Cape Town – This year the David and Jonathan Foundation are staging two celebration evenings for the Feast of Tabernacles, one in Meadowridge on Friday evening (September 21) and the other next Saturday (September 29) in Brackenfell, with the focus, “Fear not for the Lord is with you” remembering our […]
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Jade sparkles despite latest health battle
Her name is Jade, which is a name that fits her well because, in her attitude to life, she seems to sparkle like a jewel, despite hardships she has endured — and is still enduring. Jade Wyngaardt is the owner and founder of Click Africa Digital – an online marketing […]
Dagga legalisation raises concerns for youth
Christian voices opposed to this week’s ruling by the Constitutional Court South Africa’s youth risk paying the highest price for this week’s landmark Constitutional Court ruling decriminalising use of dagga by adults in private, said Johan Claassen of Doctors for Life International (DFL). Expressing deep disappointment at the judgement, on […]
Huge Bible slogan up for 4 Guinness world records
Originally published in Christian Today A huge slogan painted on a bare Mexican hillside is in the running for no less than four Guinness World Records, according to Evangelical Focus. The Hill of the Bible was created in 1987 as a project of the evangelical churches of Cuidad Juarez, the […]
Euthanasia activist Sean Davison may face multiple murder charges
Euthanasia activist Sean Davison might face multiple murder charges, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday. The founder of euthanasia advocacy group Dignity SA was in court on a charge of premeditated murder in connection with the death of Anrich Burger in Cape Town in 2013 in an alleged assisted suicide […]
Kenyan worship leader one of two killed for failing to say Islamic prayer of faith
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday, 14 September. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its […]
Conference considers how to love those struggling with same sex attraction
Experts in various different fields from all over South Africa spoke at the Learning to Love Conference in Durbanville, Cape Town last Saturday, in an event aimed at equipping the church to better love people struggling with same-sex attraction. Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, the Legal Counsel of Freedom of Religion South […]
Racism, superiority and hatred — Afrika Mhlophe
In some of my talks on culture and diversity I am sometimes asked the question: “Can black people be racist?” I have come to learn that this question is loaded and also based on a narrow definition of racism as simply about “superiority”. Racial superiority is a weakness of Western […]
Finding new themes for congregational singing — Hugh Wetmore
Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column. The Bible is one of the most comprehensive books ever compiled! And God had the major hand in this compilation. God wants His pastors to preach […]
PROPHETIC ENCOURAGEMENT: The season for her delivery has come
Clementia Pae shares a prophetic word for 2018 that God gave her in December last year — and encourages believers to stand in faith on the word now. Is anything too difficult or too wonderful for the Lord? At the appointed time, when the season [for her delivery] comes, I […]