South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Book Review by Val Viljoen CRASH THE CHATTERBOX: HEARING GOD’S VOICE ABOVE ALL OTHERS by STEVEN FURTICK One of the reasons that I enjoyed this book is the author’s transparency regarding his own struggles in the area of negative thought patterns. It is so easy to fall into a downward spiral […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen FLYING FREE: HOW TO REACH YOUR FULL POTENTIAL by HELEN PHILLIPS This is Helen Phillips’ third book. In her first book Fly with Me she relates the remarkable story of her diagnosis as a multiple sclerosis sufferer, how God gave her faith that he would […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen GOD IN THE ICU: ONE MAN’S SEARCH FOR INTIMACY AND MEANING by DAVE WALKER This book is well written, interesting and inspiring and I enjoyed it immensely. Dave Walker practised as an anaesthetist for 22 years in South Africa and for a further. six years […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen SEEKING ALLAH, FINDING JESUS — A DEVOUT MUSLIM’S JOURNEY TO CHRIST by NABEEL QURESHI In this book, Nabeel Qureshi tells first of his Islamic heritage. He is the son of Pakistani born parents who came as adults to America. They passed on their great love […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen DISTORTION by TERRI BLACKSTOCK Genre: Suspense thriller Juliet Cole and her doctor husband Bob are returning a hired trailer in a sleazy part of town late at night when suddenly someone drives into the car park. There is a blast, then squealing of breaks as the […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen THE ARTIST’S DAUGHTER by ALEXANDRA KUYKENDALL This memoir starts with the author’s first meeting with her elderly artist father at the age of eight in Barcelona. Alexandra had high expectations of this meeting and the father-daughter relationship that she assumed would result. Her disappointment in […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen LIFE ON THE LINE: THE STORY OF DES AND ROS SINCLAIR AS TOLD TO AL GIBSON In the first chapter of this testimony of Des and Ros Sinclair’s ministry we are told of Des’ miraculous escape from a West African jail cell after his abduction […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen MADE TO CRAVE: SATISFYING YOUR DEEPEST DESIRE WITH GOD, NOT FOOD by LYSA TERKEURST The whole issue of our eating habits versus the need to be healthy and /or slim is the subject of a vast array of books, magazine articles, websites, etc. This is […]
Book Review by Allan Verreynne HIS CALL, MY ALL: AN AFRICAN DRUMBEAT, A MISSIONARY’S HEARTBEAT by HENNIE KEYTER with JANET RODRIGUEZ Published by Tracey McDonal Publishers, 2014 Pioneering the Gospel into AfricaHennie, in my humble estimation, is a modern day general in the mission field. He and his family have […]
Book Review by Janey DeMeo MA — Originally published in Examiner THE JESUS BIBLE,NIV — DISCOVER JESUS IN EVERY BOOK OF THE BIBLE (ZONDERVAN) The Jesus Bible is just the thing to boost the faith of young teens and to encourage them to read God’s Word. The Jesus Bible not […]