The Bible was written on three continents.
Asia.
Africa.
Europe.
In three languages.
Hebrew.
Aramaic.
Greek.
By over 40 different men:
Shepherds.
Kings.
Prophets.
Fishermen.
A tax collector.
A doctor.
A tentmaker.
Written in palaces and prisons.
In deserts and cities.
In freedom and in exile.
Across roughly 1,500 years.
66 books.
One continuous story:
Creation.
Fall.
Redemption.
Christ.
Most of these writers never met.
No committee planned it.
No editor stitched it together.
Yet it opens in a garden with the Tree of Life
and closes in a garden with the Tree of Life.
Different writers.
Different centuries.
Different cultures.
One voice.
Because behind the human hands was a divine Author.
Men held the pens.
But God wrote the story.
In a conversation with Ntsiki Mazwai, Prof Sipho Seepe argues that when Apartheid became unworkable, the ruling class looked for ways to contain the power of the Black majority.
According to Prof Seepe, because Black South Africans held the numbers to dominate a parliamentary democracy, White people pushed for a shift toward a constitutional democracy to oversee and restrict Black power.
Prof Seepe characterises the normalised warning against majoritarianism as a false narrative, and points out the irony that courts themselves operate on majority decisions rather than immediate, unanimous consensus.
To illustrate that judges are not neutral or infallible, he cites the Phala Phala case, noting it took 15 months to yield entirely different legal interpretations.
He also outlines how the decisions and leaders of the Black majority are constantly undermined and audited by external forces, specifically the mainstream media and academics and that post-1994 South Africa failed to thoroughly interrogate and reform core systems, namely the media, the judiciary, and universities, leaving the original structural architecture of control untouched.
City Ses’La, Ses’Top’La, My Perfect Family, Moferefere Lenyalong, Nomzamo, Thina naboMzala, Family Bonds, Ga Re Dumele, Stokvel, Thandeka’s Diary, man we were FEASTING 😔 what a time
One of the most common manipulation tactics women use on men is Monkey Branching. Most men don’t even know they’re being used until it’s too late. Monkey branching is when:
I've watched it a hundred times.
A family starts attending a missional/micro church and immediately loves it's simplicity, shared-life in community, and presence in the neighborhood. It feels like the Church they've always been looking for.
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A sex therapist says there are 7 bedroom habits that create sexual addiction between couples.
She says these habits can make couples go from platonic to passionate in under two weeks.
Here are the habits…
@DonaldMakhasane@MissTee_H2O The baby was not hidden. There’s a difference between a secret and privacy. They obviously did NOT want this to be known but you are THAT guy mos
I’m not saved by how obedient I am, I’m saved because of Christs perfectly obedience, and his sacrifice by his blood. He purchased me, I’m not buying my way to him. You will never be good enough it’s time you accept that.
@Anele Yebo, Anele this is a widely known thing 😂😂 for years I have omitted my Xhosa middle name and been using Archiebald Booysen, because when I wrote it in full I used to suffer. Xolani is my name.
@Gboye_Rave This is my theory. Almost all professionals work in toxic environments. But you have to build tolerance against the toxicity. It’s unfair on your loved ones that they have to add you on their already overloaded budget. You are basically saying; you tolerate so I won’t have to.