Dear Northside This week I want to talk about Faithfulness. Faithfulness is not flashy, but it is powerful. In a world that often celebrates talent, platform, position, speed, and image, faithfulness can seem ordinary. But heaven notices faithfulness. Families are strengthened by faithfulness. Ministries are built through faithfulness. Legacies are carried by people who
Dear Northside Thanks to AI, you can find the answer to almost any question in about 3 seconds. So, if that’s true, then why are so many of the big decisions in your life still so hard? Access to more information was supposed to make us wiser. But for a lot of us, AI has
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Dear Northside This world seems backward. Why do so many people who blaspheme God prosper financially? And why do so many Christians struggle to make ends meet? The prosperity gospel has tried to fill the gap, but it falls short. You can’t name what you want and then claim that God owes it to you.
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Dear Northside In an ever-changing, always-moving, constantly-shifting world, we can count on the unchanging nature of God. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, the author of Hebrews said it like this: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8 A title for the three distinct parts, or “Persons”, of God is the Trinity:
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Dear Northside We are nearly at the end of August. It does seem to me that this was a busy month, but maybe my 2-weeks away playing hockey contributed to that. By all accounts, the Project127 camp was a success. We had close to 190 orphans at the camp. They used the Children with Hope
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Dear Northside August is always a busy month for us as a church. Already we have held our annual Harvest service, Bring it on auditions, workshops and rehearsals are already underway. Our Project127 team have been up to Ruwangwe, Nyanga North and returned after ministering to nearly 200 orphans. A small team represented us at
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Dear Northside What are you waiting for right now? Maybe it’s clarity about a decision. A relationship to change. A door to open. A difficult season to end. For many of us, life feels like a series of waiting rooms… and we don’t tend to sit in them very well. We live in a culture
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Dear Northside “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings.” (Malachi 3:8) God doesn’t need your money. Let that sink in for a moment. The Creator of the universe, who owns the cattle on a thousand hills, doesn’t need your tithe
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Dear Northside Overshadowing everything that has and is going on in our nation is the return of tens of thousands of Zimbabweans who have been living in South Africa. Many are returning “home” with nothing. As a church in the northern suburbs, it is easy for us to simply ignore what is happening a few
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Dear Northside I have a sense that people are feeling a bit hopeless and discouraged at the moment. All that is happening here politically and economically is tiring. And now we have the return of thousands of Zimbabweans from South Africa. Where do they go to, where do they live, what do they do, can