I think what makes this story more depressing & alarming than him being an “American Idol alum” is that Caleb Flynn was a worship pastor.
And despite having a wife & two children, something many men long for, Flynn decided he wanted more than what God gave him.
He started having an affair with a woman at his church. Text messages show that they became obsessed with each other, & Flynn began to despise his wife.
But despite hating his wife, Flynn refused to divorce her because he didn’t want to lose his kids, his reputation, nor his job (his father-in-law gave him a job working for him). But his affair partner would not keep seeing him unless they divorced, so he decided to murder his wife.
It’s a devastating reminder of what sin takes from us. Caleb went from lust, to betrayal, to adultery, to murder.
And now his wife is dead. His children are without both parents. His affair partner has been exposed and her life is ruined. And of course, Caleb ruined his own life.
“Sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”
The transportation ministers must go. Done zero about the long queues for intra-city buses. And then they’ve doing absolutely nothing about commercial drivers sticking to the agreed 8% fare increase. Some are charging in excess of 30%
The Government has lost control over the Transport Sector.
These drivers are charging nothing less than 20% after Government announced an 8% increment in fares.
No Government communicator should go sit at n TV and run this 8% gimmick.
Modern-day feminism fights imaginary battles and creates conflict where there should be none. It seems to have completely derailed from some of its original tenets and turned into simply fighting men.
If they are not fighting over whether women should cook for their men, they are fighting over whose name a child should bear. But you hardly see the same energy when it comes to women sponsoring weddings or demanding that financial responsibilities be 50/50. I mean, who pays the piper dictates the tune. If you genuinely want equality, start with finances. You cannot insist on maintaining every traditional role that benefits you and suddenly cry injustice when it comes to the ones that do not.
By the way, there are places where I genuinely expect feminists to channel this energy. I have been seeing the conversations around fake menstrual pads and suggestions that women should start using menstrual cups instead. I expected to see protests. Women’s voices can be very powerful when that energy is channelled into issues that actually affect women’s lives. Organise a protest at the NAFDAC office. Host spaces. Use the media. Create enough pressure for the issue to receive serious attention.
Push for women to have the sole consent to opt for a CS delivery during childbirth without hospitals necessarily prioritising the husband’s decision. Rally around the issue of child marriage, especially in Northern Nigeria, and put pressure on lawmakers to act. There are countless things feminism can actually achieve.
We now have women who have attained the highest levels of education. Use that education and influence to speak on genuine women’s rights that are still unmet, the safety and protection of women, and the welfare of the girl child.
Yet many accounts here that identify as feminists and proudly put it in their bios have not done a single thing to help the girl child. You hardly see them lend their voices when a conversation requires an actual feminist movement. But once the conversation becomes about hating men, attacking men, or pushing a gender war, they suddenly discover their most vociferous voices.
If feminism is really about improving women’s lives, then there should be far more to it than constantly finding new battles with men.
Você provavelmente já ouviu dizer: "Beba água, mesmo quando não estiver com sede."
Hoje eu lhe digo:
"Ore, mesmo quando você não estiver com vontade." Porque, assim como seu corpo precisa de água, sua alma precisa de Deus.
🇬🇭 TRAFFITECH-GH cameras will start full enforcement from 1 October 2026. One penalty unit is GH₵12.
Fines and possible imprisonment
1. Using a phone while driving — up to GH₵600; up to 3 months
2. Drink or drug driving — GH₵600 to GH₵2,400; up to 40 months
3. Jumping a red light — GH₵120 to GH₵360; up to 30 days
4. Street or drag racing /Speeding— GH₵120 to GH₵300; up to 30 days
5. Parking in a disability bay — up to GH₵300; up to 8 months
6. Operating a TV monitor while driving — up to GH₵300; up to 30 days
7. Okada or aboboyaa operating without authorisation — operator GH₵600 to GH₵1,200, up to 24 months; rider GH₵300 to GH₵600, up to 8 months
8. Overcharging passengers — GH₵120 to GH₵300; up to 30 days
9 Boarding or alighting at the wrong place — up to GH₵60; up to 7 days
10. Jaywalking or refusing to use a footbridge — GH₵60; up to 7 days
11. Preaching or hawking in a moving trotro or bus — GH₵120 to GH₵600; up to 8 months
12. Selling goods on the road or walkway — up to GH₵600; up to 3 months
13. Washing or repairing a vehicle on the road — up to GH₵300; up to 30 days
Camera penalties under TRAFFITECH-GH:
1st to 3rd offence — GH₵120
4th offence — GH₵180
5th offence — GH₵240
A sixth offence within 24 months may lead to court action and licence suspension or revocation for at least 12 months, with retraining and retesting.
Camera notices will be issued to the registered owner of the vehicle.
If you listen to Cain, he will tell you that righteous Abel was the problem.
If you listen to Potiphar’s wife, she will tell you that righteous Joseph was the wicked man.
If you listen to Pharaoh, he will tell you that Moses was an enemy of the state.
If you listen to Saul, he will tell you that loyal David was a traitor.
If you listen to Haman, he will convince you that Mordecai was a dangerous enemy.
If you listen to Ahab and Jezebel, they will tell you that Elijah, the prophet of God, was the troublemaker.
If you listen to the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, they will tell you that the sinless Jesus was a blasphemer.
If you listen to Judas Iscariot, he will find a way to justify betrayal.
If you listen to Pontius Pilate, he will wash his hands while Truth stands directly in front of him.
And if you listen to the world, do not be surprised when it calls righteousness evil and evil good.
My friends, listen carefully: a lie does NOT become Truth simply because it is repeated loudly, confidently, or by powerful people.
Be careful what you hear.
Be careful whom you believe.
Be careful whom you follow.
Test everything by the Word of God.
The world may condemn you for standing for Biblical Truth but the only verdict that ultimately matters is His!!!
Stand firm. Stand faithful. And above all, listen to Jesus.
The gospel is meant to be preached and believed, meaning you will look for people, open your mouth, and tell them the good news.
We weren’t instructed to shift culture through influence and money. It rarely even happens, and when it does, people may end up believing the wrong thing. The way the apostles shifted the culture, that is, “turned the world upside down,” was through the preaching of the gospel.
Times have changed, but the power of the gospel is still in opening your mouth to preach it.
how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??
cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.
goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.
monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???
birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.
there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.
squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.
and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???
your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???
the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.
I’M SORRY?????
we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????
“I was not my own initiative.
I could not have willed myself into being. I could not have had the raw materials necessary for my own formation, my Lord.
I was your idea, and you never have bad ideas. You put your idea of me in motion and let me in on it.
All the bad that has befallen me has emerged when I have veered off your idea of me, my Lord.
I am your initiative. You stood fully complete and fully joyous and willed me into being: exactly the way you wanted.
I could have been a donkey, a fish, or a lion. But your idea was for me to be a man: in your image, to breathe, jump, run, write, face you, and participate in your greatness.
May your intentions for me always supersede my intentions for myself. Since I am not my own idea and only participate in expressing yours, let me see where the full expression of your idea leads.
Let me see the unraveling of this mystery. Lead me, my Lord, to your imperishable glory.
Amen.”
Marry someone who views marriage as a covenant, not a temporary agreement. This person fears God, so it’s the covenant over temptation, the covenant over difficult seasons, the covenant over conflict, and the covenant over anything life throws at them.
This sentiment about the downgrade of our local streetfoods in favour of profiteering and convenience is something I agree with. People are cutting corners to overprice food.
2 years since we started my bible study group, meeting 3x every week. there has never been a day when the Lord did not show up in our midst. we can be faithful because He is faithful.
On Sunday, while in the bus on my way to church, something happened that tested my Christian resolve.
The driver asked for money, and he specifically asked that it start from the back seat.
I was beside him, so I thought he would get to me. But he didn't.
Suddenly, he yelled at me, saying I was the one who had thrown him into confusion by not paying.
I was enraged and triggered. I was visibly angry, my heart racing, my brows furrowed, and I was ready to erupt.
Immediately, the Holy Spirit said, “You are a Christian; you are a Christian.”
You cannot imagine how much I wanted to clear myself because he had accused me wrongly and yelled at me.
I wanted to angrily defend my pride. But the Spirit stopped me.
It wasn't easy, guys. I literally pressed my lips, and they were shaking because I was holding the anger in.
But I successfully did it. I kept my peace, and the anger quickly vanished within seconds.
I gained Christ. I died to my flesh at that moment and gained the life of Christ.
Those who are in Christ must live this way. This is what it means to be members of the kingdom of God.
Paul says:
“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.” — Ephesians 4:1–2
And again:
“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.”
— Ephesians 4:31
Those who are of Christ must live by Christ. Be led by the Spirit as sons of God.
Amen.
There is a Chinese bio-methanol and ethanol manufacturing company (let's call it SBML) located in Juapong within the North Tongu Constituency of the Volta Region in Ghana. Information reaching me from farmers in the district is that the company has stopped buying fresh cassava from the enclave and now buys from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Togo.
This may be due to the exchange rate and the fact that they get it cheaper from the neighboring countries. The company was previously buying from farmers in the locality when the cedi was trading at GH¢15–GH¢16 to the dollar.
At that time, they were buying from the farmers at GH¢1,200 per ton, which was very favorable.
Currently, the farmers are experiencing losses and can tell you factually that the company is NOT buying at all.