South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]Musings around children’s ministry.[/notice] “Let’s do it today. We’ll go to the squatter camp after work and make a start. Does that sound like a plan?” I searched my mind for the appropriate excuse to get out of it but then the unthinkable happened. I heard my own voice betray […]
[notice] A fortnightly column by Anna Heydenrych: the eighth in a series of reflections on the nine fruits of the Spirit (Galations 5:22-23)[/notice] The whole world is longing for peace. Disorder and war, however, prevail for the time being, while a Kingdom of Peace advances. This Kingdom is ushered in […]
[notice] Vineyard pastor and author ALEXANDER VENTER, writing in his Kingdom Treasures blog, reflects on the root cause of violence in South Africa. And on the solution.[/notice]What is the cause of the unbelievable levels of violence in South Africa – specially in terms of rape and murder – what men […]
By Jennifer Leclaire — Originally published in Charisma News When Crystal Kelley agreed to a surrogate pregnancy for a couple who wanted a fourth child, she never dreamed it would end with a bribe and legal maneuvers to force an abortion. The drama started when doctors discovered that the baby […]
[notice] A fortnightly column by Johannesburg Business Editor, Patrick Kuwana. [/notice] Numerous people have asked me why I am so obsessed about business and the economy. Well, the economy is the platform that we use to fulfil the first instructions we were given by God – ‘And God blessed them […]
[notice]A response to what is happening prophetically in the world today — A monthly column by Julie de Lisle[/notice]I settle down in front of my iPad, my mission: to survey what’s happening in the world today, not only through the news, but through the church and today’s modern day prophets. […]
[notice] A fortnightly column by Anna Heydenrych: the seventh in a series of reflections on the nine fruits of the Spirit (Galations 5:22-23)[/notice] I remember a particular day when I was younger, and my sister and I were spending the day with our Gran. On this particular day, Granny bought […]
[notice]As the SA justice system weighs the events surrounding the tragic shooting of Reva Steenkamp, SIFISO MABENA says that for Christians the end of the matter is not whether Oscar Pistorius committed murder or made a dreadful mistake. As children of God we are called to a different way of […]
How do we view the things happening in our beloved country at present? When we open our newspapers and read of yet more murders, rapes, fraud, and road deaths, to say nothing of a government that has failed to deliver on so many fronts, what is our reaction? Do we […]
[notice]Johanita Jordaan shares her personal experience of encountering the church when she was a lesbian, and offers her opinion on how to reach out to homosexuals with the love of Christ.[/notice] After reading the article “Church will be asked to accept gays” in which it is reported that the Dutch […]