Living Theology

When does a powerful worship experience point to genuine spiritual renewal? Brendon Naicker explores the relationship between Scripture, music and emotion, using the 2023 Asbury Outpouring to ask how we discern revival. The question is what we learn about Christ—and what remains when the music stops.

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Stop calling it faith. It’s begging.

Pastors soliciting their own congregations and calling it faith. Building funds pitched as tests of spirituality. “Kingdom expansion” used to justify asking other people to fund what we never planned to fund ourselves.

Somewhere along the way, the church learned to dress dependency up as devotion — and it’s time someone said so plainly.

Glorified Beggars by Brendon Naicker traces this culture from Ananias and Sapphira’s performance of generosity to the modern building campaign — then rebuilds what genuine biblical stewardship actually looks like: diligence without fear, giving without performance, contentment that holds steady in plenty or in hunger.

This book is frank in places. Uncomfortable in others. Ultimately hopeful.

📖 Available soon on Amazon.

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This podcast asks a question tech coverage usually skips: if we’re growing human neurons into commercial products, does moral status come from complexity — or from origin? It argues dignity attaches at the source, not at some future threshold of sophistication — while naming the assumption both AI and biocomputing quietly share: that mind is just matter arranged well enough.

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Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it. The United Nations has warned that the world needs urgent safeguards—but is regulation enough? In this episode of Living Theology, Brendon Naicker explores what the Bible has to say about technology, wisdom, the Tower of Babel, and why the greatest challenge of AI is not artificial intelligence, but the human heart. What does it mean to follow Christ in an age where machines are becoming increasingly intelligent?

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Step into one of the most pressing questions of our generation: Who should govern artificial intelligence?

As governments and technology leaders debate the future of AI, Christians are called to ask a deeper question. What does the story of the Tower of Babel teach us about human ambition, technological progress, and our dependence on God?

In this episode of Living Theology, Brendon Naicker explores how Genesis 11 speaks powerfully into today’s AI revolution. Technology itself is not the enemy—but when humanity places its confidence in its own achievements rather than its Creator, history has a habit of repeating itself.

Is AI our greatest threat—or does the greatest danger still lie within the human heart?

Join us as we discover why the gospel remains the answer in an age of astonishing innovation.

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A bowl of porridge. A pastor. One sentence.

And suddenly KZN is asking a question it's avoided for decades.

We're not here to drag anyone. We're here to ask the question hiding behind all the noise:

Do Christians still believe what Christianity actually teaches?

Tune in. It's going to be honest. It's going to be respectful.

And it's going to make you think.

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Whether you agree with her or not, one question cannot be ignored:

What happens when protest becomes more expensive than solving the problem?

Let’s think biblically.

🎙️ New episode of Living Theology.

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In this episode of Living Theology, we explore a sobering question: Who becomes the next outsider when societies begin searching for someone to blame? Drawing on the expulsion of Uganda’s Asian community under Idi Amin, South Africa’s current anti-immigration tensions, and the biblical call to love our neighbour, this episode examines how fear, resentment and identity politics can create new scapegoats. It is not a prediction of the future, but a warning from history. What can the Church learn before history repeats its familiar patterns?

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Most people know that Christians were persecuted by Rome.

Few know that before Rome came for the Christians, it first targeted another group.

In this episode, Brendon Naicker explores the rise of Emperor Diocletian, the Great Persecution, and the forgotten warning that history leaves behind: persecution rarely begins with the final target.

The outsider is labelled dangerous. Rights are removed. Silence follows. Then the circle expands.

The first target is never the last.

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As tensions surrounding immigration, national identity, unemployment, and social belonging continue to dominate public discourse, this episode moves beyond political slogans and asks deeper moral, historical, and theological questions.

Drawing from South Africa’s own history of exclusion and division, Brendon examines the dangers of defining people primarily by their nationality, ethnicity, language, or cultural background. Is the issue really immigration, or is there a deeper temptation at work within every society—the temptation to blame “the other” for our frustrations?

Through historical reflection, biblical insight, and ethical analysis, this episode considers how fear can become contempt, how categories can replace neighbours, and why societies that learn to exclude one group often find another group to exclude.

This is not a discussion about open borders or political ideologies. It is a conversation about human dignity, justice, belonging, and the image of God.

Join us as we ask:

* Can a nation enforce its laws without losing its humanity?

* What happens when fear becomes identity?

* Where does the logic of exclusion ultimately lead?

* And what does the Christian faith have to say about the stranger among us?

Whether you agree or disagree, this episode will challenge you to think more deeply about the kind of society we are becoming.

Because the future of a nation is determined not only by who enters its borders, but by the condition of its heart.

Living Theology with Brendon Naicker — where faith engages the questions that shape our world.

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