South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] There is no marriage that starts with divorce in mind. Even the most educated, modern couple, they want their marriage to work. Yes they know about the high divorce rate but they believe that their marriage will be among those that make it. […]
A wall fell over and kids became sick. These were only some of the occurrences at a Uitenhage school in the Eastern Cape recently, after some pupils played an apparent innocent game called ‘Charlie Charlie challenge’. The game has since been banned at the school. The game however, is not […]
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] As a church we were very blessed this past Sunday when our former pastor came to visit. We had a very special service at church when we were welcoming for the first time our senior pastoral couple who got married two weeks […]
You are invited to a Garden Morning Tea event at Amato Pregnancy Crisis Centre at 787 Arcadia Street, Arcadia, Pretoria from 10am to 12.30pm on Saturday, October 3, 2015. “There will be testimonies [at the tea] that will stir your heart,” says Heila Chapman of Amato, which is a Christian based organisation […]
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] Revelation 3:20 says, “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” I have always read this and understood […]
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] What would you do if you were not afraid? What kind of life would you have? The majority of us are not living the life of our dreams. We are not living the life we envisioned for ourselves at this time in […]
Originally published in Testimony1.com An elderly Christian couple from Wisconsin, USA, was featured on Time magazine and other US media recently when they revealed to a local news network that they never had even a single argument in their 75 years of blissful marriage. Arlene and Richard Baughman, age 96 […]
Religious freedom was the winner this week as University of Cape Town Vice Chancellor Dr Max Price ordered that “expelled” SRC Vice President Zizipho Pae be reinstated and DA MP Marius Redlinghuys apologised to her for comments he made to her in response to her Facebook post reacting critically to the legalisation […]
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] Approximately 10 years ago, July of 2005, we lost our second child through a miscarriage. The dictionary describes a miscarriage as “a spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss. It is the natural death of an embryo or foetus before it is able to survive […]
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] The Word says in Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision people perish but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Since 1990 I have been living with short sightedness. My highschool teacher, Mrs Robb, saw that I struggled with seeing […]