When it comes to continuationists of the reformed or at least gospel-centred ilk it is appropriate and wise to place the matter of the gifts in the secondary issue box. I love the warmth and genuineness expressed in Mahaney and the fire and passion in Piper. However, I recently shared an article Shreiner wrote called…
Category: Religion
The Dutch Reformed Church and Homosexuality
It’s been almost 4 weeks since the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa has made a significant change in its position regarding homosexuality, though it seems this was only a rubber stamping of a popular view in the denomination Not Learning From History The Dutch Reformed Church had a hard time in South Africa. As…
The Most Destructive Influences on Christianity in South Africa #5: The ZCC
The following is an excerpt from Dr Kevin Roy’s book “Zion City RSA” with a few alterations, additions and subtractions by me to make it more suitable for the blogging format, for the full bibliography see the bottom of the article The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) is one of South Africa’s largest churches, yet the facts around it’s founder…
The Most Destructive Influences on Christianity in South Africa #4: The Leaven of Liberalism
The following is an excerpt from Dr Kevin Roy’s book “Zion City RSA” with a few alterations, additions and subtractions by me to make it more suitable for the blogging format. For the full bibliography see the bottom of the article A profound struggle took place in the mid-1800’s for the Dutch Reformed Church. This struggle occurred between defenders…
The Most Destructive Influences on Christianity in South Africa #3: Mormonism Arrives
The Mormon missionaries arrived in South Africa Town on 19 April 1853. Jesse Haven, Leonard I. Smith and William H. Walker, arrived in at the Cape 16 years after the gospel first hit the shore. The first Latter-Day-Saints branch was organized at Mowbray in August that same year. The mission closed in 1865 with most of the converts…
Owen’s ‘Mortification of Sin’ (Infograph)
Have you ever tried to read John Owen’s works? Its not easy, at least that is the mass consensus. He writes technically in Shakespearian English. I think this is what has put most people off. No doubt you have some desire to read the book for two reasons at least; firstly, books on Mortification are…
The Last 100 Years of Christianity in Africa
Last week I came across a blog post that showed a few maps indicating how Christianity has grown in Africa in the last 100 years. I was fascinated by this and did some more searching, coming across much interesting material. Consider this first map of the make-up of Africa in 1910: …
Are You Putting God in a Box?
“Putting God in a box”, I’m not sure if you have ever been accused of this. I have been reflecting on the accusation, since I don’t want to be guilty of it. Normally it’s used as a theological defence for continuationists (those who believe the sign gifts that the Holy Spirit granted during the apostolic…
The Gospel in South Africa #15: Apartheid and the Church (Infograph)
This is the fifteenth in a series of posts I am doing on pivotal moments for the Gospel in South African history. If you would like to read the first in this series click here I have spent two weeks preparing today’s blog. After much writing and study I ended up with a document of some 3500 words…
Taking a look at Lectio Divina
Perhaps you don’t know what Lectio Divinia is, and in a few moments you may be smelling the beginnings of a polemical argument over an abstract point of Theology, I encourage you not to stop reading, because even if you don’t grasp everything, you can still benefit from this article in a number of ways.…
