During lockdown we challenged everybody who were spinning at home to do a 100km within a set time. Someone offered to make a big donation to a local soup kitchen for everyone who managed to do this. I put my hand up and started spinning like mad! Somewhere along the way the meter rolled over […]
Read more(Read Hebrews 7:1-25, preferably in The Message, to get a good idea of the Old Testament priests.) The priests in the Old Testament basically had two functions. The first was to be the middleman or mediator between God and the Israelites. The priest talked to God and then conveyed His message to the people. In […]
Read moreWe spend the biggest part of the day at work. The place where you work, the people who work with you, the people you work for, have a significant impact on you. What do you look like when you get home after a bad day at work? Your mood is lower than your feet and […]
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 moreThey say growing old isn’t for sissies, because as you know, everything becomes a challenge. Sometimes just to get out of bed has to happen in stages. Like me when I realised on Saturday that it was time to replace the swimming pool pipes. I didn’t want to, but there was a leak somewhere. From […]
Read moreI’m getting a bit tired of the news, because the majority is bad news. Yes, there is some good news, but it’s not aired, because it’s not sensational enough and doesn’t pay the bills. Why are people so attracted to bad news? Bad news isn’t positive. On the contrary, it steals your peace and before […]
Read moreSometimes I wonder why God still wants to have anything to do with me. Really. I feel I simply don’t make it. I pull in the wrong direction too often. I often fail the keep calm test. I’m more lukewarm than hot. I often do wat I know I shouldn’t do. Then I wonder why […]
Read moreNataniël has a way of putting things. He said this about gratitude: “Get a dog and call him ‘Thank you’. Every time you call him will remind you how grateful you need to be for everything you have and everything you receive undeservedly, by grace.” 8 … if we have bread on the table and […]
Read moreNadia (not her real name) tells this story: I want to witness about God’s change in our place of work. On 1 April 2017, I started as supervisor in a new subdivision. This subdivision was going through a difficult period due to sensitive enquiries in the public service. The first day that I called a […]
Read moreA doctor phoned me and said he had a man with him who has started writing letters to end his life. He was depressed. The man gave my name to the doctor to fetch him, because he couldn’t be left alone. Phew, I haven’t seen a man so deep in a dark pit in a long time. He sat there crying […]
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