16/03/2025
How tempting it is to beat yourself up as a writer. In the challenging and sometimes arduous task of creating a book, doubts can assail you: ‘Am I writing anything that people will want to read?’; ‘Will my readers be bored?’; ‘Will I ever even finish this chapter, let alone a whole novel?’ ‘And if […]
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12/03/2025
Who can begin to understand the depths of God’s grace? Reflecting on the meaning of the word itself – undeserved favour – makes His grace even more difficult to understand. I believe that it is easy to take God’s grace for granted unless we reflect on the enormity of our sins. Sin, of course, is […]
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09/03/2025
What inspiring stories there are in the Bible of men and women who trusted God so completely that they were prepared to give up everything: their homes, their families, their comforts and even their future prospects. Some of my favourite Old Testament stories of faith being demonstrated in action are those of Joseph, Ruth and […]
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05/03/2025
If, like me, you take great care in planning your weeks, months, and even the years ahead, you are sure to have experienced many disappointments. Life can send us so many curved balls—unexpected events, broken relationships, people letting us down, and our plans going awry. How often do our lives go exactly the way we […]
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25/08/2024
As a Christian who belongs to a Bible study group and many WhatsApp groups, I often hear about extraordinary miracles which happen to people close to me: people being healed from diseases by the power of prayer, others finding jobs after long, seemingly fruitless searches, people miraculously escaping from accidents. I love to read about […]
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11/08/2024
I often wonder how people who don’t believe in God can have hope in their lives. With this in mind, I did a Google search about atheists and have selected two quotes which highlight their bleak outlook on life: In case these quotes make you feel miserable, here are two biblical quotes to counter these […]
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21/07/2024
I am very fortunate to teach in a Christian school, attend a Bible-believing church, and know so many people with high moral standards. Because if I look around me, I see so much greed, corruption, selfishness and ‘I want it all now’ attitudes. As authors, we can counter these attitudes, spotlight moral behaviour, and teach […]
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07/07/2024
Story-telling is a powerful tool. Readers who are invested in stories walk with the characters through their trials, struggles, dramas, and triumphs. When I am writing a Christian story, either a short story, a young adult novel or an adult novel, I become so invested in my characters’ joys and sorrows that I’m not consciously […]
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23/06/2024
Because of my Christian faith, my motivation to write fiction that highlights different themes and ideas in the Bible has been strong. But although I have been writing for more than three decades, it was only in 2013, when I first came to Cape Town, that I seriously sat down to write stories that had […]
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