I have a soft spot in my heart for pastors. Many people do not understand the role of a pastor simply because few people are in his midst as he conducts his business. I was chatting to a lady this evening who lives in another country. She mentioned how happy she was to be able […]
As you well know, the elders of the church in Benoni and I have been working on cutting branches off trees to give more visibility to the church for those driving past and for those in the grounds to see out into the streets. Over a period, we have been obtaining quotes to have the […]
There is a TV program about snakes and snakes catchers. It is interesting to see where snakes hide and how professional snake catchers hunt them and catch them. We don’t watch the program because the snake catchers’ language is not the best. However, the work they do is important as their philosophy is to protect […]
How does an Evangelical Christian come to terms with those who declare their Christianity to be solid, genuine and authentic when they believe in the mystic? On many occasions in the past, I was asked when going to the coast on holiday or on church business to bring back a bottle of sea water for […]
How safe and secure are you? Yes, that’s perhaps too general a question … maybe I ought to phrase it like this: how safe and secure are you as a person, and how safe and secure is your home? As I returned home from Benoni this afternoon, I drove past my one neighbour’s home only […]
Like so many places in our city, we have experienced power outages, not because of load shedding but because of the lack of maintenance. As an example, last week on Friday and Saturday we were without electricity because a sub-station in Centurion was hit by a thunderstorm cutting of power to large parts of the […]
or whatever reason, my dad used to say that when mom put on her face powder and lipstick, she was putting on her war paint. Many cultures use various types of colouring on their faces for different cultural festivals. We don’t just see this in our country but also in many other countries around the […]
During the middle of the 1970s, whilst living in Saldanha, Jenny and I visited our friends’ parents in Clamwilliam. This is a town situated in the Olifants River Valley in the Western Cape, some 200 kilometers north of the City of Cape Town. She is also the seat of the Cederberg Local Municipality. They were […]
We all eat and we all need to eat. God has given us a variety of foods to eat to sustain our bodies. Today is Jenny and my wedding anniversary, and our family members live far off and the very close friends we have have their lives pretty organized, especially on Saturdays. Very close friends […]
As I was preparing breakfast this morning I listened to the radio. The host and another radio person were talking about what one ought to do with the ashes of a deceased loved one. One said that his father’s wish was for his ashes to be scattered over Old Trafford, the ground where Manchester United […]