South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Following the recent racial twitter spat between popular Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr and puppeteer Conrad Koch with his puppet Chester Missing a YouTube video emerged from a certain Bouwer Bosch; a spoken word video in Afrikaans titled “Kleurblind”. The video has since gone viral and made headlines in most of […]
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] LigWeg is the solo brainchild of Gert Smit, and has been around for a number of years releasing their self-titled debut album in 2013. Gert is no newbie in […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter I love it when a group of musicians are so confident in their own ability and comfortable in their own skin, that they are not afraid to share a stage with other musicians for a common purpose, to worship the One and Only God of […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter Maybe this week’s review should be entitled “Confessions of a Worshipper.” How is it that I didn’t know about Lincoln Brewster? There is two things I like about this guy, no make it three! 1. He is 6 months older than me, underlining the fact […]
Originally published in Breaking Christian News Is any music beyond redemption, if one’s purpose is to worship the Lord? That question may open a much larger discussion. But, one simple example of taking a song meant for another purpose altogether, and using it to bring glory to God is that […]
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] In an overfilled and saturated Christian music market originality is more often than not overlooked and forced to take the back seat in favour of the perception of what […]
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] What seemed like a chance meeting five years ago when brothers Jaco and Johan van den Berg met the church newbie, Zander De Beer at Living Word Church in […]
WELL known LINK FM DJ Vikki Cole is about to set the East London stage alight in a one night only musical production with a difference. Touch His Garment is show featuring original songs from the Reaching Higher co-presenter and powerful mini drama skits by Hudson Park High School teacher […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter PASSION: TAKE IT ALL (DELUXE EDITION) PASSION: What are you passionate about? What drives you to pursue something beyond your own ability? What inspires you? What does this word even mean to ordinary people like you and me? Is this a word exclusively reserved for […]
The Witbank 4 Jesus Festival, held on Saturday (August 2) opened at 14h00, but was buzzing with preparation long before the crowd thronged onto the sports field of Curro Bankenveld Private School, which overlooks Witbank Dam. By the end of the day a thousand people had gone through the gates. […]