By Christopher Haverly
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BOYS IN THE DOG BOX The other day I went for my routine visit to one of our Regeneration centres in the bush veld of the Limpopo Province. This is a new facility and had been open for less than four months. When I got there my colleague and friend, Tokkie van Wyk, who […]
JESUS MAKES A MOVE IN THE USA During the late sixties, a strange revolution was taking place among the youth in the USA. They completely broke loose out of the conservative mould of the fifties in terms of dress code, dialogue, societal behaviour, music and arts preference and way of thinking. They smoked pot, […]
ADDICTS BELIEVE THE LIES We know a lot about most of the criminal thinking errors so familiar to people addicted to street or illicit drugs. But how about the lies that people believe who have become legalized addicts. We have one lady in our fellowship who used to abuse illicit street drugs some 35 […]
THE POWER OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST Romans 6:11 says: “Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” “ If I dragged a dead corpse into my study and propped it up in a chair facing you, would you offer it […]
A HIGH RELAPSE RATE The relapse rate with hardcore drug addicts in South Africa, like the rest of the world where there is a serious drug problem, is alarmingly high. It is most probably higher than the relapse rate of long term prisoners. It is especially very high in secular treatment centers where programs […]
ALL ABOUT ME The human viewpoint is man-centred. It is all about man’s needs which happens to be the focus of most of the constitutions in the free democratic West. Most of it sounds good and right because it is the champion of human rights and is very agreeable to most people. It is […]
OUR PERSONAL GOD God gave us clear indication of how He brought this wonderful instrument of measure into our dimension. It was generated by His mind and communicated to us through the minds of chosen instruments via the agency of His Holy Spirit who is invisible yet present throughout creation very much like the […]
THE GOSPEL IS SIMPLE TO SIMPLE PEOPLE I recently met a man whose sole mission in life is to seek out untouched Indian tribes in the Amazon jungle and to bring them the view that God the Creator has of them. These are primitive people who have never been affected by our worldview since […]
WHOSE COMPASS? Whose compass should we use in giving people direction in the Counseling process? “In the family of man, man counsels man, in the family of God, God counsels man. The difference is fundamental and vast.” ~ How to Counsel God’s Way: Bob Hoekstra OUR MIND IS OUR MENTAL COMPASS The […]
WHAT IS HIGH-MINDED? High-mindedness is caused by the spirit of haughtiness (Proverbs 16:18). High-Minded is identified in Romans 11:20-21: “Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.” […]