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KNOWING JESUS: THE I AM STATEMENTS
For the next few days, visit for a daily (Monday to Friday) devotion focused on the I AM statements in the Gospel of John.
Blog
Threatened by Tribalism
On Maundy Thursday in 1994, Rwandan Christians gathered in church buildings to worship God. Together, they sang songs of praise, prayed as one,...
Olympic outrage
This past Friday night, the world witnessed another elaborate opening ceremony of a major sporting event. Third-time Olympic host city, Paris, went...
More precious than gold
The 2024 Olympic Games will be held from 24 July to 11 August in Paris, France. Paris’s third turn hosting the Games marks a few significant...
Reviews
Review: End the Stalemate
It is no exaggeration to say that we live in an age of outrage and a culture of cancel, which does not facilitate meaningful, charitable discussion....
Review: Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire
Anyone who has engaged with Preston Sprinkle for any meaningful amount of time will be familiar with his language of exile. He frequently speaks of...
Review: The Wood Between the Worlds
In The Magician’s Nephew, the Wood Between the Worlds was a mysterious inter-dimensional realm from which people could magically travel from one...
Hymn stories
Hymnody: “‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus”
Louisa Stead was born in Dover, England around 1850. From a young age, she felt compelled to mission work. She desperately wanted to serve as a...
Hymnody: “Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken”
Henry Francis Lyte was born into severe poverty in Scotland on 1 June 1793. While still very young, he became an orphan. Despite, these challenges,...
Hymnody: “More Love to Thee”
Elizabeth Prentiss was a nineteenth-century American author, perhaps best known for the most famed of her novels, Stepping Heavenward. A pastor’s...
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CHURCH AFFILIATION
I am a member Brackenhurst Baptist Church (BBC) in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Founded in 1972, BBC exists to glorify God by making disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ in all nations, and seeks to meet people’s spiritual needs through the preaching and teaching of God’s word.
Independent of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa, BBC is a member of Sola 5, an association of God-centred evangelical churches in Southern Africa, and a part of the international Pillar Network of churches.
About Me
I am a Christian, husband, father, church member, and elder from Johannesburg, SOuth Africa.
As a Christian, I adhere to the classic creeds of historic Christianity: the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. As a Protestant, I hold to the five solas of the Reformation. As a Calvinist, I affirm the doctrines of grace. As a Baptist, I adhere largely, though not minutely, to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. As an evangelical, I affirm the National Association of Evangelicals Statement of Faith.
