building a community of grace
How can a young person keep their way blameless? By guarding it according to the Word. Psalm 119:9 How can a young person guard his/her way according to the Word? By being rooted and grounded in the Word How can a young person be rooted and grounded in the Word Of the several possible answers... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 29th October 2023 When we hear of the word Reformation we always tend to point fingers at others and say- they need reformation and change. We opt ourselves out of the body of the church and often say “they need change” rather than we need a change. On this Reformation Sunday... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- My great-grandfather, Beckers Wellem, occasionally parroted nationalist cant like “A true German does not like a Frog”, the English pejorative term here taking the place of the original ‘Franzen’ which readers with a more extensive knowledge of German culture will likely recognize as being traceable... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The outcry is horrendous, the pain unbearable, the brutality of hate horrific! Images of innocent young people celebrating the feast of tabernacles, families torn out of their sleep, children, babies, women, men, elderly mercilessly slaughtered by terrorists of Hamas under the fire-lit night sky of... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday the 15th October 2023 Reading: Exodus 32:1-14 Do you believe in God? This is an often-asked question today. It is interesting to note that more and more in many affluent countries in the world tend to affirm in the negative. And a very interesting question is Why is there a decline in... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 8th October 2023 Reading: Psalm 19 Long ago in the days when digital money was not in vogue a mother faced an issue. She would toil all day and earn her livelihood and bring the money home. Her husband who did not go to work would steal that money from wherever... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Last week, I completed teaching a unit on mathematics as part of the course ‘Theory of Knowledge’ at UWC Robert Bosch College. It’s not an ‘area of knowledge’ that I particularly enjoy teaching, as I have limited background and competence in mathematics. During this year’s... Continue Reading →
Writing to the Colossians Paul affirms the nature of the new identity in Christ - You have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator. In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 1st October 2023 Reading: Exodus 17:1-7 There are three realities of life all of us live with. The first is that life is a journey in bumpy terrain. There are ups and downs in this journey but the journey goes on. The second is that through these ups and downs our... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Featured image by Frank Licorice, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dr. Timothy Keller (another of my heroes of the faith) passed away on May 19th, 2023 and among his last words to his family he kept repeating that he couldn’t wait to see Jesus... Continue Reading →
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