Secular artists singing gospel: is that okay?
THE RECENT release of a gospel song by international recording artist Kandi Burruss, “Prayed Up”, has raised eyebrows at home and abroad.
Honouring your parents
Honour thy father and mother That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
What is love?
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Embracing the season of Lent
THE 40 Day period from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday known as lent officially began yesterday with many Christians giving up personal pleasures as a form of penitence.
God's plan and purpose for the family
The home is the first church a child should experience. It is a place to be presented to God for blessing, to be taught to pray as Jesus taught his disciples and to learn how to listen for God’s voice like Samuel.
Nothing impossible
THE lesson to be learnt from the story about the virgin Mary becoming pregnant with Jesus Christ, is with God nothing shall be impossible.
A God moment
I HAVE always been an avid church goer, but not just for the sake of going.
Miss Clara remembered as a true woman of faith
IT HAS been a year since Clarabell Hanna-Williams passed away, but the sting of her death is still felt by her eight children, other relatives and friends.
Baptist youth hold leadership symposium
YOUNG CHRISTIANS are staying true and dedicated to their beliefs, as they work towards making themselves better leaders in church and community, according to Rev Ellerston Smith, youth minister at St Johns Native Baptist Cathedral.
Minister Uhijah turns 100
MINISTER Uhijah Johnson has lived through two world wars; witnessed the defining shift in power to the black majority in the Bahamas and saw the birth of a nation in 1973. The celebrated centenarian has seen much, but remains in awe of the many blessings he has received.
Funeral home adds 'green-burning' crematorium
CEDAR Crest and Yager Funeral Homes and Crematorium recently commissioned its newest crematorium, a state of the art “green-burning” unit at Cedar Crest Funeral Home on Robinson Road and First Street. This new crematorium has been designed using the latest technology available with a specific focus on the environment.
Bahamian gospel musicians take talent international
BAHAMIAN gospel singers who signed distribution deals with management group KLR Management are on their way to being heard on the international scene.
A charge to keep
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (Matt 28:19)
Finding true love
As mentioned in my previous meditation, all the other loves of life will make sense and fall into their rightful place when we realize that we cannot become who God intends us to become without the lord.
Community programme seeks to give direction to youth
STEERING the lives of young people in the right direction is at the core of a mentoring program recently launched.
