The Heresy of Boring Preaching

The Heresy of Boring Preaching J Pickering Which is worse? To be a boring preacher or a heretical one? Good-hearted graduates of our college will answer ‘a heretical one’, and they would be correct. What they will almost certainly be wrong about is how close-run a...

Movie Review – “Son of Man” in Africa

Reviewed by Jonathan More In a third-year course entitled “Jesus and the Gospels” we investigate how the four Gospels combine to give us an account of Jesus’ life and his ministry. We also pay attention to how others have engaged in this task of...

A tribute to Rev. Jeremiah Zondi, past student of GWC

Jeremiah Zondi studied at Trinity Academy in Pietermaritzburg before coming to GWC in 1994. He only had a year to become a GWC man, but that he did. I remember him as an enthusiastic hard-working disciple of Jesus, eager to serve his Lord “feeding his sheep”. That too...

Welcome to Upsy Down Town by Stephen Rockwell

My kids like to sing a song about a fictional world where everything is upside down.  It’s called Upsy Down Town – you may know the song. If not, then here are the words: In Upsy Down town, The sky is in the sea, The sea is where the sky should be. The rain is falling...

Reflections on Mission

In my view, the heart of Christian mission is evangelism, “Go and Tell” (Mark 5:19). To be sent as a missionary is to be sent to preach.  As the Apostle Paul writes (Romans 10:12-15): “For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile–the same Lord is Lord of...