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This week we spoke to the very wise Pastor Alexander Venter on human sexuality and zoned in on homosexuality. A hot, and somewhat controversial, topic in today's culture and one that brings Christianity and believers under the spotlight - even going so far as to divide the church on what the Bible says about this topic and how it should be dealt with.
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We discuss all things iLobolo with Pastor Sihle Dlamini. We will look at the distortions around this topic and how to navigate it in a God-honouring, marriage-honouring way.
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This week we chat with the inspiring Jennie Tsekwa of the Kopanya Institute. Come join us as we discuss how to process healing from church hurt, particularly in multicultural churches where hurting one another as we heal from racial segregation seems inevitable. This is one of our best conversations yet:
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This week we dive deeper into some of the nuances around culture with our incredible guest Greg Tait asking where do we draw the line between cultural triumphalism and Cultural withdrawal? In other words, should Christians dominate culture and leave no room for anything else or should we completely withdraw?
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We continue the conversation with Pastor Sihle Dlamini digging deep into whether Christ and culture can peacefully coexist in the life of a believer. Catch Part 2 of the conversation here: Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/context-with-themba/id1628475612 Spotify https://spoti.fi/3Fwvln5Anchor FM https://bit.ly/3AVEe6OGoogle https://bit.ly/3DlgWbe Or click here to watch it on Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UC9DMH_RZzPdzI0hDVd_QlwA
Part 1 link https://youtu.be/H_fGwlATZi0
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This week we chatted to the inspiring Pastor Sihle Dlamini digging deep into whether Christ and culture can peacefully coexist in the life of a believer.
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Join us for part 2 of our culture series where we had an enlightening conversation with Pastor Ryan Saville from GodFirst Fourways on what is Kingdom Culture? Is it the same as multiculturalism? And if there is a difference, what is it?
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This week we launch our new series on Culture. In today's episode, we discuss whether culture is something created by God or a consequence of geography and race? Is culture inherently good and God-glorifying or is it inherently evil and something we lay aside as believers in Christ?
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We continue with episode 2 of our series Affirmed – we were in beautiful Franshoek, Cape Town talking to a panel that consisted of pastors, a psychologist, and a doctor to help shine the biblical spotlight on suicide and mental health. We hope you are blessed and empowered by this weeks’ discussion.
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Hi Context Family! This week we continue our conversation with Ted Talk speaker Thobile Chittenden. We were intrigued by Thobile's assertion that we can when trying to do good to others, there is a danger that we can do it in such a way that it ironically ends up harming the very people we are trying to help. Interested to hear more? Let us know your thoughts!
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We continue with our theme of loving our neighbour as ourselves in the South African polarized racial and socio-economic environment. In our podcast this week, we chatted with Thobile Chittenden. Thobile is a driven change agent passionate about lifting the poor from the clutches of poverty – she got this drive because her life is one of a white family linking arms with hers to help lift her and her family out of poverty through adoption. Our discussion with Thobile was profound – we were caught up in her story of adoption in post-apartheid South Africa and how this has impacted her life.
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#Racism #theology #truth #gospel #southafrica #christianity #janviljoen Are you a good South African? Do you love your neighbour? Tensions ran high in our country this week in response to the racial incidents that occurred at #JanViljoen High School. We continue our discussion this week on Empathy, taking a biblical perspective on racism in South Africa as we focus the limelight on Jan Viljoen High School. It’s a sad week for our country and lamentable that our nation's children are being brought to hate.
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Jesus teaches us to LOVE God with all our hearts and to LOVE our neighbours as ourselves. Easier said than done, right? This week on Context we discuss what this means and how we can put it into action: *hint* it begins with EMPATHY
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How are those New Year’s resolutions going? If you have found yourself asking if it is still too early to quit or too late to commit to new ones, come join us as we discuss how to have a productive year and achieve your 2022 goals in a way that glorifies God. There are only a couple of steps to follow and it's completely guilt-free and EASY
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This week in our final episode of the Inequalooty series, we delve deep into the parable of the 10 talents found in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. This is our most challenging episode of the series as it tested our conventional thinking on what this parable actually means (Thanks to our discussion with Rene!) and we realised that we may have got it wrong! Wow! What a week it's been trying navigate through this parable. We are keen to share what we found and keen to hear your thoughts! Could it be that the Master referred to the parable is not God nor is it reflective of the Kingdom of Heaven?
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Inequalooty Episode 7: Did God really create inequality
Following on from our thought-provoking discussion last week on law and justice, we continue our conversation with Rene and Thandi in an episode titled “God created inequality?” Did He really? Join us as we tackle these questions and more:
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This week we were in scenic Cape Town and had a fascinating conversation with Poet Thandi Gamedze and Reverend René August.
The discussion centers around Thandi’s thought-provoking poem “Let Justice Roll” based on the book of Amos, where we explored the following questions:
You DO NOT want to miss episode 6 of our Inequalooty series:
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COVID-19: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate. Few topics threaten to tear the body of Christ apart more than this. To add fuel to fire, over time there has been all manner of theories that have proven to be less anchored in facts and unfortunately sometimes more convincing to those who have a challenging time trusting modern medicine. With opinions see-sawing between the loudest extremes, people with honest questions often feel, judged, dismissed, misunderstood, or even ridiculed. To help us answer the question of whether believers should vaccinate or not we speak to GodFirst lead pastor Greg Tait and Dr. Spencer, an expert on communicable diseases, currently the editor of the Southern African HIV Journal of Medicine and former Head of Infectious Diseases at Helen Joseph Hospital.
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Is there such a thing as Western theology, and if there is, does it romanticize and spiritualize poverty, especially in the African context? This week we continue our discussion with John Scheepers, diving deep into the questions above.
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In our podcast this week, we chatted to John Scheepers, founder of Isiphambano Centre for Biblical Justice, where we tackled the question of why the church has struggled to submit to the call for Biblical Justice. John dismantles the false choice between Jesus and justice providing context into why historically the SA church had a vested interest in stripping the Gospel of its justice elements. This is broadly addressed by answering two questions:
