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Flash 22: Defend and Extend

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Greetings dear reader,  As we progress with the year 2025, here are a few thoughts for our consideration.  One of the inescapable realities of Christian life is that of warfare. Having been born again, we enjoy peace with God but we automatically attract enmity from the devil. He is constantly stalking and plotting against us. Like a master predator, he is always studying and marking us his targets, looking for vulnerable points through which to launch his attacks. His mission? To steal, kill and destroy. Knowing that, we cannot afford to be casual in our approach to his attacks. Rather, we need to gird up our minds and our spirits, always ready to fight back, in what the bible calls the good fight of faith. We need to settle it in our minds that we will not take the fight sitting down in our comfort zones, but that we will fight tooth and nail until we have the victory. Our mission? To possess, defend and extend. Like Jephthah, let we seek to be intentional in ...
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Memento Mori: Living on 'Borrowed' Time

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Apart from carrying the hopes of new beginnings and better days ahead, New Years also have embedded within their depths the subtle yet powerful message of our mortality. The constant ebbing and flowing of days bear the latin tidings "Memento Mori" which translates "remember you must die." Of course most of us approach the subject of our death with foreboding. We think that thoughts on the brevity of our lives and the inevitability of our death to be too dark and dull, and can only yield frustrations and attract 'negative energy' around us.  However, I'm coming to understand that thoughts on our mortality are like the proverbial "apple a day" that keeps the doctor away. A healthy consciousness of our mortality helps to keep us on the straight and narrow path of purpose. It equips us with the wisdom to chip away at the vain phantoms and excesses that plague our existence, until all is that is left is a purposeful, meaningful and etern...
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New Years Message 🙂

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Happy New Year dear F.O.T Readers!  I hope this new year finds you well and sufficiently recalibrated, ready to take on the journey ahead of us.  For this post, I want to write about something that has been brewing in my mind about "the New Year". During this season, one of the most common phrases used is 'starting over' and 'new beginnings'... From our New Year resolution lists to church sermons and commercial postings, the motifs of "starting over" and "new beginnings" are not to be missed. Not to mention the pressure that is usually placed upon the masses to "start something new". In this 'starting over' camp there's usually that group of people who are starting over on unfinished projects, goals, and tasks that were left along the way from the previous years. Then there are those that are beginning afresh that which they've never done before, and finally, there's that curious lot who ironically 'start ...
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