South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Recently there’s been an emphasis on child mental health, childhood abuse, parenting and adolescents. Globally, it is estimated that 10% to 20% of children and adolescents are affected by mental health disorders. In South Africa research suggests that a lack of intersectoral collaboration on mental health has resulted in children […]
For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you, says the Lord, plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29.11) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways […]
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. — Hebrews 4.12 Longing to loveThe cultural narrative of devaluation is a ruthless saboteur of individual […]
But do you know in whose? See, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreaded day of the Lord. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and […]
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. — Proverbs 22:6 Perhaps you come from an era where the above verse was cited in a stern voice by your mum as you were marched off to the […]
Understanding the times and the season we live in can be found in the Bible excerpt “A Tree Known by its Fruit”: “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood […]
Frontline workers in South Africa are breathing a sigh of relief as the arrival of vaccines brings a promise of push back against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. This brings a greater hope of saving lives and reducing the number of infections. Running parallel to this is a breakthrough Ivermectin treatment […]
2021 has started and quite honestly, as I sat with the LORD, I contemplated what the year would look like and I was rather overwhelmed as to what I should share. I couldn’t say I heard: “Thus sayeth the Lord” but rather I had a whole lot of thoughts that […]
2020 will be a year that will go down in history that’s not too dissimilar to that of some of the world wars that others have lived through. When we share our stories of what we’ve been through this year we will count the numbers of those that have made […]
I woke at 4 am to capture the following dream: I was on an extremely fast-moving train. It was like one of those supersonic types of trains, yet I had not yet been on one like this. Everyone was dressed in white; the train was pretty full, yet none of […]
