by Tsholo Kukuni | 14 Dec 2022 | Articles
As the proverbial saying goes “a little Greek is a dangerous thing.” I think Hebrew scholars would argue the exact same thing about a little Hebrew. 1 Word studies, knowing about parsing verbs, declining nouns, tenses, aspect, etc. is not tantamount to reading the...
by Tsholo Kukuni | 5 Oct 2022 | Articles
I set out to write this brief article about deacons in the church because I think that the role of deacons is a neglected topic, or a topic not taught well, in the church. The other reason I wrote this article is because I am aware that churches differ on what kinds...
by Tsholo Kukuni | 29 Sep 2022 | Articles
This article is the last instalment of a three-part series based on Christian charity. We are Sola 5. In one of our core values we affirm the following: “that in essentials there must be unity, in nonessentials liberty and in all things charity.” The latter, namely...
by Doug Van Meter | 3 Aug 2022 | Articles
South Africa’s loss is England’s gain. So we would all concur as we say goodbye to our brother and fellow pastor, Peter Sammons. Peter, having accepted the call to Artillery Street Evangelical Church in Colchester, England, leaves our land and does so bequeathing a...
by Joachim Rieck | 13 Jul 2022 | Articles
Of the five solas, solus Christus may be most pivotal. Without the person and work of Jesus Christ, we have nothing to talk about. Jesus is the interpretative key of the Bible (sola Scriptura). Jesus is the only means by which one may receive God’s grace (sola...
by Tsholo Kukuni | 29 Jun 2022 | Articles
This post is a follow-up to the one I previously wrote on “a charitable understanding of the nature of what is biblical or unbiblical.” In that post, I attempted to persuade you to be charitable towards people you differ with or disagree with on certain doctrinal...