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Mobbing – what is it?

Mobbing – what is it?

Steve Vensel initiated a doctoral dissertation in the United States on "Mobbing in the Church and Missions" and is seeking ministers and mission personnel to respond to on-line research on it..

  • Undeserved

    What do you do when you’re given something you didn’t earn? 

  • The lessons of planning, trust and walking in God’s steps

    Sometimes in life it's not until you are looking back that you can see God is moving in your life. The start of 2020 was brimming with possibilities and a planned out approach to how it was going to unfold from my perspective.

  • Piercing through the fog

    Two events of the past year, namely the Covid-19 pandemic threat and the drama of the US Presidential election, have consumed our media feeds and our attention.

  • God’s hope in the COVID world

    According to Google, it is “a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen” and according to the Cambridge dictionary, it is “to want something to happen or to be true, and usually have a good reason to think that it might.”

  • Immigrant scenarios

    I read an interesting story about a Sudanese man who has applied unsuccessfully for more than 1000 jobs who then resorted to using a fake Anglo name on his resume in a desperate attempt to get work. As a result he received five call-backs for an interview.

  • Advice for travellers

    After six and a half months in Australia, once again separated from my wife due to the pandemic, I managed, on Christmas day, to return to South Africa…and I am stuck here again.

  • Made to See

    Rick Warren famously began his bestselling The Purpose Driven Life with, “It’s not about you”.

  • No Paine, No Gaine

    The recently concluded Test series between Australia and India was one for the ages. While calling it the greatest series of all time is a bit of a stretch.

  • Great change requires great leaders: why leaders need to 'budge'

    To budge is: \'to cause to move; to begin to move\'. If I don\'t budge in the morning, I don\'t get out of bed. If my children don\'t budge when they\'re getting ready for school, we end up late.

  • Have we put God in a box?

    Do you ever look at some toys and wonder how on earth it doesn't terrify a child? For me every time I have come across a jack-in-the-box, I wonder that exact question. If you haven't seen one, let me describe it to you, it's a box that you wind and then all of a sudden a clown pops out of it.

  • Civil behaviour

    Habakkuk 2:2: "And the Lord answered me and said 'Write the vision, and make it plain upon the tablets, that he may run that readeth it.'"