Missionary Minds

"A father must labor daily to make his home, regardless of the size, a happy one. He's the leader. I don't buy the "as the mother goes, so goes the home". That's not biblical. I'm not vague with my children as to the glories of having lots of kids one day. I know there's a good chance several of them will not be capable, but if they are, there is no greater joy."

Late last month Visual Capitalist published an article entitled: “The Top Economies in the World (1980-2017)”... The article presented both disappointing news and excellent news for the continent of Africa. The bad news for Africa is that no African nation has ranked in the top 15 worldwide economies since 1980. This is no surprise as Africa has long been the poorest continent in the world, this despite Africa being the most resource-abundant continent on the planet.

Elon Musk’s company Starlink, provides high-quality internet service via satellite to most places on earth. Many African countries have signed agreements with Starlink including Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Mozambique. It is likely that most of the African continent will have issued licenses to Starlink by the end of 2024. But not South Africa.

Get to know about Seth Meyers, missionary to the Tsongas of Limpopo, South Africa.

Last month at the International Association of Women Police, Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa urged the women of his country to take a greater role in fighting his nation’s problems with crime. Under the guise of “women’s empowerment”, the conference gathered thousands of senior women police officers from around Africa, from countries like Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Malawi.

If shouting, “Kill the Boer (white Afrikaners), kill the farmer!” (while making gun sounds and hand-gun motions) is not hate speech, what is? If “explicit words meant to incite violence” still has anything to do with hate speech, surely Malema should’ve been behind bars long ago.

What does it mean for a missionary to have a heart that beats for the mission field? How is that heart fostered? How does one keep that fire burning in the midst of tragedy and trial. Join us as we hear from Dave Smith, a man who has given his life to the cause of reaching the lost for the sake of the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

As the writer of Ecclesiastes exclaims, there is nothing new under the sun. That verse reigns true in the area of the challenges the Christian faces when it comes to culture and marriage. This episode takes a deep dive into the historical culture of Paul's day and how novel the Christian truths were even then.

South Africa’s highest court upheld a ruling that the corporal punishment of children at home violates a child’s rights and is therefore unconstitutional. This ruling was in agreement with the 2017 Constitutional Court decision that sentenced a father for severely spanking his 13-year-old son for watching a pornographic film on an iPad. The father argued that he as the parent has the right to discipline his son. The court disagreed.

A ghastly gas blast in Johannesburg causes shock and terror as a video of two-ton vehicles being launched into the air and petrified people panicking circulate on social media. How should Christians think about this? What does the bible have to say about such tragedies? All this and more on today's episode of The Africa Review In Five.