South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Have you made the decision to do what you feel you should do in this life? I don’t mean the half-hearted, maybe one day someday, wishy washy, decision. I mean the “yes-I’m-doing-it”, all-in, holding-nothing-back kind of decision. Turns out until […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Often we disqualify ourselves from pursuing our dreams because we believe the lie that somehow we’re not able. We look at others getting ahead, fulfilling great things, while we’re on the slow track — to nowhere. We feel inadequate and […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Have you ever given yourself entirely to something and it didn’t work out the way you’d hoped? Maybe you loved someone — gave them and the relationship everything you possibly knew to give — and they still left you. Or […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. What a whirlwind few weeks we’ve undergone as a country! For the first time in a very long while, last week, South Africa seemed united: First in what seemed like an overwhelming majority of the country being ecstatic that former […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. As school reopens for many this week I’m reminded of my time in school. One year, as school was about to reopen, I broke out in terrible sores all over my hands and arms. My parents tried everything they could to […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. As 2017 comes to a close, I’m finding strange comfort in the realisation that I am not the only one who had a tough year. Last week I could feel myself coming undone — I went through a roller coaster […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Given half the chance, my kids would be jumping — and I mean jumping at the opportunity to participate in Halloween. Dress-up, sweets, fun with friends- c’mon, what kid wouldn’t want to jump in! Often my two older children aged 6 […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Coming from a media background, for years my career was about being seen and helping others promote themselves via media channels. So entrenched was this culture that I’d even carried it into my ministry. Until one day God told me […]
Hannah Viviers spoke to Hermana Viljoen, a guide at the ancient Galilean town of Magdala — home place of Mary Magdalene, where archeologists have unearthed a synagogue where Jesus probably taught. Together they wrote this reflection on Jesus’s attitude to women and the unique historical, cultural and ministry opportunities at […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Most of us have been through something that made us feel ugly. A break-up, an abuse, a loss, poverty, disappointment, depression, all manners of rejection … The list is vast — how we’re left feeling though, is universal. We’re left […]
