Dialogue

Pentecost: The fire has left the building

The fire has left the building.

Ascension Day 2023

Today is Ascension Day. You may have it marked in your calendar and it also used to be a South African holiday. Many of us understand the importance of Good Friday, when Jesus died for our sins, and Easter Sunday when he was raised from the dead. But for many Christians and churches, Jesus’s ascension is simply an afterthought to Easter and Good Friday.

Today I want to reflect on the significance of Jesus’s ascension, exaltation and specifically His enthronement, in hopes that this significant and climactic event in Jesus’s life is not just an afterthought for you today.

Letter to the Corinthians/Pretorians: No more boasting

Letter to the Corinthians Pretorians :No more boasting

Letter to the Corinthians/Pretorians: A Foolish Faith

A Foolish Faith. 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Letter to the Corinthians/Pretorians: Disunity in the church

Disunity in the church: It is humbling to admit, but sin has the potential to make us better at war than we are at peace.

Letter to the Corinthians/Pretorians: Introduction

Conversion changes everything. Now everything needs to change.

Living in light of the Light

So Jesus is risen - what happens next?

Easter 2023: Resurrection Sunday

Easter 2023: Resurrection Sunday

Pasover 2023: Still Saturday

We discuss the stillness of Saturday between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between the crown of thorns and the crown of life. All hope seems lost, death and destruction have conquered after all, leaving us in hopeless darkness.

The talk aims to answer three questions:
1.) Why was still Saturday necessary?
2.) Are we living on still Saturday now?
3.) What is our hope amidst still Saturday?

- Anna Gouws

 

Into the Wilderness: Audience of One

How true freedom lies in the spiritual practice of secrecy.