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03/06/2026

What can we learn from Angela Lee?

Angela Lee lost her 18 year old sister Victoria in 2022, she retired from professional MMA in 2023 and went on to establish the mental health nonprofit organization Fightstory in honor of her sister's memory.

Life's trials have a way of testing our faith, resilience, and strength. In the midst of pain and disappointment, many are tempted to give up—on God, on their dreams, and sometimes even on life itself.

Hardship has caused countless people to walk away from their faith, withdrawing from the fight of faith and surrendering to despair. Some never find their way back, but others do—by the grace of God. Yet even those who return often hesitate to step back into the arena of life after enduring a series of painful setbacks and disappointments.

Then something remarkable happens. God begins to infuse them with fresh strength, renewed energy, and new life. Their spirits are revived. As they wait upon Him, they rise above their circumstances and soar like eagles.

For God gives power to the weary, and to those who have no strength, He increases might. What once seemed impossible becomes possible through His sustaining grace. The battle may have wounded them, but it did not defeat them. In His presence, they find the courage to fight again, believe again, and live again.

As followers of Jesus we often ask God:

👉 To remove the obstacles.
👉 To deliver us from every trial.
👉 To defeat our giants for us.
👉 To part the waters before we ever have to step into them.
👉 To save us from the fire

Yet what if the obstacle is the very thing God is using to strengthen our faith? What if the giants we face is an opportunity to discover the power of God within us? What if the waters only part after we take the first step of faith into the unknown? What if the fire is the very thing that purifies us?

Much of our spiritual growth is forged in discomfort, adversity, and perseverance. God certainly delivers, provides, and makes a way where there seems to be no way. Yet He also develops character through trials, endurance through hardship, and maturity through challenges.

Jesus reminds us that in this world we will encounter tribulations (John 16:33).

The truth is, non of us are exempt from life’s troubles believers and non believers will keep experiencing the same troubles.

In his letter to the Romans Paul encouragement

“… but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.” —Romans 5:3-4

To his son Timothy in the faith he says "You therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 2:3).

Perhaps the question is not always, "Lord, remove the trials from me," but sometimes, "Lord, what are You teaching me through it, and how will this shape me into the person You have called me to become?"

The path of growth is rarely comfortable, but it is often where faith becomes strongest and where Christ is most clearly formed in us.

Be of good cheer I have overcome the world
—John 16:33

01/06/2026

When circumstances seem louder than God's promises, choose to give His Word the final authority. Faith isn't denying the facts—it's agreeing with what God says even before you see the outcome.

The more you rehearse the problem, the bigger it becomes. The more you speak God's promises, the stronger your faith grows. Keep your words aligned with His Word and watch what He can do.

Mac Hammond

01/06/2026

The Complexity of The Human Brain

The psalmist captured a profound revelation of the intrinsic fabric of our being in Psalm 139, unveiling how intricately we were woven—formed in our inward parts and lovingly knitted together in our mother’s womb.

Such truth reveals how deeply precious we are loved and cherished by our Father, that He would create us in our mother’s womb. We are indeed God’s masterpiece, His intentional handiwork, His poem on earth.

Here are 5 key function of the Limbic System

The limbic system (often called the “emotional brain”) is a group of interconnected structures in the brain that plays a major role in:

Emotions
Memory
Motivation
Behaviour
Survival instincts

Rather than being one single “limbic brain,” it is a network of brain structures working together.

Main Functions of the Limbic System
1. Emotion Processing
The limbic system helps regulate emotions such as:

Fear
Joy
Anger
Pleasure
Anxiety
Love and attachment

A key structure here is the amygdala, which acts like an emotional alarm system—especially for fear and danger responses.

2. Memory Formation
The hippocampus helps:

Form new memories
Organize experiences
Connect emotions to memories

This is why emotionally intense events are often remembered vividly.

3. Motivation and Reward
The limbic system is involved in:

Desire
Reward
Pleasure
Reinforcement of behaviour

It helps drive behaviours related to:
Eating
Relationships
Achievement
Survival

This system is strongly connected to dopamine and reward pathways.

4. Survival Responses
The limbic system helps activate:
Fight
Flight
Freeze responses

When danger is perceived, it rapidly prepares the body to respond before the thinking part of the brain fully processes the situation.

5. Social Bonding and Attachment
It contributes to:
Empathy
Connection
Trust
Maternal bonding
Emotional relationships

This is one reason human relationships carry deep emotional significance.

Key Parts of the Limbic System
Amygdala → emotion/fear processing
Hippocampus → memory
Hypothalamus → hormones, hunger, body temperature, stress responses
Thalamus → sensory relay
Cingulate gyrus → emotional regulation and attention

30/05/2026

Context Matters

Context: The surrounding verses, historical background, and intended meaning of the original author.

29/05/2026

For God so loved the world John 3:16

What part of John 3:16 did they not understand

In 1853, a young minister named George MacDonald stood in a small church in Arundel and said something that ended his career.

He said God’s love could not be smaller than human failure. That if love is real, it cannot be selective. That no soul is beyond the reach of redemption.

The elders didn’t hear theology. They heard danger.

He was removed from his pulpit. His salary was cut. His reputation collapsed.

29, he was unemployed, sick with tuberculosis, and already coughing blood. A young father with no stable income and no place left in the only life he had trained for.

So he wrote.

Not sermons. Not defenses.

Stories.

Fairy tales filled with haunted forests, speaking landscapes, and unseen moral forces moving beneath ordinary life. Books like *Phantastes*—published to near silence.

He kept going anyway.

Through poverty. Through grief. Through the deaths of children. Through worsening illness. He wrote more than fifty books, most barely noticed in his lifetime.

He died in 1905 in Italy, far from home, largely forgotten.

He never knew what he had started.

But across the years, a boy named C. S. Lewis found one of his books in a railway stall.

Lewis had lost his mother. Lost his faith. Built walls of logic around everything he could not bear to feel.

Then he read MacDonald.

And something in him shifted.

Not argument. Not doctrine.

Recognition.

He later said it felt like his imagination had been baptized.

Lewis went on to become one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, shaping how millions understand story, faith, and meaning through *The Chronicles of Narnia*.

And Lewis had a friend—J. R. R. Tolkien—who believed something similar: that myth can carry truths too deep for plain explanation.

Tolkien’s worlds of hobbits, rings, and reluctant courage carried that same current forward.

And beneath both of them—quietly, almost invisibly—was MacDonald.

A man fired for saying love was too large to be limited.

What he lost in the moment, he planted in the long term.

You see it every time a wardrobe opens into snow. Every time a small, ordinary character chooses to carry something unbearable. Every time darkness is met not with certainty, but with stubborn hope.

28/05/2026

JESUS HATES SELLING THINGS IN CHURCH

What do most evangelicals pastors think of Jesus flipping tables in Matthew 21:12-18

Many modern sermons reduce the event that occurred in Matthew 21:12-18 to:

“Jesus hates selling things in church.”

Last night I came across a YouTuber visiting four megachurches to examine whether they were truly preaching the gospel. He visited one of the largest megachurches in America and seemed unimpressed by what he experienced.

As he walked through the church library and bookstore area, noticing the large amount of books and merchandise being sold, he commented, and I quote:

“If there was one time Jesus got mad and they were selling things, I just wonder what would happen here. This bookstore is absolutely huge.”

He also pointed out that there seemed to be only a small section dedicated to Bibles compared to the large collection of books written by the pastor himself.

Personally, I don’t think Jesus would have walked into the library and started flipping bookshelves. Honestly, seriously… nah.

The most common evangelical interpretation is:

The temple had become commercialized.
Religious leaders were exploiting worshippers financially.
Merchants and money changers turned worship into profit.
Jesus was condemning greed and irreverence in God’s house.

This is why many modern preachers apply the story to:

👉 churches selling excessive merchandise,
👉 prosperity gospel practices,
👉 manipulative fundraising,
👉 celebrity Christianity,
👉 turning ministry into business.

So yes, the statement:
“If Jesus were here today, He would flip the tables” has become a very popular evangelical slogan against perceived church commercialism.

In the study of Matthew 21:12-18 we see that the cleansing of the temple was far deeper than simply people selling items. The issue was corruption, exploitation, and the obstruction of worship — particularly in the area meant for the nations and outsiders to seek God.

I think we need to be careful not to oversimplify that moment into “Jesus gets angry whenever churches sell books or merchandise.”

28/05/2026

Temple Access and Healing

Jesus main purpose in clearing the courts of the gentiles by removing the animals and the merchants was to restore access to the presence of the Father.

1. A PLACE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS
Jesus restored the temple as a house of prayer for all people, not just for the religious or the privileged. His heart was for the nations to seek the Father as it was written in the book of Isaiah

“Even the foreigners I will bring to my holy mountains and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.” The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “Yet I will gather to him Others besides those who are gathered to him.”
—Isaiah 56:7-8

2. A PLACE OF ACCESS TO THE FATHER
By removing the barriers, Jesus made a way for the Gentiles to come near to God. The temple was never meant to exclude -it was meant to include all people.

And He (Jesus) came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
—Ephesians 2:17-18

3. A PLACE OF WHOLENESS AND HEALING
The blind and the lame came to Jesus in the temple and received their healing. Jesus came that mankind may not only pray, but also be made whole in His presence.

He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;
—Luke 4:18

Jesus didn’t only clear the way. He made a way for every human being to encounter love personified and receive salvation. He was the way to the father as he has declared in John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

We’ve misunderstood the purpose of Christ appearance by distorting it to say that Christ came so that we “could go to heaven”. The more I look into the context of Jesus message the more the eyes of my understanding is being enlightened.

To conclude this study on Matthew 21 I believe that “Jesus didn’t just make room for “prayer” He made room to salvation. Because mankind truly gain access to the Father and people are made whole.

I hope this has blessed you and help you to see the really reason why Jesus did what he did in the temple.

God bless you!

28/05/2026

The Body Is Not One Member

“For in fact the body is not one member but many.” — 1 Corinthians 12:14

I am not the whole Body of Christ on my own — I am only one member of His Body. And when one member of the Body falls, is caught in sin, or is publicly exposed, the response of the Church should not be one of pride, mockery, or self-righteous judgment.

When one part of the body hurts, the whole body should feel the pain.

This does not mean we excuse sin, ignore truth, or defend wrongdoing. Truth and accountability matter. But as believers, we must remember that restoration should always be the heart behind correction. We do not throw wounded members away because their failures have become public. We come alongside them in prayer, humility, and love, recognising that apart from the grace of God, any one of us could fall.

The Church needs to learn how to truly love like Christ loved — full of truth, yet full of mercy. Jesus never celebrated the downfall of people; He came to restore, heal, and call people back to repentance.

If one member suffers, all suffer together.

27/05/2026

Access Reinstated To God For All Nations

To understand the “why,” we first need to understand the structure of the temple itself.

Under the expansion of Herod the Great, the temple was arranged in courts according to degrees of access:

👉 Holy of Holies — only the High Priest, once a year.
👉 Holy Place — priests only.
👉 Court of Israel — Jewish men.
👉 Court of Women — Jewish women and men.
👉 Court of the Gentiles — the only area where non-Jews could come near to seek the God of Israel.

The Court of the Gentiles was specifically designed so that the nations could approach and pray to the God of Israel. This was deeply connected to God’s original intention and covenant purpose for all peoples.

The deeper I dug into this story, the more I realized that Jesus may not have merely been cleansing corruption — He may have confronted anything that hindered access to the Father for the nations.

Jesus Own Word Reveal This Truth

When Jesus overturned the tables, He quoted two passages:

1. Isaiah 56:7
“My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

This is critical.
In context, Isaiah chapter 56 is specifically about foreigners and eunuchs being welcomed into God’s covenant presence.

In verse 7- 8 we read “Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.” The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “Yet I will gather to him others besides those who are gathered to him.”

Why was access for the gentiles blocked then?

Jews and gentiles didn’t get along. Jews considered the gentiles as outcast, naming them as: unclean and dogs.

Jesus intentionally emphasises “for all nations” (or “for all peoples”).

2. Jeremiah 7:11 “Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes?

Jesus combined: inclusion of the nations with condemnation of sectarianism, religious control, traditions, nationalism and corruption.

The irony is powerful:
👍 God was gathering foreigners.

👎 Religion was excluding them.

👍 God was welcoming seekers.

👎 Religious pride was building barriers.

👍 God includes All people.

So the issue was not merely commerce itself — the root issue was that the commercial transaction was obstructing the gentiles to gain access to the presence of God in the temple.

P.S In the story of the tax collector and the Pharisee we noticed that the tax collector “stood afar off” (Luke 18:10-18)

The temple hierarchy allowed:
👉 money changers
👉 animal sellers
👉 sacrificial tradings

This place was likely extremely noisy and congested, imagine walking into a busy and over crowded space with people shouting over each other. I think it would be very overwhelming especially if you can’t get access to where you want to go.

Jesus wasn’t clearing the way merely to restore religious order, he was prophetically revealing:

❤️ God’s heart for all nations
👉 The failure of corrupt religion
👉 Injustice against the gentiles
🏛️ He was the true temple (John 2:19)

Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
—John 2:19

According to Gospel of John, He was speaking of His body.

Through Christ finish work:
👉 Jew and Gentile now have equal access to the Father- (Ep 2:17-18, Ep 3:12)
👉 The dividing wall is removed- (Ephesians 2:14)
👉 The “house of prayer for all nations” becomes fulfilled in Him and in His people Isaiah 56:8

As Paul’s letter to the Ephesians saints says:
“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one…”
— Ephesians 2:14

Context is everything!

The Court of the Gentiles is highly significant in understanding why Jesus overturned the tables and why he used a whip in this situation. His actions were not random anger; they were a prophetic confrontation against anything that hindered access to the Father, especially for the nations God desired to welcome.

TBC

26/05/2026

Is the clearing of the temple an act of love?

We do not get to redefine love to suit our own humanistic views….. it avoids truth to keep the peace, refuses correction in the name of acceptance, confuses affirmation with love and priorities feelings over transformation.

In that sense love get reduced to: “ I won’t challenge you, because I don’t want to lose you.” But biblically, that’s not love— that’s fear of conflict or desire for approval and Jesus didn’t, he wasn’t tolerant towards corruption and wickedness.

Love drives out corruption and darkness to make way for truth and light.

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