Students and families are skipping meals. This is the reality of how tough the cost of living crisis has hit us today. Looking to the future, you may be thinking of how you can circumvent any personal financial issues that could rise.‘How should I manage my money during this financial crisis?’, you may ask. Let’s see what money management from a Biblical perspective looks like so that we don’t lose our way in the current economic upheavals. But before we look at money management, we need to ... VIEW POST
Money Management from a Biblical Perspective
23 Bible Verses About Planning (The Right Way)
‘Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”’ (Job 42:2, ESV). What a conclusion from Job! What do we take away from this verse?... As we will be looking into the Bible verses about planning, let’s learn from Job, who said this after God asked him many questions such as, ‘“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you ... VIEW POST
Spiritual Growth: 5 Ways to Grow Spiritually
Goal setting and new year resolutions tend to occupy people’s minds when a year comes to an end. A new year is often seen as a time to reset or refresh with brand-new goals. A fellow Christian once posed this question, ‘How should we, as Christians, set spiritual goals for the new year?’ The simplest answer is that our focus should mainly be to aim for spiritual growth at any time of our lives and not wait until new year's eve or the month of January. Spiritual growth leads to spiritual ... VIEW POST
Christmas Stress: How to Avoid Being Stressed during Christmas
‘According to Britons who celebrate Christmas, the most anxiety-inducing festive activities are thinking about what Christmas presents to buy (46% say it’s stressful), how much it costs to buy them (45%) and having to shop for them in the first place (44%). This puts present-buying on a par with the financial impact of Christmas in general (42% find stressful).’ (Kirk, 2021). Do you fall into any one of the above YouGov statistics? Have you lately been experiencing Christmas stress? Today, ... VIEW POST
35 Bible Verses about Stress (Anxiety, Fear and Worry)
A survey conducted in 2020, which involved 1,815 employed British people, discovered that the predominant type of stress was work-related, followed by financial, family, health and relationship stress (Perkbox, 2022). This survey presents to us the reality that stress is not something to be ignored since it impacts the main areas of our daily lives. As Christians, we have a powerful weapon against stress and that is the Word of God. Today, we will explore several Bible verses about stress to ... VIEW POST
Enduring Suffering as a Christian
We live in a world where Christian suffering is present in all shapes and forms. According to Open Doors (2022), ‘At least 360 million Christians around the world experience high levels of persecution and discrimination. That’s an astonishing 1 in 7 of the global Christian population.’ Suffering as a Christian must not be seen as something strange or unexpected. ‘For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him but also to suffer on His behalf,’ (Philippians 1:29, ... VIEW POST