South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
It seems like just the other day that the whole e-toll saga was laid to rest in South Africa. After government had enforced the system on our Gauteng roads citizens engaged in civil disobedience, as we resisted the system and refused to pay amounts owed to the e-tolling company. And […]
In the poem, The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost writes about how he chose one path in favour of another and expressed his intention to return to that crossing to take the other path. But he showed his maturity when he said: “Yet knowing how way leads on to way, […]
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States, said: “The government you elect is the government you deserve.” Do Christians understand the biblical imperative of Proverbs 29:2 (KJV) that when the righteous rule, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn? I am quite certain that […]
The Constitutional Court recently upheld our constitutional democracy when it dismissed the IEC’s application to postpone the upcoming Local Government Elections, thus avoiding the complications that such a postponement would have brought to our nation Scientists have identified a principle called entropy that basically says that anything left unattended will […]
Jesus take the wheel SA series Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 The 12th and final episode of Julita Kok’s weekly reports on her remarkable road trip with God through Namibia 11 300km in 10,5 weeks. What do I say about a lifechanging […]
I have been involved in Christian ministry since my early teens. This involved outreaches, charity drives and many prayers at hospitals and in even more homes. That part of my ministry never stopped. But between the years 2010 to the first three months of 2014 I did extensive community work […]
Martin Luther King, Jr, the great American civil rights activist and Christian minister, is attributed with saying: The Church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the […]
Since the beginning of time there has been contention between darkness and light and good and evil: each fighting for prominence in the human reality. I doubt that God prohibited the first humans from eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil merely because He did not […]
So it was that God sent Moses to deliver the nation of Israel from slavery in Egypt, as the Bible recounts. But God, knowing where He wanted His people to be geographically, in belief and in lifestyle, understood that He had more to do than just take them out […]
One of the saddest incidents in the Bible, in my view, is the story in 2 Kings 4:1 (ESV) — Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the […]