If your best friend was struggling financially and you had access to inexhaustible funds, would you give them enough money to keep their head above water? If you had a remedy that could cure your friend’s incurable disease, would you share it? If you had a book that saved your marriage from the divorce court, […]
Read moreOn the one hand, many people have a problem with Rahab who helped the Israelite spies in Joshua 1. On the other hand, here she’s used as an example: 25The same with Rahab, the Jericho harlot. Wasn’t her action in hiding God’s spies and helping them escape—that seamless unity of believing and doing—what counted with […]
Read moreI am privileged to lead the annual harvest prayer meeting with the Helderberg farmers, just this side of Somerset West. I’m quite familiar with the area since I’ve worked on a wine farm for a few years. I enjoy spending time with fellow farmers retelling all the old stories stored in a deep filing cabinet. […]
Read moreWow, it’s unbelievable how our lives have been changed by technology! Of course, some of it is not good, but some apps have broadened and improved our worlds considerably. Take WhatsApp, for instance. Information is flying everywhere, and we immediately know what is happening in the world. There are no more limits, and no distance […]
Read moreI was lying in my bed when I heard someone climbing through the window. Within seconds I saw him entering the room. In the moonlight shining through the window, I glimpsed his AK47. My heart was hammering in my chest. I could see him softly opening one wardrobe door after the other. I could see […]
Read moreTheo sent me this very touching story: At the beginning of 1971 my dad lost the farm and everything with it. He got a job with Sasol in Sasolburg and we moved from Jacobsdal to Sasolburg. It was a brand-new house. It had no garden and no high walls around it. After three months the […]
Read moreSometimes in my life I’m uncertain. Times when I doubt whether I believe correctly. My thoughts run around in circles and spiral down to a place where it feels as if my faith has in a sense left me. At times like these I feel as if I’m barking up the wrong tree and I […]
Read moreMany people are struggling. Many businesses are going under and people lose their jobs. People have no income. They have no food. It feels as if the stress is gnawing at you from the inside. Not only financial stress, but stress in relationships and so on as well. What do you do then? At times […]
Read moreWe enjoy making a fixed home here on earth. We buy houses and equip them with all the nice things. Nothing wrong with that. Obviously, we can enjoy our time here on earth, but we have to realise that this is only temporary. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob also believed this: 13… and accepted the fact […]
Read moreThis is Celeste’s story of a miracle: I want to witness about a miracle that happened in our lives. In 2008, my husband, Alex, underwent a big back operation. Very successful. In December 2018, he was admitted to hospital again. He couldn’t walk, sit, stand, nothing. He suffered pins and needles in both legs so […]
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