Lockdown Day 14: SHEDDING ILLUSIONS
How overwhelmingly comforting to know that in the midst of a shaken world, God remains unshaken.
Lockdown Day 13: FROM DISAPPOINTMENT TO DISILLUSIONMENT
The Palm Sunday story displays the transition from expectation to disappointment in technicolour.
Lockdown Day 12: RISING EXPECTATIONS
Christ never saw himself as a victim but as a servant. The apostles never saw their persecution (or lock-down) as a conspiracy but as a blessing.
Lockdown Day 11: THE DOPAMINE ROLLER COASTER
In times of difficulty, God offers us his presence, not a parachute
Lockdown Day 10: THE DIVINE GIFT OF DISILLUSIONMENT
Palm Sunday 2020 – not what we expected. But neither did the first “Palm Sunday” deliver on the expectations of the crowds.
Lockdown Day 9: THE CORONA COCOON
The full extent of God’s creative objective sometimes takes place in the cocoon of pain and transformation.
Lockdown Day 8: FORENSIC FAITH
One of the sad consequences of the Corona pandemic is the multitude of hoaxes that are penetrating vulnerable hearts and how deceptively and cunningly the enemy is in drawing our attention away from what really matters.
Lockdown Day 7: THE BALLROOM AND THE BALCONY
The reality in life is that we will only see what we give attention to.
Lockdown Day 5: FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31