When relationships face challenging times … love! A few months ago, someone I know well shared something about their life that was both shocking and hurtful to me. I didn’t say much but, in my mind, I started questioning everything I knew about them, including our relationship of many years. […]
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Conference considers how to love those struggling with same sex attraction
Experts in various different fields from all over South Africa spoke at the Learning to Love Conference in Durbanville, Cape Town last Saturday, in an event aimed at equipping the church to better love people struggling with same-sex attraction. Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, the Legal Counsel of Freedom of Religion South […]
Let freedom ring out — Rachel Simpson
Freedom Day, 2018; 24 years since the 1994 elections, the establishment of Mandela’s government, and the rise of a new dawn of equal rights in South Africa. Today, we do not celebrate freedom cheaply, but remember the cost to those who sought freedom while restricted, discriminated against, captive; who knew […]
The danger of just “moving on” — Hannah Viviers
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 […]
Valentine and Don Juan on love, marriage — Michael Cassidy
A monthly column by Michael Cassidy, evangelist, author, Christian leader and founder of African Enterprise whose ministry in Africa and the world has spanned more than 50 years. Don: Well, Valentine, you must be feeling pretty good this month — what with all these cards in your name doing the […]
Christian woman gets married in hospital hours before dying from cancer
Originally published in Premier Christianity News A US woman who was battling cancer has died 18 hours after she tied the knot from her hospital bed. Heather Mosher’s vows to Dave Mosher at Saint Francis Hospital in Connecticut were one of her last words on December 22, 2017. The couple […]
Be kind and gentle — with yourself! — Neziswa Kanju
A monthly column on marriage, family and relationships. When it comes to studying love Christians always refer to 1 Corinthians 13.This scripture gives us an outline of the basics of love. If one wants to be more loving to others or if they want to understand love, they study this […]
This is the month of Love — Lindy-Ann Hopley
A monthly column bringing you frontline testimonies of what God is stirring up across the globe. By international revivalist Lindy-Ann Hopley, Beautiful Witness Ministries. Dear Beautiful Witness Greetings from the air! Always on an adventure with Jesus. The greatest adventure you will ever have is the one of love. Love […]
The living grief of loving an addict wholeheartedly — Hannah Viviers
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. “Mom help me!” my son pleaded. “I’m addicted to heroin …” He was twelve. Those are words NO parent EVER wishes to hear from their child. And yet, Nishani Ford heard those very words spoken to her by her twelve […]
Building bridges to the Father — Marian Fitz-Gibbon
No … London Bridge won’t fall down! Neither will any of the other bridges of the world. We’re standing together in love and we’re determined to build bridges of unity across the seas and rivers of humanity in unity. Bridge building Bridge building is a precise, messy, exact, noisy, complicated, […]