01Sep
As a church, VOX is striving to become a community that takes seriously God’s call for his people to care for the poor. One way we are trying to live this out is in developing a partnership with Trinity Church in Mitchell’s Plain. Trinity is living out the gospel in one of Cape Town’s many [...]
31Aug
In the previous post, we looked at the why of celebration, and noted that we have a double reason to celebrate – God’s creation and redemption. God has both created and redeemed us. Now, we’ll consider the how of celebration. What should make the way Christians celebrate distinctive? The basic answer is that our celebrations [...]
11Aug
Celebration is embedded within the fabric of creation. That sounds like a pretty far-fetched statement, that celebration is embedded within the created order. But biblically, it’s true. Consider Leviticus 23, a chapter that deals with the festal calendar of Israel. The three pilgrim festivals (The Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Harvest and the [...]
26Jul
Over the last couple weeks, we have considered how the Bible radically re-engineers how we think of money and sex. We’ve also considered how the Scriptures do not merely give us a new conception of these, but a new motivation for dealing with them. Our motivation comes from looking both backwards into history and forwards [...]