A friend of mine has a business that lends money to small businesses so that they can have the funds to give their small business wings. It’s a win-win situation and everybody benefits. Until they found out that one small business might just be a front. My friend became suspicious and started investigating and phoning. […]
Read moreA group of us went to eat at a restaurant in our town. Right from the start I could see something was wrong with one of my friends. As he sat down the words started pouring out. One contract that he had been working on for years was only partly awarded to him. This contract […]
Read moreA story is told of a wise woman who was traveling in the mountains and who found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveller who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveller saw the precious stone and asked the woman […]
Read moreI received an email from a church person that left me speechless. Initially. He said I was arrogant in forcing crossroads into his lounge and that he had never asked for it. I was upset, but when I saw their ministry’s motto was something like, “we care and make a difference”, I lost it. By […]
Read moreWhen we started our ministry in 2010, I thought long and hard about what the name should be, but nothing came to mind. The vision grew slowly: God’s Word in modern-day language. To help people use God’s Word at the crossroads in their lives again. And the word “crossroads” jumped out. We come to the […]
Read more8 … be helpful, wise, fair, reverent … This is how all of us must be like. I struggle with “wise, fair, reverent”. God should’ve known what humans are like and that it is in our nature to go off course. Yes, it’s easy when things are going well, but when things don’t go the […]
Read moreI get a lot of questions about many things in the Bible. How much water do you need to be baptised? How will we look when we move from this life to eternity? Is dancing sinful? May I ink this or that picture on my body? How is God involved in all of life’s pain […]
Read moreAfter writing the previous piece, I went to gym for my daily sweat session. For me, exercise doesn’t come naturally and it takes a whole lot of motivation just to get me there every time. But that is only half the motivation, because as I walk through the door it is hard not to simply […]
Read moreA young man is in trouble. He stole money, not a lot, just a R100, and now he is in trouble. He’s a good boy, with an open, honest face, but for whatever reason, a vice in his head led him astray so that he made the wrong choice. I ask him whether he thinks […]
Read morePhilippians 4:10-20 Paul has experienced both sides of life. He has done this so often that it was actually too much. However, he also had too little, actually nothing: 12I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. For many of us this sounds quite familiar. Especially about suffering hardship […]
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