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[notice]ALF JAMES interviews people at the Sacred Assembly — a historic gathering of 50 000 Christians at the FNB Stadium, Soweto, on Saturday (November 19 2016). See also https://gatewaynews.co.za/presence-and-power-of-the-lord-evident-at-sacred-assembly/[/notice]. Being a member of the body that made up the Sacred Assembly, which humbled itself in repentance before the Lord was an […]
Pressing need for repentance [notice]In the last of a series of articles paving the way to the Sacred Assembly at the FNB Stadium, Soweto on November 19, Alf James speaks to farmer-evangelist Angus Buchan who initiated the event in response to a calling from God. He also explores the central […]
The good news is that we have the capacity to “rewire” our brain by using those parts of the brain responsible for intentional choices to create new neural pathways to ultimately overrule those pathways caused by past experiences which can hold us in such bondage. Skilton is a scientist who […]
The glory of the Lord surrounded them as they sang last week, said Lydia Lincks, one of the members of a fiery worship team I had the privilege of meeting this week. This is not your everyday worship group. The 13 women and two men I was talking to are […]
Church leaders in Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) endorse the Save South Africa campaign and call upon local denominations, congregations and individual believers, to join the civil society movement, say a group of leaders in a statement issued on their behalf by the SA Council of Churches. The statement coincides with a […]
[notice]The pollsters got it wrong. The media got it wrong. Described as one of the greatest upsets in US election history, controversial US billionaire Donald Trump this week was elected the 45th president of the United States. But God was not surprised and amidst the euphoria and shock following the […]
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development recently released the long-awaited and very controversial Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. (The Bill is available for download at http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/invitations/invites.htm). In essence, the bill creates two new criminal offences in South African law, namely “hate crimes” and “hate […]
The CRL Rights Commission has granted a request by religious bodies for more time to respond to its controversial proposals on the regulation of religion. The CRL’s report on the “commercia isation” of religion was published on October 26 and religious bodies were given until November 18 to comment. The […]
Originally published in The Christian Post WATCH: ‘Hannelie’, testimony of South African missionary, produced by Voice of the Martyrs for International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church As Christians from around the world are facing persecution in unprecedented numbers, churches and Christian organisations will hold special prayers for the […]
While it is disturbed by apparent abuses within religious communities, the cure proposed by the CRL Rights Commission — to regulate religious bodies and licence religious practitioners — would be a thousand times worse than the described disease, says the Christian Citizenship Network of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa. Calling on the commission […]