South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
New Bible releases took centre stage at Christian Art Media’s (CAM) recent sales conference in Johannesburg which was attended by bookstore owners, Christian music distributors, and media practitioners, as well as CAM partners such as the Zondervan group and Capital Music. Zondervan is releasing the Jesus Bible which is spearheaded […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen One of the greatest challenges for the Church today is the rapidly increasing tolerance of homosexuality in society and the concomitant increase in social persecution of those who believe that the bible makes it clear that sexual behaviour between persons of the same sex is […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen In this 2016 release from New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock, Casey Cox is on the run. Her DNA is all over the murder scene of her best friend. Dylan Roberts is hired to find her – this seems a good break for the […]
40 portraits of His transforming glory Book Review by Rev John Alexander Check out the self-improvement section of any bookstore and you will find a bewildering plethora of titles relating to self-improvement, self-enhancement, improving one’s self-image, and so on. And the one word that binds them all together is the […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen Information technology has completely transformed our lives. The benefits are numerous — instant communication with loved ones all over the world through social media, access to a plethora of video and audio teachings and preachings as well as entertainment in the comfort of our […]
Book Review by Val ViljoenMy First Hands-On Bible – Tyndale House Publishers It is not an easy task to bring the Bible alive to preschoolers. If you are one of those gifted people who would disagree with me, I hope you are making yourself available to teach in Sunday school! […]
Christian Art had their quarterly sales conference on July 14, 2015 in Pretoria where they presented their latest books, movies, messages, music and gifts. The sales Conference held in Pretoria was one of three conferences planned by Christian Art. The other two were held in both Cape Town and Durban on […]
Originally posted in Christian Today Despite the daily news of the persecution of Christians around the world by Islamist groups, there is another, lesser-known story of growing numbers of Muslims around the world who are turning to Christ as Lord. Missionary David Garrison’s book, A Wind in the House of […]
New York Times best-selling author, Francine Rivers is currently visiting South Africa and has made herself available to the public through press conferences, book signing events and speaking opportunities. I had the pleasure of meeting her at a press conference in Johannesburg yesterday. She shared some of her life story […]
Hennie Keyter, a hardcore South African missionary with a passion for spreading the Gospel in hostile parts of Africa, has documented his life story in a new book called ‘His Call, My All: An African Drumbeat – A Missionary’s Heartbeat’. The book, by this legend in Africa missions who laughed as […]