From Tears to Triumph – The Power of a Praying Mother.
The world celebrates the New Year with fireworks and celebrations. You and I are left with a reality of not much to celebrate. If you live in Israel, Gaza, or Ukraine after years of war or the USA struggling to make ends meet – we all face 2025 with our challenges. I was reflecting on […]
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Are you in God’s other Book?
Mal 3 v 16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a Book of Remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name. One way to be heard by God is to be a sociable person who speaks […]
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20 years – God is Faithful
Around Thanksgiving 2000 – I was saved in a correctional facility when God crashed into my life and He proved to be the opposite of all I believed Him to be. The Chaplain challenged me with Ps 37 v 4 – Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your […]
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The God of the wrong people
Most believers attend a congregation because or proximity to their home and/or because they have friends they fellowship with. We overlook small differences in beliefs, as long as we all agree on major doctrines. Soon we realize there is no perfect church. Yeshua has a strong word to 5 of the 7 churches of Revelation […]
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Why study Church History?
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecc 1v 9) It is impossible to appreciate that scripture without understanding. We act as if we stumbled on a perfect set of Paleo-Hebrew Dead Sea scrolls and Yeshua led us into the desert like […]
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Chanukah Newsletter
Dear friends: The Bible declares that there is nothing new under the sun. What happened back then is happening today. We are only building upon the sins of the fathers. Sadly, the events at the U.N. on Friday – will only get worse. We as a nation now have chosen to curse and betray the ‘siblings […]
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Simcha Torah – The joy of the Lord
We talk of Joy of the Lord. He celebrates a sinner repenting – and mourns the death of the wicked……. I wonder which He does more of? I see grief and regret that He ever made mankind, at Noah’s time. Gen 6 v 7-8 So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have […]
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“Afraid” by Betty Stam
Afraid Afraid? Of what? Afraid to see the Saviour’s face, To hear His welcome, and to trace The glory gleam from wounds of grace? Afraid – of THAT? Afraid? Of what? A flash – a crash – a pierced heart! Darkness – Light – O Heaven’s art! A wound, of His a counterpart! Afraid […]
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“Chocolate Soldiers” by C.T. Studd
HEROISM is the lost chord; the missing note of present-day Christianity! Every true soldier is a hero! A SOLDIER WITHOUT HEROISM IS A CHOCOLATE SOLDIER! Who has not been stirred to scorn and mirth at the very thought of a Chocolate Soldier? In peace true soldiers are captive lions, fretting in their cages. War gives […]
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Nelson Mandela
Normally I write impersonal commentaries of issues that affect the church, Israel or society at large. This one is personal. Mandela’s name was unfamiliar to me even as I grew up only a few miles from where he spent 27 years. Living in the fairest Cape and playing on its beaches we saw Robbin Island […]
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Last Sermon
He waited among the trees In prayer alone with fear No peace among those Olive leaves His final sermon drawing near His pulpit was a rough-cut tree His cloak bloody and bare His final words choked free Below a mob only stared He preached pardon to a thief Then […]
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Letter to the editor
Dear Sir /Madam I am now a US citizen who came here from Africa. In various African churches, we sang about America the beautiful and “amber waves of grain” from donated American hymnals. Relief agencies would fly in Mielie Meel (Corn Flour) and other staples while bare foot Africans stood in line waiting. Women carrying […]
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