Q: I’m getting married in June. My fiancée and I want to have a great life-long relationship, so we’re asking various people for advice and input. What’s your perspective? Graeme: Every couple wants a loving marriage that’ll endure for the long haul.  So it’s worth asking: “Why do so few relationships seem to actually experience that kind of genuine intimacy?” I think part of the answer lies in what we expect from relationships. The primary reason we’re attracted to people is because of the way they make us feel. Now, I want as much as anyone to experience good feelings in my marriage. B ..read more

Sikelela – Lord Heal Our Land is the name of a new “song for the nation” that was released last Friday by withJoy, a non-profit Christian Music publisher based in Johannesburg Laurie Woolacott, 75, of withJoy told Gateway News that he and withJoy co-director Thulas Zondi, who have been collaborating on the song since late last year, and their producer Andy Maritz, pushed very hard to get the song out before the upcoming elections because of their sense that it carries an important message of repentance, unity and hope for this time. The song, which features the Soweto Gospel Choir, references ..read more

Originally published in CBN News Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Los Angeles, California this week in a unified front to counter the antisemitic movement that’s been sweeping college campuses across America. A “United For Israel” march organized by Christians and Jews underway right off the @USC campus pic.twitter.com/rD8jHPtLQx — Jacob Wheeler (@JWheelertv) May 9, 2024 Washington-based Pursuit Church and Sean Feucht’s “Let Us Worship” hosted the inter-faith “United for Israel” rally at the University of Southern California (USC) on Wednesday evening. The USC college campu ..read more

Jerusalemites watch a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, regarding the lawsuit initiated by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide, Jan.uary 26 (PHOTO: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90/JNS). By Rolene Marks — Originally published in JNS The first “Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine” will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on May 10 to 12. The conference is billed as bringing together an international host of anti-Israel activists “towards a global movement to dismantle Israel’s settler colonialism and apartheid”. According to the “con ..read more

Gateway Radio 89.6fm Bible giveaway outreach Gateway Radio 89.6fm, a Christian community radio station serving the rural Hessequa region in the Western Cape Garden Route region, is seeking financial support to get back on air after SENTECH cut off its broadcast signal for non payment. Sally Nicholls, founder and station manager of Gateway Radio said by God’s grace they are still reaching tens of thousands of people across the world through streaming but they need help to continue reaching and supporting the local Hessequa community who the Lord has called them to serve. Many local listeners wh ..read more

A Week of Bounty offers a simple, inexpensive way for the Church to show SA that Jesus is the ultimate source of peace and hope, says Willie Crew of the World Mission Centre With the upcoming elections and national challenges such as unemployment, the impact of natural and man-made disasters, and rising costs of basic food and services, it’s more important than ever for the Church to be a visible force and offer support wherever possible, says Willie Crew of the World Mission Centre. “This is a significant moment for the Church in South Africa to show up in a big way for our fellow citizens. I ..read more

PHOTO: 2017 File picture/REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/The Christian Post Originally published in Religion Unplugged Neary 50 Christians have been killed in a series of militant attacks on villages in Benue, Plateau and Kaduna states in late April through early May, with dozens more wounded and displaced, according to news reports. Militant Fulani killed six Christians in southern Kaduna on May 5, followed by 28 Christians in Benue from April 20 to 22, and 12 Christians on April 19 in Plateau, Christian Daily International and Morning Star News said in a series of reports from May 1 to 7, quoting ey ..read more

Ryan Smit programme director of the Wilberforce Academy, South Africa applies a ‘biblical Christian worldview’ perspective to the question: ‘How should a Christian relate to political authority?’ As with all other areas of life and culture, Christians’ engagement with political structures and processes begins with seeking to think Christianly about this topic in order that we might live (act/work) Christianly in practice (Romans 12). Having a solid working knowledge of the WHY and WHAT of a biblical Christian worldview, therefore, is a minimum requirement for everyone who wants to be faithful ..read more

A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth I have never come close to losing a child, but we have had our share of scares, and nights spent in a push-back easy chair alongside a hospital bed. My heart has forgotten how many times its jumped gears into fifth as I’ve raced to the site of a scream, a raging fever, a prostrate little body on the ground after a tumble; but it does not bear personal testimony to the pain of having a child die. I cannot conceive of what that must be like; and rightly so, because to try and imagine ..read more

The UK atheist bus ad campaign that ironically sparked interest in God. (PHOTO: GodReports) By Michael Ashcraft and Charles Gardener — Originally published in GodReports By most accounts, the 2009 UK atheist ad campaign on buses was a flop. It misfired so badly, Christians contributed to fund it. The ads read: There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life. “The great irony of the Atheist Bus Campaign was that, by attempting to make people forget about God, it did precisely the opposite,” Justin Brierley observed in The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God. It was so m ..read more