Dear Sola 5 churches, We are excited to announce the launch of Heritage Baptist Church (HBC) in Potchefstroom. It has been our desire, especially as a church plant, to be involved in planting other churches and God has graciously opened a door for us in Potchefstroom. We are trusting that...
In his introduction to Lectures to my Students Charles Spurgeon wrote that, “No work can possibly confer a greater benefit upon mankind than the training of ministers whom God has chosen, for around them spring up churches, schools, and all the agencies of religion and philanthropy. As we are commanded...
Apologies from the Administrator of this Website: There may be some misunderstanding regarding this blog post. The article itself is an extract from Kevin Roy’s book and was not written by Tyrell Haag Zion City RSA. The Story of the Church in South Africa. Page 84-85. (Cape Town, South African Baptist Historical...
Heritage Baptist has had an exciting few months seeing the Lord work in our midst. In September 2014 God answered our prayers for a building that we could call home and we were able to set down roots in the community. Apart from our worship services, we were able to...
The Motivation Praise the Lord for His faithfulness, Heritage Baptist Church continues to grow, from initual Lord’s Day meetings of 10 souls to meetings now of between 55 to 70 souls. To see photos of our meetings click here The Challenge Our biggest challenge has been to find a suitable venue...
Last Monday we began looking at the ‘Sanctity of life’, we looked at two reasons from Genesis 9:5 that human life is sacred. Today I want to add a final reason and then finish this series with some implications next week. If you didn’t read last week’s post you may...
This past Sunday was sanctity of life Sunday in America, and this coming Sunday it will be in South Africa. With this in mind I thought I would write about what the sanctity of life is. The principle is human life is sacred; sacred in a different way than everything...
It is a great privilege for Heritage Baptist to be the newest member of Sola 5. We are a church plant in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, an area that we believe is of critical importance if we want to see the gospel reach and change the movers and shakers of...
Freedom is a complex thing; one freedom invariably affects another freedom. For example if you want the freedom of a longer life, you may have to limit the freedom of being able to eat whatever you want. This can also be seen in the history of South Africa: Liberties were...
Late last year my attention was drawn to a website called “Klout: The Standard of Influence.” The website gives you a Klout Score and defines it like this: “The Klout Score measures a person’s overall online influence on a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being the most influential....
