South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
These are words that have been used over and over by opinion writers, top businessmen and women, you and I over the decades. One asks whether they are warning words to jerk the various sectors to wake up from a slumber lest we hear the shuddering feet of the masses […]
Imagine with me life as a Ukrainian mother, or any other global wartime mother, or a little closer to home, hear the heart-rending words of a woman affected by the floods in KwaZulu-Natal: “It was absolutely traumatic, some mornings I woke up 3am and I’m in tears thinking of the […]
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. — Hebrews 4.12 Longing to loveThe cultural narrative of devaluation is a ruthless saboteur of individual […]
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. — Proverbs 22:6 Perhaps you come from an era where the above verse was cited in a stern voice by your mum as you were marched off to the […]
Understanding the times and the season we live in can be found in the Bible excerpt “A Tree Known by its Fruit”: “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood […]
Frontline workers in South Africa are breathing a sigh of relief as the arrival of vaccines brings a promise of push back against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. This brings a greater hope of saving lives and reducing the number of infections. Running parallel to this is a breakthrough Ivermectin treatment […]
2021 has started and quite honestly, as I sat with the LORD, I contemplated what the year would look like and I was rather overwhelmed as to what I should share. I couldn’t say I heard: “Thus sayeth the Lord” but rather I had a whole lot of thoughts that […]
As a well-travelled person, I am fascinated by how society gathers together after devastations such as floods, wars, tsunamis, earthquakes, and the like to refine their identity, purpose and safety again. “Those that sow in tears will reap in joy” — Psalm 126:5 Change is a universal experience. In South […]
“You’re familiar with the commandment that the older generation was taught, ‘Do not murder or you will be judged. But I’m telling you. If you hold anger in your heart toward a fellow believer, you are subject to judgment. And whoever demeans and insults a fellow believer is answerable to […]
This month Marian Fitz-Gibbon reflects on video, on what some prophetic voices have to say about the year ahead — and on how to enter open doors.