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Originally published in Christian Today Youth ministry Jesus Culture is promoting the book called The Naked Truth About Sexuality, saying that every single, dating, and married person needs to read it. “We’re really excited about this book offering a healthy view on sexuality from Havilah Cunnington and Moral Revolution,” they […]
Can we be happy when we’re single? Ryan Peter looks to answer this question in his new book, Your Single Happiness, which released on Friday, February 13, 2015. In 2004, writer and journalist Ryan Peter was tired of “having tried everything” and still being single. This, coupled with what he calls […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen Jen Gibbs has a successful career in publishing when an aged manuscript mysteriously appears on her desk. It tells the story of Sarra and Rand, two people of vastly different backgrounds who find themselves thrown together in dangerous and difficult circumstances in the heart of […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald When 12-year-old Martin Pistorius fell into a vegetative state in the late 1980s, the diagnosis of Cryptococci Meningitis was expected to leave him in that condition until he died a short time later. But the boy didn’t die. And 12 years after his paralysis, […]
Originally published in NPR News Nearly five years after it hit bestseller lists, a book that purported to be a six-year-old boy’s story of visiting angels and heaven after suffering a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came […]
Book Review by Afrika Mhlophe Proverbs 18:21 says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit” (NKJV). If you are one those people who believe in the power of positive words then you will find the ‘Prophetic Word Bank’ […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen In the Bible, the story of Ruth is beautiful and inspiring. It is a story of redemption and restoration, and can be a powerful initiator of hope to those who are experiencing disappointment and discouragement in their journey through life. Sarah Jakes is the daughter […]
Book Review by Andre Viljoen WALKING BY FAITH: 366 DAILY DEVOTIONS by ANGUS BUCHAN “Will you walk by faith and not by sight?” Angus Buchan asks readers in the January 1 entry in his new book of daily devotions for every day of the year. Echoing the words of Scripture […]
Jenny-May Hudson, author of Monsters, Mice and Mercy, will be in East London next week to share her story of redemption, healing and wholeness after years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her psychopathic father. The popular speaker, who now lives in Perth, Australia, details her chilling […]
Book review by Val Viljoen BRIDGE TO HAVEN by FRANCINE RIVERS Francine Rivers has used the ever-popular prodigal theme in this her latest and much anticipated new novel. Much of it is set in the Hollywood of the 1950’s – a further ingredient that makes for an interesting read. An […]