We live in an age in which God’s glory was must be driven through gospel-centred, Christ-centred, God-glorifying churches. For this to happen, the gospel must go to people in word, power and the Holy Spirit—and with full assurance. Our churches...

To be faithful in the mission that Christ has given to his church, we need to be deliberate and intentional in planting self-governing churches. It is one thing to respond to requests from people to plant works where there is need, but there is need...

Why does the church exist? Even if we can give the theologically correct question, what does it look like practically? The church exists, not for itself, but for mission—to carry out the mission that Jesus Christ gave to it. That mission is to...

The parable of the growing seed offers great encouragement that, despite the mundane—in fact, perhaps even because of the mundane—we can expect the miraculous. Jesus’ words help us to understand that the mundane is a means towards the...

The early Christians devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching. They learned from those who had learned from Jesus. Fundamentally, this kind of learning is to continue today. Teachers and preachers are called to faithfully deliver the...

“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God,” wrote Paul (Romans 10:17). Since we are saved by grace alone through faith alone, it is everlastingly essential that we pay attention to God’s word, to the message of Christ. Failure to...

The concept of the holy kiss is one that has been largely lost on South African Christians in the 21st century. Yet it is a command of God, and therefore faithful Christians, and faithful churches, must wrestle with the meaning of this command and...

In the text before us, Jesus tells a story about a sower sowing the word of God and, in the end, receiving a great harvest. His intention was for this story to serve as a mirror into the lives of those who heard it, and for us today as we read and...

Queen Rania of Jordan once said, “Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu—that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone—we could learn a lot. There’d be less hatred and more...

God’s people have experienced a mighty salvation. A crucial piece of living out that salvation is to lead a life of remembering that salvation.