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An African response to a Christianity Today article

A few weeks ago Christianity today published an article with the title, “Cost-effective Compassion: The 10 most popular strategies for helping the poor“. The linked article is discussed in the interview below(click the play button). You will also find two responses. One by myself and the other by my friend Schalk van Heerden – these …

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Some thoughts about discipleship

A few weeks ago JR, a friend of mine tweeted a link to a video. His tweet read, “This is the BEST explanation of #discipleship I have ever seen. I’ve watched this over a dozen times.” I like JR and value his opinions and thoughts and was therefore intrigued, so I watched the video. Since …

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Learning from Liam

A few weeks our family hung out at Wimpy (for our non South African friends Wimpy is a fast food restaurant). We like going to Wimpy because the kids love playing in the tunnels. At some Wimpy’s they have child minders looking after the children. They have their hands full with tens of toddlers running …

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Life as a house

[This is a post by my good friend Adri-Marie] Every developer and estate agent will tell you: House buying is all about location, location, location. I couldn’t agree more. Having just moved into my first own(ed) house in Cosmo City Ext.8, I’m already experiencing my location doing a work in me. The area I stay …