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Virtues, Updated version.

  This overwrites everything. Here's how I intend to live. ...Man, know thyself. I do not say I want to be perfect. but these are virtues I aspire to attain. To be my guiding principles to achieve a life worth living. 1. Taste: Be strong about things you like, don't let external influence drown out your inner voice, consistently aspire to attain the best of things, expose yourself to the best quality to the level you can afford. Never settle for mediocre things. It comes down to taste. 2. Order: Everything must have its own place, always fight against entropy, chaos is the enemy don't tolerate it, it will kill good things. 3. Do what you say: Always do what you said you'd do, what is the power in your words if you won't do what you resolve to do? 4. Eat Good: Eat food as medicine, a lot depends on your gut. Your gut depends on your food. Never eat to dullness, or get drunk. 5. Never Get Used: Don't allow yourself to be used by anyone or an institution. Be sure y...

Project Success Algorithm

 I think what separates the successful causes and projects and those that don't are several factors. And intelligence is not part. The ability to plan, the ability to be organized, the ability to execute the plans because you trust it counts. Then repeat the process, while removing what doesn't work. Then handling relationships. Planning. I think it's just doing guesswork, asking yourself, questioning and giving honest answers with dates and deadlines. Total costs, funding etc Organizing. Make sure all plans are well drawn, and bring everything to one place, where they're supposed to be. Making arrangements for procurement, making sure things are easy for the team or yourself during execution. An intensional effort to reduce chaos.  Execution. Doing the work, doing what you said you'd do at the planning stage at the said dates and before the deadlines, just doing it. No excuses, something came up, just doing as promised. Doing it with some crazy intensity. Only cros...

Entropy, order and disorder

A lot of things in the world depend on our ability to work against disorder, the default state of the world and things in it is chaos, eventually, everything will lose its hotness and bend towards coldness and decay. The only time you can do anything meaningful is when you become orderly. Put a lot of intentional energy into planning; planning depends on your ability to have clarity of mind to be organized.

Maybe, I'm back

 It's been so long, but most important thing is. I'm back. Lots of things have happened, good friends lost. I almost married someone out of pressure. Built a publishing business accidentally which manages about 5 websites on 5 different fields. A lot has happened. I thought I would never write again. I'm glad to be writing. I want to write about,  having potential. There's this thing about having potential which can become your main blockage to succeed. Because you may end up living in your head about a bright future, which has not arrived and may cause you to relax.  You know my biggest fear? It's not that I would loose my businessss or investments. My biggest fear is that I may end up not living up to expectations. And it will be like "Oh he had so much potential" but what happened?  I've been reflecting on this issue for long. This subject has been on my mind since last month and I've been digesting it. I came to conclusion that to fight against...

Reformation Day, thoughts on The Reformed Church in Ghana

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 “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”” ‭‭John‬ ‭4:24‬ ‭ESV‬‬ Last time I wrote something about reformation for reformation day was two years ago.  Yesterday I had a lengthy discussion with a friend on phone about the state of the reformed church in Ghana and why there’s great need for reform theology in our churches. So when I woke up, I decided to write some thoughts down in my google keep app but now I think I have published it as an article. The resurgence. There’s a lot happening right now, young people are discovering Dr. MacArthur’s grace to you podcast, People are reading Spurgeon, Paul washer’s famous the youth shocking message is getting replayed, people are doing zoom meetings to discuss Luther’s 95 thesis and it’s reflection on the modern church, people are downloading RefNet radio, RC Sproul’s ligonier app is being installed, apologetics are being done on Facebook, etc but nobody is paying attention to it, mainstream media is...

Worship the Lord in Spirit, Thoughts on RevAkua exposition on Teni for your Case Song

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  God is Holy, and the only consumer of our worship or service is God. Not us. The purpose of worship is for God, God Alone. So the music and other tools are supposed to be holy that is theologically sound. I don’t have a problem with Christians singing love songs, no there’s nothing wrong with love songs. God is love there are books in the Bible dedicated for love but I didn’t say “lust” songs. In our modern world we Christians should be careful with songs we call love songs. Back to the narrative. RevAkua got it wrong. You can’t do an exposition on a worldly song. Are you done expositing the Bible? Or even the Hymns, or Hillsong or Elevation worship or worst of all, Bethel music? Maybe firstlove’s Aida. The song, for your case” has cursing in it and the one true God who is the consumer of our service or worship will not like it since he has commanded believers not to use curse language. The problem is not charismatics or one-man churches. The problem is that the church in Ghana c...

18 Thoughts on Tongues: The gift of tongues speaking

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 Tongues. So back in Presec Legon and later at the University, I realized something fascinating. When I was in Form1 and not really a Christian, I normally went to these places for prayers either alone or for congregational prayers. I observed what I may want to call “Rhythmic Prayers” or “Jama Tongues”.  You will find people in a circle with their hands around each other or in a circle clapping and saying some repetitive things. So there is a call and a response during such prayer meetings. So Yesterday I was having a Christian Fellowship discussion with some brothers in the Reformed faith and this thing popped up. Here are some observations From the various campus prayer meetings in Ghana: 1. There was a group in UCC called Agapao Ministries. There was this leader who will always say “Yagayaga” and the rest will respond “pao”. They could do this for hours! Was all “Yagayaga” and “pao”. 2. At Science Gardens in UCC, you will hear “montie” and they respond “yate ooo” 3. Perhap...