You think other people are like you. We think we all play life by the same rules and do things the same way, but it’s not like that. I’ve burned my fingers that way. When I still worked in business, people occasionally visited with the proverbial Bible under their arm speaking the language of a […]
Read moreI must bury a friend. I’ve probably known him since birth. Our paths ran side by side at some stages in life. The longest was perhaps when I farmed on the neighbouring farm and helped get the grapes into the cellar. He was a brilliant winemaker. He won the General Smuts Cup (for the best […]
Read moreLet’s start with a straightforward question: In what or in whom do you put your trust? I suspect most of God’s children would say they put their trust in our Heavenly Father. When the financial sums don’t add up and your debt keeps getting bigger and bigger or when someone grabs your business out from […]
Read moreA 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 moreI am an ardent Gumtree fan. For those of you who don’t know, it’s an online platform where you can buy and sell things. I’ve bought and sold many things on Gumtree. The drone that we use to record material for our YouTube sermons had to be replaced. We then received a substantial donation from […]
Read moreThe people to whom James wrote the letter knew about wheeling and dealing, as the saying goes. The merchants bought stock in one place and then moved to the next place to sell the stock there. It could easily take a year to get rid of all their stock. While the merchants were in town, […]
Read moreI’ve never been a fan of the beach. My mom says that when I was a baby, I didn’t like touching the sand. If she tried to put me down, I immediately started crying and pulled up my legs. My dad always said the sea made him feel sticky and actually only went to the […]
Read moreTheo sent me this very touching story: At the beginning of 1971 my dad lost the farm and everything with it. He got a job with Sasol in Sasolburg and we moved from Jacobsdal to Sasolburg. It was a brand-new house. It had no garden and no high walls around it. After three months the […]
Read moreA man started talking to me via our website chat function. He needed to talk to someone. He said he needed to put the challenges that he and his wife were facing out there. He needed to talk to someone, because he didn’t know what to do. The issue was taking over his life. It […]
Read moreCastle Lager has a slogan: “It stood the test of time”. And yes, the beer has been around for more than 125 years and available in 40 countries. It has certainly been tested by thousands of beer drinkers and has passed the test with flying colours. I can still remember how we had the strength […]
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