Originally published in Religion News Service As anxious families in the troubled Middle East and North Africa — and especially Iran — face the coronavirus epidemic, Christian broadcaster SAT-7 (www.sat7usa.org) this week launched a new campaign to “calm the wave of fear with God’s peace”. With coronavirus — known as […]
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SA racism, violence on international display: What is our response?
Statement by Sacli (South African Christian Leadership Initiative) team facilitating a 10-year journey from racism to reconciliation This week @SteveHofmeyr and @ZindziMandela tweets put our history of unresolved South African pain and prejudice, anger and hatred, rage and violence, on international display — to our national shame. Steve Hofmeyr, not […]
Breakthrough and belief — Hannah Viviers
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. “Hope for the best, but expect the worst.” It’s a line I’ve heard before, in different ways. I believe it’s probably the number one reason we don’t consistently experience the breakthroughs we hope for. This week I’ve been thinking a […]
How to respond in a crisis — Marian Fitz-Gibbon
President JF Kennedy once remarked that ‘when written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis; is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.’ Every crisis, is, at the same time, an opportunity. Listening to CNN and the reports on Hurricane Irma is the example of a both […]
Beating junk status blues — Hannah Viviers
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. I don’t scare easy. But BOY was I terrified when South’s Africa’s credit rating was downgraded to Junk! I heard the news ON my birthday! It was horrible. I met with associates that day. They spoke as though the entire […]
Skydiving and Kingdom assignments
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] As we are going to the new year, no doubt many of us will be setting personal goals of what we want to achieve in 2017; the things we want to change about ourselves, where we want to go; our travel goals, […]
Faking it? Then work on it
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] The other day as I was seating writing on my laptop, my youngest son (aged 6) also took his toy laptop and sat right next to me. He proceeded to open it and type away as if he needed to meet a […]
Fear and faith — complimentary or contradictory?
In the world fear and faith are mutually exclusive as the one weakens the other, however, in Spirit fear and faith are connected and strengthen each other as God is Spirit, He is the All-and-All-in-All of our faith and we experience Him in fear and trembling. When speaking about fear […]
Black or Blue Monday in a sea of red
[notice]A monthly prophetic perspective from Marian and Kate Fitz-Gibbon[/notice] World headlines read……… CNN Money market: After a rollercoaster day on Monday that concludes three days of major losses of stocks, investors started buying again on Tuesday, and they are moving the market up. Fin24: China stocks extend biggest plunge since 1996. August […]
Fearless in faith in SA today
[notice]A new, monthly column by Vivienne Solomons who is a legal consultant who passionately believes that God wants His people to make a difference right where they are and to stand up for what is true and just. She is also passionate about encouraging young women to walk victoriously with […]