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23/08/2026

**The Best Response to School Shootings Is More Than Police Deployment**

When tragedy strikes our schools, the immediate response is understandably to increase police presence, strengthen security, and protect our students. These measures are necessary—but they address the **symptoms**, not necessarily the **root of the problem**.

Security can stop a shooter at the door.
But what stops a troubled heart from becoming a shooter in the first place?

**Prevention must go deeper than protection.**

We need to look seriously at the decline of moral values, the breakdown of families, the loss of respect for human life, and the growing absence of spiritual guidance in the lives of our young people.

And this is where the **Church has a role to play.**

Instead of waiting for young people to come to our churches, perhaps we should find meaningful, lawful, and respectful ways to **bring the message of Christ, compassion, forgiveness, responsibility, and the value of human life into our communities and schools.**

Not to impose religion, but to **restore hope, build character, strengthen families, mentor young people, and help form a culture where every life is valued.**

Police can provide protection.
Counselors can provide intervention.
Schools can provide education.
Families can provide guidance.

But the Church can help address the **heart and soul of the community.**

If we want safer schools, we cannot only ask, *“How do we stop the next shooter?”*

We must also ask:

**“How do we prevent the next troubled heart from becoming one?”**

The answer is not only more security.

**It is prevention. It is character. It is community. It is family. And it is bringing hope back to the hearts of our young people.**

> **“Train up a child in the way he should go…” — Proverbs 22:6**

Let us not wait for another tragedy before we take action.

**Protect the schools. Strengthen the families. Reach the youth. Restore hope. Address the root.**

27/06/2026

28/02/2026

✨ 1-Minute Daily Devotion | Romans 8:38–39

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come… nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Today, walk confidently. You are loved with a love that cannot be broken.

27/02/2026

God's love is all over the Bible :)

For Valentine's Day, I don't think there is anything better that I could post than the fact that God loves you. The Bible declares it over and over, and there are too many verses to list. I hope that is your encouragement for today :)

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. (1st John 4:16)

27/02/2026

📖 1-Minute Bible Reading | Romans 5:8

“But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Today, rest in this truth:
You are loved not because you are good,
but because God is good.

19/02/2026

GOSPEL IS OFFENSIVE

The Gospel can be confronting.
Whenever we faithfully proclaim the truth of God’s Word, we must understand that not everyone will receive it comfortably. The message of Christ does more than inspire — it searches the heart.

Truth comforts the broken.
Truth corrects the wandering.

And sometimes, truth wounds before it heals.

One beautiful Sunday morning, I preached on a sensitive issue — addressing homosexuality in light of Scripture and what the Bible teaches about holiness, repentance, and God’s design.

I referenced S***m and Gomorrah as a biblical example.

My intention was never to condemn. It was to remain faithful to God’s Word and to call every one of us — myself included — to walk in obedience to Him.

That week, I learned that a father who heard the message confronted his children who were practicing homosexuality and urged them to change their ways.

The following week, that family stopped attending church.

As a pastor, moments like this are heavy. My heart is never to push people away, but to lead them closer to Christ. Yet Scripture reminds us that the Gospel both invites and confronts.

Jesus was full of grace and truth.
He loved deeply — yet He never compromised truth.
He welcomed sinners — yet He always called them to transformation.

My calling is not to please everybody, but to speak the truth in love — not harshly, not arrogantly, but humbly and prayerfully.

And trust that the Holy Spirit is the One who convicts, restores, and transforms.

Still, no matter how gently truth is spoken, it will offend those who resist it. Light exposes darkness.

And exposure can feel uncomfortable before it becomes freeing.

We continue to pray for every family. We believe God’s grace is greater than every struggle. His mercy is sufficient. His arms remain open to all who come to Him in repentance and faith.

The Gospel may offend —

but it is also the power of God unto salvation.

And that is why we must continue to preach it,
even someone might be offended. - Shalom

18/02/2026

📖1-Minute Daily Devotion | Proverbs 16:28

“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.”

If we want to protect relationships, we must guard our tongue.

Today, refuse to entertain or spread gossip. Choose to speak life instead.

15/02/2026

📖 1-Minute Bible Reading | Lamentations 3:22–23

“The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
His mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.”

You may run out of strength—
but God never runs out of compassion.

14/02/2026

✨ 1-Minute Bible Reading | 1 John 4:9–11

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” (

Today remember:
You love best when you remember how deeply you are loved. 💛