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Parenting Teens in a Sexual Age (Part 4): Practical Tips
The previous article gave you as a parent the biblical framework for having conversations on sexuality with your teen. This article deals with making it practical. Here are some practical steps that you can take to talk about sexuality with the wisdom of God: Use God’s word as you counsel – Your primary function as…
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Parenting Teens in a Sexual Age (Pt 3): Biblical View
The Bible is the authority for the Christian life. Without the Bible the Christian is like a soldier withot a commander – he remains in darkness, confusion and chaos. That is what happens when we approach the topic of sexuality by our own wisdom. Fortunately, the Bible has a lot to say about this important…
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Parenting Teens in a Sexual Age (Pt 2): Definition of Key Terms
As a parent, I don’t know where to begin. This article, which is a part of the “Parenting Teens in a Sexual Age” series seeks to give you a pocket handbook of key terms that are used in the contemporary area of sex and sexuality. You can find the links to the other articles at…
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Parenting Teens in a Sexual Age (Pt 1): The Kenyan Scene
One of the most common issues that adolescents face is sexuality and reproductive health issues. This is because adolescence is a stage of transition from childhood to adulthood. Adolescence therefore involves exploration, self-discovery, increasing cognitive, physical and emotional development. YOUTH AND SEXUALITY IN KENYA Sexuality issues are common among young people. In general, women and…
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3 Essentials for the African Apologist
The need for apologetics is clear. Racial and political tensions in the United States (2020-2021) has led to the rise of urban apologetics – apologetics that speaks to the practical issues that face the society, especially inner-city neighborhoods. The reason for this move is that classical apologetics speaks to intellectual arguments that may not be…
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4 Reasons you should Go back to Church
When you are tempted to add a new tab to join your online worship gathering, do the even better thing of gathering physically. Your growth in grace is dependent on it. . .
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5 Questions of Faith that Parents must Answer – Part 2
I am a firm believer that discipleship of the next generations will flourish when parents and families are central. In Part 1 of this series, I made the case for why family worship is important and how to go about it. As parents go on with nurturing the faith of their “little church” aka families,…
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4 Things about Family Worship – Part 1
I have become convinced that the family is the first Church. Among the fondest memories I have of my extended family is the visits to my great-grandparents. My guka (great-grandfather) Kaguti, was among the first Christians in his locality. When we would gather at his, and cucu (great-grandmother) Wamaitha’s place, he would teach us (their…
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The Hole in our Holiness
The reason we are half-hearted in our discussion about and pursuit of holiness is the gap between our passion and our pursuit. Kevin DeYoung, a minister and favorite writer of mine, seeks to help us think through this hallmark of the Christian faith. In my Christian life and ministry experience, I have come across several…
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Review of John Piper, Coronavirus and Christ (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020)
By Kevin Muriithi John Piper is one of the most influential pastors of our time. What characterizes his ministry is passionate zeal, theological depth, biblical engagement and pastoral application. The gift of technology has allowed Christians all over the world, including fellow Christians and their leaders in Africa and Kenya, my home country, to benefit…
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How the Psalms are an Antidote for the Suffering Saint
I have often returned to the Psalms during troubling times. When some of my seasons have been dark, the Psalms have been a balm for my weary soul. The same book that often declares God’s greatness is the same book that captures the suffering saint’s refrain: How long O Lord? When I lost my brother…
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Recommended Books on Apologetics in Africa
Apologetics Kenya is a ministry that was co-founded to equip believers in the African church and to engage skeptics through answering the big questions of life within a Christian worldview in the African context. We have been engaging in monthly fora since 2017 and have recorded some of our fora on our YouTube channel. One…
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BOOK 2 EXCERPT – A Taste of We Travelled Africa
By Grace. That’s how they arrived at this point. A deep common consciousness pervaded the three of them, reflected clearly in their nonchalant faces: Easy, genuine smiles; affirming abstract understandings and upright, cool, calm and collected demeanours. Their cumulative age, one hundred and sixty-five years, to be exact, intertwined many stories between the three men.…
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My Top Apps and Sites for Spiritual Growth
Is technology good or bad? I think that the better question we can ask is how can we use technology for our spiritual growth. Time in the Word, Fellowship, and Prayer bears a lot of spiritual fruit in the long run for the follower of Jesus Christ. This has been true in my life. Since…
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Exploring Distorted Gospels in Africa
While some churches enjoy a healthy diet of gospel truth, many other churches in Africa are malnourishing Christ’s chosen people. And because the body is very dynamic, it can get used to bad diet. Eventually, bad diets have an uncanny way of eating the body from inside, leading to health problems. Starvation could follow, which…
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Can I Lose my Salvation? Pondering on Joshua Harris
Can my faith in Jesus Christ one day wane to the point of rejecting Christ? This is a jarring question. At least for me. It is one, which in the wake of the decisions by two prominent Christian leaders has caused several responses. Having championed the purity culture that has been a foundational understanding of…
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Theological foundations for youth ministry
“Passy (pastor), isn’t Moses the one who wrote Deuteronomy?” A teenager genuinely asked me during a teens discipleship programme in April 2019 in the city of Nairobi, in a peri-urban town about twenty minutes by public transport from the Central Business District. Because of our Presbyterian esteem of God’s Word, I hesitantly responded, “yes, Moses…
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Making Sense of Suffering
“You haven’t heard what has happened?” This is a response that causes the hairs on my nape to rise. I received it in March, after the plane carrying my uncle from a business trip in Italy went down in Ethiopia, leaving no survivors. It is a response I received less than a year ago through…
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Youth Culture, Gospel and Mission
What should the church in Africa be ultimately concerned with? This is a question that consumes me. The reason is that I think because the Church is the Steward of the gospel, true transformation in the lives of Africans depends on it. Today, this exploration was deepened through a public lecture at the Hekima Institute…
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Being African, From Africa
“This sound is heard in Somalia, Sudan and Senegal it is heard in Gambia Ghana and Gabon in Niger, Nigeria and Namibia in Madagascar, Mali and Morocco it is heeeaard, in Zimbabwe, and indeed in mother Zambia” Their sound blasted through the atmosphere, reaffirming and retracing their African identity. Their attire was as colorful as…
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