South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
In our January worship column, we noted: We must stop trying to win the approval of the people, with their divergent song preferences. We must win the approval of God. That’s how the apostle Paul overcame divisions that were based on personal preferences: Am I trying to win the approval […]
Pastor Poncho Murguia is a humble man who speaks with a quiet authority. I watched yesterday as about 18 top police and prisons officers grappling with deadly gang violence in Port Elizabeth’s Northern Areas listened intently to him for more than an hour. “I beg you, don’t wait, like we did, […]
A monthly column by farmer, preacher and writer for Jesus, Angus Buchan Psalm 37:31 (NKJV) — “The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall [a]slide.” If the heart is right, then the whole man will be right. In our beloved South Africa where there […]
A monthly column by farmer, preacher and writer for Jesus, Angus Buchan Just the other day I had the privilege of visiting my newest grandchild, a baby girl, who is nine months old and I must say she has got me right around her little finger. She is so beautiful, […]
As severe drought conditions persist in parts of South Africa a group of churches has called on South African Christians to come humbly before the Lord in prayer on Wednesday February 14. The Dutch Reformed Church in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, the Uniting Reformed Church in the Western […]
[notice]A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus.[/notice] Something a lot of people don’t know about me: I spent a lot of my time as a child in the rural areas with my granddad and gran. On a number of occasions I lived with them for long periods […]
My dad gave me my first Bible when I went to Grade 1. On the first page he wrote Psalm 119:9. A verse that has since become one of my favourites: How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole […]
During the last week churches in the Middelburg area of the Karoo’s heartland, were involved in seven days of 24-hour prayer for spiritual breakthrough and revival in South Africa, which was part of Jericho Walls’ Seven Days on the Wall night-and-day prayer initiative earnestly seeking God for revival among the […]
Originally published in Christian Today Jesus Culture is “a ministry to ignite revival in the nations of the earth”, according to its Twitter bio. This worship-led revival movement which sprung out of Bethel Church, Redding has a global mandate and a global influence. The band, led by Kim Walker-Smith and […]
God’s word tells us to be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (1 Peter 5:5) and, “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Yet, I often feel there is an element of […]