Not for sensitive readers. There are stories from the past I don’t want to hear, much less write about, but this is one we need to tackle. Daisy de Melker poisoned two of her husbands and her son with arsenic. All three of them died a terrible death. I read on Netwerk24 what Jans Rautenbach […]
Read moreWhen God comes knocking at your door, He comes to add value. The value of the roads of death that you won’t have to walk one day. Jesus paid with His life on the cross at Golgotha for this. This adds life-saving value for people. This option is available to all people. Anyone can open […]
Read moreThe altar was central to the Old Testament. The altar was the main channel of communication between the people and God. It was the place where the people brought sacrifices to God. It was the place where blood had to flow for the people’s sin. The altar and the animals sacrificed on it were people’s […]
Read moreThere’s this story about a man who often went mountain-climbing. He was an experienced mountain-climber and enjoyed discovering all the different routes. One day, on a new route, he stopped for lunch. He opened his packed lunch and thanked God for the privilege to eat in such a beautiful place. The climber got so caught […]
Read moreI was watching a Netflix series called The Queen’s Gambit. In the first episode the main character, Beth, and her mother was driving in the car. Her mother tells her to close her eyes and crashes into a truck in a head-to-head collision. Instantly, Beth’s status changes to that of orphan, because she doesn’t know […]
Read moreWhile I was a student, I used to drive the InterCape buses, spending many nights on the road. One holiday I even drove as much as 43 000km. With a bus. At night. But I enjoyed doing it and the R50 a day that I earned was a lot of money for a student. One […]
Read moreOne thing cannot be disputed: One day everybody will stand before God. Nobody can avoid this. And my stomach turns, because I wonder what I would say. When I look at my life and see where I, to put it nicely, smashed the boundaries of life, I do not look forward to that meeting. Then […]
Read moreIt’s fairly hard for me to write about the same subject again and again. I think the author of Hebrews can teach me a lot about that. He writes over and over again about what Jesus had done. I suspect he does it to really push that point home. I think he is afraid that […]
Read moreYou always have to lose something before you realise what you actually had. I’m privileged to hardly ever fall ill, but about once in about every three to four years the flu strikes me down. Because I’m so restless at night, I decide to sleep in isolation in one of the children’s bedrooms. In my […]
Read moreChange is part of life. Just look back at your childhood. We didn’t have screens. We didn’t even have a TV. To be honest, my dad said it was from the devil and that he would never buy one. When he accepted a call to a new congregation, the previous one gave him a big […]
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