South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent The greatest need for both Jews and Gentiles is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit as on the Day of Pentecost (or Shavuot) – 50 days after Yeshua was raised from the dead. Whereas the Law of Moses, given 50 days after the exodus from […]
By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent The coronation taking place in London’s Westminster Abbey this Saturday is not just about the crowning of a new king. If the service follows precedent, it will also be much focused on the King of Kings, the ruler of the universe. This is symbolically reflected […]
With so much misinformation circulating in the media about the ongoing Middle East conflict, where Israel is perennially portrayed as the great bully, there is another story! Amidst the storm of Temple Mount riots, along with mass anti-government protests and brutal terrorist murders, believers in Yeshua (Jesus) from all over […]
If you fancy a tour of Israel, but can’t afford it or feel it would be too dangerous in view of escalating conflict, you could just read a book! Kathie Lee Gifford’s The Rock, The Road and the Rabbi, with additional comments from Rabbi Jason Sobel, takes you on an […]
The approach to Passover and Easter is a good time to remember the extreme bravery of German pastor Paul Schneider, who almost single-handedly stood up to Nazi brutality in the years immediately preceding World War II. He paid with his life, murdered by lethal injection in July 1939, aged just […]
I want to share my excitement about an important bi-centenary of which I feel privileged to be a part. It was 200 years ago, in 1823, that the Church’s Ministry among Jewish people (CMJ), for whom I volunteer, decided to establish a permanent base in Israel, having been founded on […]
By Charles Gardner — UK Correspondent Just as many were once more committing themselves to never let the Holocaust happen again, the senseless slaughter of seven worshippers at an East Jerusalem synagogue had us reeling once more with shock. It was only last week that I was writing about the […]
Fresh evidence for the absolute reliability of God’s word is now enshrined in the truly amazing testimony of three courageous Jewish sisters. Their remarkable story – how they emerged as virtual skeletons from the Holocaust nightmare to play a key role in building modern Israel – is powerfully documented in […]
By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent As we approach Hanukkah, it’s a timely reminder that the conditions leading to its inception are very much with us today. For godlessness and unbelief abounded as the Syrian-Greek tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes IV unleashed his fury on the Jewish people of the second century BC. […]
Hidden in the Book of Numbers are some glorious promises of Messianic redemption. And the most astonishing thing about them is that they come from a pagan source. A soothsayer from Syria is summoned by the King of Moab to put a curse on the Israelites, who are about to […]