A penfriend from the Eastern Cape writes beautifully. Between the words one sees the uphill road: My silence is the result of a broken computer. As a bonus, my printer also refused to keep printing on weekends. My sermon was only four pages long when my little printer came to a stop without any last-day […]
Read moreLife isn’t easy! It’s as if every second person is suffering from cancer. Car accidents keep getting bigger and bigger and wreak incredible havoc. Without prior notice, the sun sets over people’s financial landscape causing a disaster. Suddenly we learn words like palliative care. People stand in long queues at the MRI scanning machine. My […]
Read moreThis saying was born from my way of life: I wish I could live as close to the Lord in the good times as I do in the hard times, because then the hard times would not be necessary. This certainly does not apply to everybody, but I know in hard times I’m much closer […]
Read moreA 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 moreThere is so much injustice in the world. So many people who suffer. I caught the police commissioner’s quarterly report: 5 760 people murdered, 10 006 people raped in South Africa … Shocking. How many people’s lives were broken apart by this, some completely destroyed? What is wrong with those people who did this? We […]
Read moreWow! How many times can one reflect on one Bible book? This is the 200th time we’re working with Hebrews! I’m going to ask a weird question. I wonder what made God change from the angry Old Testament God to the loving God of the New Testament? The Old Testament is filled with laws, and […]
Read moreA friend tells this story about the shop they had in a rural area. If they caught kids stealing, they would call in the parents. The parents had to give their children a hiding right there and then as punishment for stealing. Eventually they had to stop this practice, because the parents became too rough. […]
Read moreI received an email from a woman asking for urgent prayer. A year ago, her husband was offered a post in Cape Town and they upped sticks and relocated. She couldn’t get a transfer and had to resign. After sending out many, many CVs, she still hadn’t gotten a job. Now her husband had been […]
Read moreI chatted to a family member early this morning. I knew she would be awake, because she’s getting regular blood transfusions to treat an aggressive leukaemia. Later, she sent me a voice note describing what had happened the previous evening, how the doctor was screaming instructions to everybody around her bed – basically to keep […]
Read moreI was already an entrepreneur when I was still at school. Not that I knew that was what it was called. As a widow my Mom worked hard to put food on the table, but I had to work for my own pocket money. And I wasn’t afraid of work. One day we got a […]
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