South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Gateway News interviews pastor, author, columnist and public speaker Afrika Mhlophe about his latest book A Passion for Position In your first two books you boldly challenged the prevalence in our part of the world of Christians who also worship ancestors, and believers who care more about their ethnicity than […]
Originally published in Charisma News Prolific author and speaker Eugene Peterson died Monday. He was 85. “During the previous days, it was apparent that he was navigating the thin and sacred space between earth and heaven,” according to his family. “We overheard him speaking to people we can only presume […]
Originally published in Charisma News Eugene Peterson, the bestselling author of The Message and longtime pastor praised as a “shepherd’s shepherd,” is moving into hospice and receiving palliative medical care. Peterson, 85, was hospitalised Tuesday October 9 “when he took a sudden and dramatic turn in his health caused by […]
Gateway News interviews veteran Christian journalist Dot Mitchell about her new book He Said Yes! — about the life of trailblazing South African Christian leader Derek Crumpton Tell us about your own connection with Derek Crumpton “The first time I met Derek Crumpton and his wife Jean was in 1976 […]
Book Review by Andre Viljoen Pretoria-based pastor, leader and author Olusegun Olanipekun has written a timely book on building a great nation according to biblical principles — an assignment that he believes is the next focus of the Holy Spirit and demands the attention of all Christians. Indeed, against a […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen This book deals with where the takkie meets the tar in the life of the Christian — and that is the area of relationships, both with others and with God himself. And often the potential for greatest hurt lies in our relationships with our nearest […]
ISAIAH 40:13 – “Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” What a wonderful verse, and particularly relevant here is “They will soar on wings like eagles.” Yes, believers soaring […]
A new book is available to passionate followers of Christ. A book that will challenge you and shake you – but leave you on firmer ground than you may have been on before. Former PEFM Christian Radio presenter, Graham Ries, spent years consumed by a burning passion to pen a […]
Stumbling upon a confronting quotation Several years ago now, while browsing through some books in a large bookstore in Cape Town, I came across Hermann Giliomee’s impressive tome titled The Afrikaners. As I was trying to balance it in the palm of one hand, it fell open to page 208, […]
Tell us about yourself and the how you were inspired to write about Andrew Murray. I grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. And it was there as a young teenager that I grew to love Andrew Murray’s devotional works. My grandfather used to purchase them from market stalls on […]