by Stuart | 6 Aug 2015 | Blog
Unless you have been living in a state of self-imposed isolation, you are no doubt aware of the big news: On 1 July, just outside Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, an American dentist killed a lion. Cecil, Hwange National Park’s most famous lion, was one of (initially)...
by Stuart | 23 Jul 2015 | Blog
Back in April this year, an Internet evangelist recorded a conversation with a Florida-based baker, in which he asked her to bake a cake displaying the words, “We do not support gay marriage.” The baker refused to do so and quickly hung up. The evangelist then posted...
by Stuart | 20 Apr 2015 | Blog
For the past few years, South Africa has been in the grip of periodic load shedding. The national power grid, for various reasons, has come under severe pressure, and in order to curtail the possibility of a catastrophic national blackout, Eskom, the country’s...
by Stuart | 12 Mar 2015 | Blog
Do you despise God? I imagine that most people confronted with this question would answer negatively. Relatively few would be so bold as to admit that they despise God. They may not believe in God. They may not fully submit to God. They may not think much about God....
by Stuart | 27 Feb 2015 | Blog
In preparation for a particular study I was doing recently, I found myself reading John Calvin on 2 Peter 2. In that chapter, the apostle writes of the character of false teachers, and pulls few punches in doing so. In v. 10, he writes of the fact that the false...
by Stuart | 25 Feb 2015 | Blog
There is a song that I learned in Sunday school, which I still occasionally sing to myself and which expresses a great truth. The song is called “Obedience,” and its lyrics go, in part: Obedience is the very best way to show that you believe: Doing exactly what the...
