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When God’s grace pours, it rains with blessings. How do you handle those blessings? Oooh, they can also lead to your downfall. What levels are you willing to go to stand by the Christian values and beliefs that you subscribe to? What sacrifices are you willing to make? This is the story of my favourite gospel Music Group, the Maverick Music City, and the expulsion of one of their lead singers – Dante Bowe. First, who is Maverick Music City? They are a worship collective that has taken the Christian music industry by storm with songs like "Jireh," and "Promises", which have 106 million and 92 million views on YouTube respectively. They are a group from the famous Elevation Church that is led by Pastor Steve Furtick. The group has got four Grammy nominations and won one. This is a very great fete if you consider that the group was just founded in 2019. If you put in the covid19 pandemic that shook the world in 2021, then they have been here just for 2 years. ...

I do like having conversations with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. One great lesson I have always learned is to listen to the intent of the conversation away from the sideshows. This explains why in my writings I have the ability to quote some of the conversation intents.  One evening I join some good friends for a cup of coffee and as it happens with good friends you get an opportunity to discuss everything and anything. So on this day, we discussed everything and everything but the most important bit of the conversation was "your greatest test will be how you react after people with whom you had good intentions mishandled you." This was one of the areas we discussed and since these were colleagues in the professional field you can be sure we shared challenges of workplace mistreatment and how we adored a great workplace culture.  This reminds me of the story of the two best motor engineers of the 1960s, Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari. The actual year is...

When growing up, we were privileged to come from a Christian household, this meant being exposed to Christian virtues earlier in life. This really determined the persons whom we have grown to become. One thing I remember from our childhood is listening to and watching Ron Kenol's music every Sunday because our parents really loved his praise and worship music.  There were also bits of Don Moen, Lenny Leblanc & Kirk Franklin courtesy of the vibrant teen Bible Club sessions at our local Church. And so one thing I will forever remain grateful to our parents for is the fact that even though we were not rich, they ensured we got all we needed and exposed us to a life they believed was best for us - of course before we grew up and had to now make life decisions by ourselves. For this, I will forever be grateful and thankful. And as I grew out of my parents' wings - I got exposed to another layer of gospel music - This layer of music was the likes of, Hillsongs, Motown worship...

Employers are coming to the realization that good talent takes more than just a good salary and the benefits package the role comes with; that employees are willing to even take a lesser pay and benefits package in exchange for a conducive work environment.  Talented candidates are becoming picky, they are looking for a workplace that will not only enable them to deliver but also provide that feeling of family unity up and above the pay and benefits package. Good candidates will freely table their notice to terminate their contracts within the first few days at work if they realize the culture is not what they are looking for, if they do not get the right organizational culture. Gone are the days when employers had the edge on retaining great talents, gone are the days when salaries and benefits packages retained employees. The dynamics have changed, employees who know their worth are willing to walk out at any time. If there is anything the Covid-19 pandemic taught us, that must b...

The story of Kanye West's Forbes billion-dollar list barely four years after being in a $53M debt. Credits to Joe Pompliano, Forbes, CNBC & Kanye's Twitter handle . How did Kanye West negotiate his way out of debts to become a billionaire? Believe you not, four years back he was in a debt and this is how he bailed himself out becoming the second hip hop artist to be on Forbes' billion-dollar list after Jay-z. THE STORY In 2007, Kanye West found himself on a flight with Nike CEO Mark Parker. Sensing an opportunity, Kanye took out a sketchpad and started drawing shoe designs for Parker to review. By the time they landed, Kanye had Parker's word the two would design a shoe together. Nike CEO Mark Parker put Kanye West and the legendary Tinker Hatfield, the original designer of the Air Jordan, in a room to collaborate. By mid-2008, Kanye was wearing prototypes of his Nike Air Yeezy in public. The official release of the Air Yeezy came in April 2009. Along with the initi...

The lyrics to the song "It Is Well With My Soul" were written by Horatio Spafford. In the late 1870s, Horatio was a successful Christian attorney and real estate investor, by all standards he was very wealthy before tragedy after tragedy struck.                                              In 1871, he lost a fortune in the great Chicago fire, while still recovering from the loss, his beloved four-year-old son died of scarlet fever. To cool things down, he decided to take his family for a vacation. So he sent his wife and four daughters on a ship to England, where they would accompany his friend, the famous evangelist D. L. Moody, on his next crusade. Since he had a lot of work to do, he sent his family and decided to follow them later. However, while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the ship was involved in a terrible collision and sunk. All his four daughters perished am...

Let me tell you something about God's grace.  Ever wondered why some mighty preachers, gospel artists, motivation speakers, etc., who used to run the airwaves, no longer do so? Ever wondered why a gospel artist, who would step on a stage and the masses go crazy can longer even attract 1000 views for their really good music?  Even wondered why your favorite motivational speakers literary receive no attention like they used to? And that preacher who would literary command the whole nation to touch radio for prayers and a huge % of households would follow - can no longer even attract the same? A preacher who would their church full to capacity forcing the need for more services, can no longer witness such? So they resort to staging miracles to get hold of the members? And this too does not because day in day out they are exposed? This is because . . . When God releases his Grace upon your life, everything you touch turns into gold.  Now, our failure is when we receive these ...