After the lovely story of Paul’s road I’d like to share a modern version that I received from Cor van Rooyen about God’s interventions in a person’s life (author unknown and names changed): Terry’s safari I was in my workroom turning a piece of wood into something useful when my wife came in. She never […]
Read morePaul’s autobiography is fascinating. Paul pushed life into the red. Everything he did he did passionately and at full speed. If he believed in something, nothing could faze him. If he believed in the same things that his parents did, everything not in line with that simply had to be wiped out. Therefore, he hunted […]
Read moreOne of my best friends is a missionary in the Ukraine. They are assisting the church there to get back on its feet and to make a difference wherever they go. The small congregations that already exist have nothing. Actually, they can’t survive, but still they are driven to proclaim Jesus’ message wherever they go. […]
Read moreIt’s always important that every member of a team do his or her part. It’s no use the Springboks having the best and fastest backline and the biggest and roughest frontline, but at the lineouts the hooker’s throw-ins are not straight so that the opponents win the ball. And in the scrums the hooker is […]
Read moreThere is a continuous struggle between light and dark in the world and it seems as if the dark is winning. Just look at the TV news one evening or take the newspaper and make two columns. In one column list all the dark stories and in the other stories about light. You and I […]
Read moreClick here to go to the Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:1-3 Hi you I’ve been so busy recently that I never got around to writing to you. I have to drive the children to their sports activities, then to all those extra classes and in the evenings I have to check their homework. Sometimes it feels […]
Read moreClick here to go to the Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 When I read this part I was instantly reminded about a song by Jan de Wet, My nooi is in ’n nartjie. It’s a bit difficult to translate it into English, but essentially it’s about every woman’s smell and what it means to the poet. […]
Read moreClick here to go to the Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 Friends from the Southern Cape stayed over with us after attending a friend’s funeral. He was an academic who had approached everything in life in a calculated and clinical manner. In his life, there was no space for faith in God, because his empirical brain […]
Read moreClick here to go to the Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 At the moment our family is watching a Bible series on Sunday nights called The Bible. It’s a series of movies about the Bible. It reminds one of the reality of the events in the Bible and helps you to visualise the people as real […]
Read more1 Corinthians 15 I Skype a friend from school days. He has sold his businesses in Australia. He is tired of working ten to twelve hours a day. He is going to travel through Africa with his family for three months. The day before their departure his new partner rushed into the office with the […]
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