My Life’s Journey with Dr Voddie Baucham Jr

One week ago, Voddie Baucham Jr breathed his last and was no more because God took him away from us. When I got the news the following morni...

Saidi Francis Chishimba—The Photographer Par Excellence

Two weeks ago, on Wednesday morning 16 July 2025, I got a crushing message from Metternick, Saidi Chishimba’s brother. It simply said, “My b...

COVID-19 series, #18: Are you ready to die?

19 Pastoral Thoughts on COVID-19 “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain…My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that ...

COVID-19 series, #17: Do not waste your COVID-19 experience

19 Pastoral Thoughts on COVID-19 COVID-19 series, #17: Do not waste your COVID-19 experience “When a scoffer is punished, the simp...

COVID-19 series, #16: Faith healers—the elephant in the room

19 Pastoral Thoughts on COVID-19 “And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, ‘I will; be clean.’ And immediately the le...

COVID-19 Series: #15—Let us shout, “O COVID-19, where is your sting?”

19 Pastoral Thoughts On COVID-19 Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he ...

COVID-19 Series: #13—Calamities call for times of self-humiliation

19 Pastoral Thoughts On COVID-19 “And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete dest...

COVID-19 Series: #12—How can a God of love allow COVID-19?

19 Pastoral Thoughts On COVID-19 “Cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns a...

COVID-19 Series: #11—Our past sufferings should make us sympathetic

19 Pastoral Thoughts On COVID-19 “Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt” (Deut. 10:19). ...

COVID-19 Series: #7—There, but for the grace of God, go I

19 Pastoral Thoughts On COVID-19 “For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the churc...

COVID-19 Series: #2—Pain is God’s megaphone

19 Pastoral Thoughts On COVID-19 Megaphone icon (vector PSD)   from   365psd.com “Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fe...

COVID-19 Series: #1—What’s God got to do with it?

(19 Pastoral Thoughts On COVID-19) “I am the LORD, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and ...

The death of a pet

A few days ago I stood by my study window and saw our youngest daughter, Mwape, standing helplessly as she saw her pregnant dog, Chelsea...