Beware of romanticizing adoption and sonship by Cornelia van Deventer
“Homecoming is a difficult process.” This is my advice to any parent considering adoption. That day when you load the car seat and bring your child home is not ...
“Homecoming is a difficult process.” This is my advice to any parent considering adoption. That day when you load the car seat and bring your child home is not ...
Kicking off the year, I began re-reading Genesis to the children––an all too familiar story that struck me anew. For after God finished his creative work of turning chaos ...
In this blog post, Jillian Gorven and Randulph Spaine—both married, though not to each other—offer insightful reflections on gender, obedience, and grace in marriage. A wife… Over the last ...
While our seminary staff were studying 1 Corinthians 2 together, Elise Kisungu asked a pointed question: Many self-appointed “prophets” use 1 Corinthians 2:9–16 to validate their strange teachings and ...
During my university years, I befriended a small group of people who believed in the principle of “speaking life.” In short, since the power of life and death lies ...
Being raised and having completed all my schooling and even my BTh in Afrikaans, my language skills were fairly underdeveloped when I switched over to writing in English as ...
Intrigued by an aged and untouched picture book on the bookshelf, I flipped through an old Rhodesian history book[1] which I had collected during our seven years of living ...
In the nineties there was a song1 that quickly became affiliated with the Rugby World Cup, “I get knocked down, but I get up again. You’re never gonna keep ...
What goes through your mind when you see someone in need—the person begging at the robot, the guy hanging around outside the fast-food outlet, the lady handing out her ...
I have always been intrigued by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Believers often desire for the Spirit to gift them with the amazing power to heal the sick, ...