by Stephan van Kampen | 6 Oct 2025 | Articles, Christian Living
James 3 offers a sobering examination of the power of human speech and our universal struggle to control it. James begins his teaching with a stark reality that every believer must face: We all stumble in many ways, and nowhere is this more evident than in our speech...
by Siya Pantshwa | 5 Sep 2025 | Articles
Scripture is replete with examples of wandering and return, of people who drift away from God only to discover that his arms remain open to the. In 2 Chronicles 30:9, we find one such moment—a powerful invitation extended by King Hezekiah to a nation that had strayed...
by Thapelo Mpai | 19 May 2025 | Articles
Forgiveness lies at the heart of the gospel. But forgiveness is not, as some have suggested, unconditional. In fact, there are at least three biblical conditions to forgiveness. First, forgiveness is conditioned on the finished work of Christ. God does not simply...
by Stuart Chase | 4 Oct 2017 | Articles
It seems that we live in a world of memes. According to Merriam-Webster, a meme, strictly speaking, is “any idea, behaviour, style, or usage that spreads from one person to another within a culture.” Most people have come to associate the word, however, with a...
by Stuart Chase | 25 Jul 2017 | Articles
In our ongoing consideration of the seven things that God hates, we have considered “haughty eyes,” “a lying tongue,” “hands that shed innocent blood,” “a heart that devises wicked plans,” “feet that make haste to run to evil” and “a false witness who breathes out...
by Stuart Chase | 31 May 2017 | Articles
Four pastors were sitting down to lunch. Having just read James 5, in which James urges his readers to confess their sins to one another (v. 16), one suggested that they practice what they had read. They all agreed, and so the first pastor said, “I have been a little...
