South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
As many of you may know, I travel all over the world as God tells me to. In this month of May, I travelled to Zambia and for the first time, I took people with me. Four gentlemen, one being my 40-year-old son, Leo. I love it when God sends me on these […]
By Alani Coetsee Have you ever wondered whether we are deserving of the fullness of God’s love? Whether we have earned it? Or even whether we are good enough to receive such a gift? In his latest single, Crazy Love, singer-songwriter Charl Folscher addresses this question — and concludes that despite deserving the […]
The fifth and final episode of Julita Kok’s reports on her road trip to Gauteng with Jesus Many of you have followed my journeys the past year around South Africa and then Namibia and recently Gauteng. I asked the Lord for a little time at home to just finish the […]
In June 2017 I had the opportunity to experience this Scripture from 2 Corinthians 5:8 first hand. My hospital ministry team leader, Maureen, called one afternoon and asked if I could immediately go with her to hospital. There was a lady from Windhoek that was very ill in the intensive […]
Last Thursday, as intercessory leader Candice Reardon was hanging out washing at her home in Hillcrest, Durban, her sons Ezra, 7 and Denver 4 came rushing over to her shouting excitedly that they had dug up treasure in the garden. She saw that Ezra was clutching a dirty, soil-covered round […]
It was bitterly cold as the young Rebekah wandered down the frost-laden streets of the old city. Most people were in bed, snuggled up next to loved ones or sitting in front of the evening fire. Rebekah had no family and the only thing on the young girl’s mind was […]
It was 2am when I jolted up in bed; there was a banging on my bedroom door: “Mark, we can’t find Cathy!” cried Jenny. The look on her face startled me and I knew the girls were worried. Cathy was a quiet lady who had come to the farm for […]
Christianity has survived centuries of resistance and persecution. But it has also been greatly misunderstood, not only by those who persecuted Christians but often by Christians themselves. Enter the Crusades. It seems to me that these Crusades were the product of their time: a time of violence, world dominance and […]
What does it mean to love, or more importantly what does it mean to be loved? If I had to move around the office and present the same question to my colleagues I can guarantee that every one of them would have a unique and different perspective. This is understandable […]
Having established a biblical response to racism in last week’s Gateway News, I’d like to further expound on the theme by making it more personal. Racism is the trending topic at the moment with the theme “Black Lives Matter” plastered on memes on social media, as well as on the online […]