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Fatal Blasphemy

In this year’s 89 kilometer Comrades Marathon between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, two runners died. City Press reported: CMA doctor Jeremy Boulter confirmed that Phakamile Ntshiza and Mzameleni Mthembu had experience distress at different points along the route and passed away. Ntshiza reportedly passed away while running close to the halfway mark, before he could be […]

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Ananias and Sapphira

Yesterday we saw that we are all sinners and we also saw that there are those who commit the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. This sin is the one that leads to eternal death. There is no forgiveness. The day before we made acquaintance with Joseph who was nicknamed Barnabas because of […]

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Salvation from Sin

Sin is sin, we can’t get away from that. Whether it is a “small” sin or a “big” sin, sin is sin. We are all guilty of sinning, even as Christians. Whether we are new Christians or seasoned Christians we tend to sin … and will until we die … but there are some sins […]

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Joseph

So many people who say they follow Jesus have ulterior motives. There was a time and this might still be true when people came to Church to either meet men or women, sponge on the vulnerable or to network for personal gain. Although this happens everywhere in secular circles, to do so in a Church […]

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Assistance and Relief

There are many needy people in the world and if you are able, it is great if you could assist some of them. Naturally the problem is whether the funds reach the needy. We have seen in our country that this is not always the case … as bookkeeper was found guilty of defrauding the […]

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The Body of Christ

There is only one force and power that can conquer the dreaded disease of materialism. Each one of us, like it or not have this wickedness imbedded within. Our world that is secular uses every trick it can find to generate a materialistic world because this is what makes the world go round … this […]

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Authentication

I am certain all who read this Daily Note have been witnesses to weird and wonderful advertising from groups identifying themselves as Christian. Although I have mentioned it before, there are Churches with signs and banners declaring things like “The Home of Signs and Wonders”, “Come for the Supernatural” and “Beyond the Word”. Each of […]

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Report Back

When you do something or experience something and you tell someone about it, you are actually giving that person or those persons a report back. After the healing of the man who had been crippled from birth, which exceeded 40 years: Ac 4:22 For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old Peter […]

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I Can’t Keep it in

As a young man, one of the songs on the hit parade was Cat Stevens’ song, “I can’t keep it in”. The lyrics of the first verse went like this … “Oh, I can’t keep it in, I can’t keep it in, I’ve gotta let it out, I’ve gotta show the world, world’s gotta see, […]

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Visual Evidence

Jeffery M Pollock says … “We learn approximately 80 percent from what we see and merely 15 percent from what we hear, the most powerful proof you can provide at a trial is visual.” Years ago we owned a unit in a Sectional Title Complex. We had one worker employed to do maintenance and gardening. […]