South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
YOU ARE INIVTED TO…BE SWITCHED ON at the Opening and Closing Festival at St George’s Cricket Stadium on Sunday 16 & 22 August (Gates and Food Stalls Open at 13h00). Come and plug in to a lovely programme line-up with a Pre-Programme commencing at 13h30. Local Brass Dance and Music […]
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] Adam and Eve…How many times have you heard that phrase? We have never heard of Adam and another woman’s name or Eve was with another man. It is always Adam and Eve. In our day with people arguing against homosexuality they say […]
Visit www.willowcreeksa.co.za to register for GLS 2015 Brian Houston, Hillsong Church founder and global senior pastor, joins us for the 2015 Summit. Hillsong has grown from a small church plant to a global family of congregations with more than 100 000 weekly attendees. He is also Executive Producer of more than […]
[notice]In this guest column, Johannesburg engineer and blogger Niel Knoblauch says that an identity crisis is at the heart of greed and hopelessness that is gripping many people as our nation faces tough times.[/notice] After a year of not really thinking too much about it, the current state of South […]
Leaders who will minister from the podium at the Mighty Men Conference Western Cape have been awarded their colours — official MMC WC blue jackets — ahead of the men’s gathering at Moreson Farm, Malmesbury from September 25 to 27, 2015. Dr Gerhard Kotze, Leader of Amazing Grace Ministries; George Lehman, […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] Whatever happens between now and the rest of the year, the University of Cape Town has not had an ordinary year, if media publicity is anything to go by. I was recently invited by an evangelical, interdenominational Christian […]
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 […]
God’s word tells us to be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (1 Peter 5:5) and, “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Yet, I often feel there is an element of […]
Members of the Inter-Church Council (ICC), representing three mainstream Afrikaans churches, held a historic first dialogue meeting with leaders of the African National Congress at the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Tuesday (August 4). Previously the church leaders withdrew from an invitation to meet the ANC on June 9 […]
Christian and corporate leaders in South Africa and neighbouring countries are getting behind the vision for a National Day of Repentance (NDR) in Bloemfontein on September 13, says NDR Communications Manager Rebecca Cantor. “We stand amazed at the doors that the Lord has opened in the past few days, having […]