South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] Finding wholesome role models for our kids is near impossible in an age where moral values get chucked out the window in favour of illicit, Miley Cyrus types that […]
Review by Allan Verreynne (with acknowledgement to several quotes from Marshall Segal) This is one of the most riveting true life accounts that I have recently read. Once you start it, you cannot put it down!Like The life story of Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) is truly remarkable! Agony, ecstacy, despair, hope, […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter This week we are introduced to the beautiful Moriah Peters, a young lady who has made a stand not only in the contemporary Christian music market, but also in the competitive music industry when she auditioned for ‘American Idols’ in 2010. After being criticised for […]
One of my vivid memories of being a little girl is connected to the joy in receiving a lucky packet. Can you remember how the game would start with shaking it up to try and ‘hear’ what’s inside? This was then followed by a thorough fingertip investigation of the contents. […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen Jen Gibbs has a successful career in publishing when an aged manuscript mysteriously appears on her desk. It tells the story of Sarra and Rand, two people of vastly different backgrounds who find themselves thrown together in dangerous and difficult circumstances in the heart of […]
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] Church needs to lead a singing revolution As a Marriage Officer, I have married over a hundred couples – most of them unchurched. 15 years ago, every […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald When 12-year-old Martin Pistorius fell into a vegetative state in the late 1980s, the diagnosis of Cryptococci Meningitis was expected to leave him in that condition until he died a short time later. But the boy didn’t die. And 12 years after his paralysis, […]
Originally published in NPR News Nearly five years after it hit bestseller lists, a book that purported to be a six-year-old boy’s story of visiting angels and heaven after suffering a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter Here we are, at the beginning of another spectacular opportunity to see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the living! A new opportunity to see the Kingdom Come and the Will of Our Father done here on planet earth! Open the eyes […]
Originally published in CBN This week the world will say goodbye to gospel legend Andraé Crouch. He died Thursday at the age of 72, after being admitted to the hospital following a heart attack. Crouch served as a co-pastor of New Christ Memorial Church in the Los Angeles suburb of […]