Perhaps no event in history so affected the people of its own time more than the resurrection of Jesus. It became the theme that attracted thousands to the cause of Christ, and the cornerstone around which the early Church was built.

After three and a half years of preaching – Jesus Christ, a perfect Man who spoke like no other (John 7:46), and who attested His words with all forms of miracles – only some 500 people became adherents of His beliefs. Within a very short time after Pentecost, the apostles, “unlearned and ignorant men” (Acts 4:13), added thousands to the fold. The significant difference was the fact of the resurrection from the dead. The Jews could not deny it. They had taken every precaution to make sure the body could not be stolen from the grave. Yet, despite the seal of Pilate and the elite guard of the Sanhedrin, the grave was empty…

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You never know what is waiting for you just around the corner. If someone told Christel van Zyl of Upington that she would suddenly become paralysed, she would not have believed them. Christel describes herself as someone who loves to be outdoors and who definitely cannot sit still. Little did she know that the events of 11 September 2022 would take her on a journey of unanswered questions.

“My flatmate and I were not planning to attend the church service, but after a friend’s invitation we decided to go,” Christel says, recalling what happened that night. As a second-year student at the North-West University, she was busy with her degree in biokinetics. A funny feeling came over her during the first worship song, but she thought it might be because the music “touched” her…

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Teaching the Bible has been part of the Christian Church for centuries. Jesus instructed His followers to make disciples, teaching them to observe all He commanded them (Matt 28:19). Catechesis is the activity of teaching and making disciples.

Catechesis is the activity of teaching and making disciples. It happens when the catechist (teacher) catechises (teaches) the catechumen (students) using a catechism (textbook)…

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God’s creation never ceases to amaze us, and jellyfish truly are an enigma. They have no heart, bones, eyes, or even a brain – and yet are very efficient predators. This seemingly innocuous gelatinous blob is able to stun and kill its prey with stinging cells that each contain a tiny harpoon which, when triggered by touch or movement, shoots into the prey and delivers the toxin.

Each of the jellyfish’s special features – from the sacs that keep it swimming upright, to the sensory organs that alert it to passing prey and the nematocysts, critical for stunning or killing that prey – is vital for its survival. So, logically, any phase that did not have these features fully developed would have led to extinction fairly quickly. The only alternative, then, is that jellyfish have always been jellyfish. Created so by God from the beginning…

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