JUST A MINUTE: REASON TO CELEBRATE
by Gustav Krös ‘Celebration’ is not a word that jumps to mind in the current global situation. Everyone has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and, in general, it has been a negative experience. Sickness, death, and financial insecurity are certainly not matters to be celebrated, and thus we find ourselves globally in an un-celebratory…
JUST A MINUTE: MEASURING SUCCESS IN 2021
by Gustav Krös It does not matter who you are, but I believe it is safe to say 2020 did not turn out the way you expected it would. All of us who had the privilege to live through 2020 encountered a year like no other before it. We all had to cancel meetings, travel…
JUST A MINUTE: MIRACLE IN THE HIMALAYAS
by Gustav Krös This past week, the question was asked at our weekly men’s group to share something miraculous that has happened in your life. My mind jumped to a few different occasions, but very quickly settled on my very first mission trip in 2007. It was mid-November, and we were a small group of…
JUST A MINUTE: THE LORD’S WILL FOR THE US ELECTIONS
by Gustav Krös The eyes of the world are currently focused on the United States of America, amid their 59th presidential election. The USA – with the world’s largest economy – has long been the global leader to which many other countries look for protection and financial assistance. The world knows that whatever happens in…
JUST A MINUTE: EMBRACING COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS
by Gustav Krös Living in South Africa, you know the next race-related news story is never far away. Our country is known the world over for our race relations. Firstly, for our apartheid government system that was in place from 1948 and phased out during the early 1990s, but also for the peaceful transition from…
JUST A MINUTE: A SEASON TO CELEBRATE
by Gustav Krös In South Africa – and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere – 1 September is known as the first day of Spring. All across the world, Spring is associated with new life and new beginnings. In nature, this is unmistakable as trees are sprouting new leaves and many are decorated with the…
JUST A MINUTE: GOD’S WILL FOR US vs OUR WILL FOR GOD
by Gustav Krös Sometime last year, I noticed for the first time how in the space of five verses Peter falls from being called ‘the rock’ on which the Lord will build His Church, to being called ‘Satan’ and ‘a stumbling block’. In Matthew 16:16 Peter declares for the first time that Jesus is the…
JUST A MINUTE: END-TIME PERSPECTIVE
The coronavirus pandemic has brought end-time prophecies to the forefront in many Christian discussions. People are trying to figure out where the coronavirus fits into end-time prophecies and whether perhaps we are close to the second coming of Jesus. People have so many different theories with regards to interpreting end time scriptures, that it has…
JUST A MINUTE: THE NEXT CRISIS
by Gustav Krös All around the world people are looking forward to ‘lockdowns’ being lifted so that they can return to their normal lives again. We are longing to go back to work, back to school or back to university. We want to visit our friends and family again, go to our favourite restaurant, watch…
JUST A MINUTE: CORONAVIRUS + ‘LOCKDOWN’ = SPIRITUAL GROWTH
By Gustav Krös I am a firm believer that as long as we live in this world one can never stop growing in your spiritual life. Even if you have enjoyed a personal relationship with Christ since early childhood and you grow spiritually for a hundred years, you would still not reach a point of…