Paul was a big man. He turned the world around for God. With everything in him he believed that Jesus’ message of salvation had to be spread to all the nations and that is why he left no stone unturned. Therefore, nothing got in his way. Even though he was often threatened, even thrown in […]
Read moreI am very often speechless when I see how powerfully God works. Not only in the past, but in the present as well. Just look at the amazing growth of Kruispad. This clearly shows the Holy Spirit at work. We started in 2010 with 300 people whose e-mail addresses one way or another flew through […]
Read moreReally, Eskom, one has to be extremely patient working with you. But my patience is wearing thin by now! My work, like that of many other South Africans, come to a stop when there is no power in the wires. But there is no time for sitting back and relaxing. One more interruption of the […]
Read moreAfter 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 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 […]
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