2021-09-24Reverend Jan Scholtz It is difficult to come up with a definition of pornography; however, the term is defined as the “explicit description or exhibition of sexual activities in literature, photograph, films and so forth, which are intended to stimulate erotic sexual feelings rather than aesthetic feelings”. View more
2021-10-01Reverend Jan Scholtz I classify a moment of silence like a heavy nimbostratus cloud overhanging a specific geographical location – and as dark as it is, bringing joy to farmers while posting a threat and great fear to “masses, such as me, who are homeless in the loss of Dr Julius”. View more
2021-10-08Reverend Jan Scholtz The effectiveness of traditional Sunday school methods of evangelism, and the place of children in the church’s life have been in the spotlight for some time. View more
2021-10-15Reverend Jan Scholtz Saul’s experience on the road to Damascus can be mistaken for the classic story of repentance: the sinner who senses guilt opens himself to Jesus’s saving grace. But by his own light, and those of his community, Saul, the Jew from Tarsus, was doing no wrong in trying to suppress a descending movement within Judaism. It took Jesus to show him the error of his ways. View more
2021-10-22Reverend Jan Scholtz Christian education is the people of God acting to reach out with the Gospel (i.e. “disciple all nations” Matthews 25:18-20) and to nurture one another by the power of the Spirit through Word and Sacrament (Col 3:16). View more
2021-10-29Reverend Jan Scholtz This is the first instalment of a series of articles on the major tools of leadership. This week’s article focuses on hard work. Leadership is a calling – the action of ensuring that a group of like-minded people achieve a set goal. View more
2021-11-12Reverend Jan Scholtz As we continue to look at Vision 2030 together, I want us to look at how we can address some of the divisions that baffle us at times. View more
2021-11-19Reverend Jan Scholtz Teleology is the study, science, doctrine of ends or final causes, especially related to purpose in natural phenomena or evidence of design. View more
2021-11-26Reverend Jan Scholtz This is the second instalment on a series of articles on ‘The Major Tools of Leadership’. This week’s article focuses on “leaders encouraging others”. View more
2021-12-03Reverend Jan Scholtz With the demise of apartheid, the Namibian churches are realising that there are other issues confronting society. These other issues have been neglected. View more
2021-12-09Reverend Jan Scholtz The financial gurus say you need to have a “retirement car”. Well, my retirement car will just have the basics – automatic, rear assist parking, lights that come on when it’s dark – and most importantly, an engine that can handle the air conditioner. View more
2021-12-16Reverend Jan Scholtz While I sat in my study this morning, I was enjoying the lovely cool breeze for which the ocean is noted and the peaceful environment where I am fortune to live, except for the occasional passing of a car to and from town. View more
2022-01-21Reverend Jan Scholtz A philosopher friend remarked recently: “God must really love unhappy people, otherwise He wouldn’t have made so many of them”. View more
2022-01-28Reverend Jan Scholtz In the physical world, boundaries are easy to see. Fences, signs, walls, moats with alligators and hedges are all physical boundaries. View more
2022-02-04Reverend Jan Scholtz Are you one who feels that the rolling cadences of Elizabeth English which we find in the authorised version are sacrosanct, or do you prefer the down to earth quality of the more modern translations? Are you like the little old lady who said: “If it was good enough for St. Paul then it is good enough for me!” View more
2022-02-11Reverend Jan Scholtz A friend writes in a book that his experience of the work of ministers can be best described as “hatching” (baptisms), “matching” (weddings), and “dispatching” (burials). View more
2022-02-18Reverend Jan Scholtz My cousin’s memorial service in December brought me back to my childhood church in Lüderitz, the church he had joined in 1978. View more
2022-03-04Reverend Jan Scholtz I woke this morning thinking: It would be nice to wake up and have someone bringing me coffee in bed and magically have a big-screen TV in my bedroom and already on my favourite channel – which by the way is HGTV or SS2. View more
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