Looking back on my life, I realize now that I grew up in South Africa in the environment of an on-going revival. The revival had begun in my father's heart, and then in the church he was pastoring at the…
I know it’s a simple thing but, growing up in South Africa, one of my chores when I got home from school each day was to prepare the vegetables my Mom was going to cook for dinner that night. If…
I was a young man back in the '60's. My father pastored a church in South Africa that, at the time, was associated with the holiness movement. The holiness movement began in the late 1800's, influenced by the renewal of…
When I was growing up in South Africa in the 1960’s most worship service planners called everything before the sermon, “preliminaries.” That word conveyed what everyone was thinking in those days... that the main attraction in the worship service was…
Generationally, I sit in a curious place. I look back to my father’s generation and remember how they wrestled with matters of holiness. They took the subject seriously and for the most part wanted to please the Lord, but often…