South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Book Review by Val Viljoen FLYING FREE: HOW TO REACH YOUR FULL POTENTIAL by HELEN PHILLIPS This is Helen Phillips’ third book. In her first book Fly with Me she relates the remarkable story of her diagnosis as a multiple sclerosis sufferer, how God gave her faith that he would […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen GOD IN THE ICU: ONE MAN’S SEARCH FOR INTIMACY AND MEANING by DAVE WALKER This book is well written, interesting and inspiring and I enjoyed it immensely. Dave Walker practised as an anaesthetist for 22 years in South Africa and for a further. six years […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen SEEKING ALLAH, FINDING JESUS — A DEVOUT MUSLIM’S JOURNEY TO CHRIST by NABEEL QURESHI In this book, Nabeel Qureshi tells first of his Islamic heritage. He is the son of Pakistani born parents who came as adults to America. They passed on their great love […]
The new Mighty Men Tartan book which is called THE CLOTH! will be launched at Karoo 2014. The book tells the amazing story of how the Mighty Men Tartan cloth came into being and the journey that it has taken right up to the present day. The book is especially […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen DISTORTION by TERRI BLACKSTOCK Genre: Suspense thriller Juliet Cole and her doctor husband Bob are returning a hired trailer in a sleazy part of town late at night when suddenly someone drives into the car park. There is a blast, then squealing of breaks as the […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen THE ARTIST’S DAUGHTER by ALEXANDRA KUYKENDALL This memoir starts with the author’s first meeting with her elderly artist father at the age of eight in Barcelona. Alexandra had high expectations of this meeting and the father-daughter relationship that she assumed would result. Her disappointment in […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen LIFE ON THE LINE: THE STORY OF DES AND ROS SINCLAIR AS TOLD TO AL GIBSON In the first chapter of this testimony of Des and Ros Sinclair’s ministry we are told of Des’ miraculous escape from a West African jail cell after his abduction […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen MADE TO CRAVE: SATISFYING YOUR DEEPEST DESIRE WITH GOD, NOT FOOD by LYSA TERKEURST The whole issue of our eating habits versus the need to be healthy and /or slim is the subject of a vast array of books, magazine articles, websites, etc. This is […]
Bestselling Christian romance author, Francine Rivers, talks to her publishers in a Q&A interview about her highly anticipated new novel, Bridge to Haven, which is due to be released in April. The epic story of temptation, grace and unconditional love looks at the life of a rising 1950s Hollywood star and […]
Book Review by Allan Verreynne HIS CALL, MY ALL: AN AFRICAN DRUMBEAT, A MISSIONARY’S HEARTBEAT by HENNIE KEYTER with JANET RODRIGUEZ Published by Tracey McDonal Publishers, 2014 Pioneering the Gospel into AfricaHennie, in my humble estimation, is a modern day general in the mission field. He and his family have […]