In the early days of our ministry I wrote a story about moerse gaps, an Afrikaans swear word describing something very big. It was a letter to my friend whose dad had died in a car accident and I wanted to describe the enormous gap that his dad had left behind with his sudden and […]
Read moreSometimes you have things in your life that hold you back. Some of these drain your energy to such an extent that you cannot enjoy life fully. Sometimes these are things we do to ourselves. Sometimes these are things other people have done to us. Usually it’s the latter that fills our hearts with hatred. […]
Read moreMany people, including me, overlook the impact of the letter to the Colossians, because it actually has a lot of good and practical advice for us as Christians today. Each and every one of us is confronted by our own misdeeds every now and then. This is the next confrontation: 7It wasn’t long ago that […]
Read moreMy dad was a wonderful man. There were many things he could do well and one of those was to give use a hiding. When we did something wrong, we immediately ran to our mom, because you could hardly feel it when she did it. And fortunately, my dad did not give us another hiding […]
Read moreSome time ago I woke up with the question: Why should every school pay school fees for the implementation of IT for learning? By the way, I’m on the governing body of a high school in our town and IT is my portfolio. At that stage we were hard at work to see what the […]
Read moreI received the following e-mail from Jana (not her real name): My friend’s husband has a problem. The worst thing is that this man had given his heart to Jesus and had stopped for a long time. But then he fell into the trap set by Satan again. She told me that when she wakes and sees […]
Read more5And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: s*xual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. Sometimes you do something wrong. The next morning you feel so guilty; then it’s pushed under the blanket, hopefully forgotten forever. But then […]
Read moreAfter 40 years I was back at my primary school in Somerset West where my daughter took part in an evening athletics event. I could hardly believe it, but one of my old teachers, Mr. Le Roux, was still there and was the starter for the evening. I walked over and introduced myself. With such […]
Read moreI like watching the guys on the DStv programme, Gas Monkey Garage. They might not look so good, but the work they do is amazing – if you love cars it will take your breath away. They take an old beat-up car that belongs on the scrap heap and transform it into a brand-new masterpiece. […]
Read moreEach of us is being shaped by the things going on in our heads. What we permit in our thoughts determines what we eventually become. Sometimes the thoughts in our heads can act as a hand brake. If you think you’re not good enough, the probability that you might get to the top one day […]
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