South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in God Reports After years of learning the language, developing an alphabet, teaching literacy, missionary Brooks Buser and team gave the YembiYembi tribe in Papua New Guinea copies of the Bible five years ago. “It has been a long time, almost 2 000 years, that we the YembiYembi […]
Singing songs in the Sunday services is one of God’s effective methods of “making disciples”. Jesus expects us to keep His comprehensive purpose — to make disciples — at the centre of our service for Him. A disciple is one who is being “taught” the teachings of Jesus, and who […]
Is it possible to sing worship songs to God that actually are songs that worship money? “No” says Jesus. You cannot worship God and money. Yet the motivation behind publishers’ surveys asking us to name the most popular worship songs is this: “If we publish the popular worship songs, we […]
God is calling on church leaders on Sundays to take their people out of the four walls and onto the streets to make disciples across South Africa, says prophetess Janet-Brann Hollis. She says the Lord has been speaking to her about the fact that the Church has been silenced and […]
Each week of the #50Dayd2BlesstheNation Alf James is interviewing a leader around the week’s theme. This week he spoke to Pastor Laurette Mkati prayer coordinator of SA Prayer Movement for Change about the week’s focus of “The Church and other religions”. We are witnessing the powerful effect of the media […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] In my line of work, I am approaching a very emotional time of the year. Leading a church that is mostly made up of university students, we are about to say our goodbyes to a good number of […]
“The purpose of the second God’s Karoo Women Conference from November 5 to 6 2016 is for women to be ‘refilled’ with God. For some it might be to get back into a right relationship with Him, for another it might mean healing, for yet another it might be to […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] Few things are as powerful as the desire to live a significant life and ‘change the world,’ especially as a young Christian living in South Africa. I recently had the privilege of taking some young people away for […]
[notice]A monthly Christian sport column by Cobus Kruger, a professional triathlete who is passionate about evangelism, leadership and community development through sport.[/notice] Go and make disciples….. “18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples […]