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ADVENTURES in HOME EDUCATION

A True School of Discipleship

Parenthood is an adventure. Protestant Reformer, Dr. Martin Luther observed that marriage is the true school of discipleship. He claimed that he learned more in one year of marriage than he had learned in 10 years in the monastery! Luther also observed that there is no love so sacrificial as that of a parent.

Three Decades in Education
For my wife, Lenora, and I, our adventures in Home Education began 30 years ago with the birth of our first child. Now that we have four children and three grandchildren, we can look back on almost three decades of family adventures in education with awe and gratitude at all that the Lord has taught us and accomplished, in spite of our doubts, fears, frailties and failures.

UNIVERSITIES, POLYVERSITIES, DIVERSITIES and AVERSITIES

The Nature of Truth
The very name university testifies to its Christian origins. University comes from Uni Veritas – One Truth. Yet, most professors today do not even believe that there is an objective truth that can be known. Secular humanists can open up a polyversity, a diversity, or an aversity, but universities should, by their very name and origin, be Christian.

Ancient Greeks and Romans did Not Have Universities
The Ancient Greeks had their philosophers – Thales, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Xeno, Pythagoras, Democritus, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. They also had their poets – Euripides, Aristophanes and Sophocles. The Romans had some gifted thinkers, such as Seneca, Cicero, Pliny, Lucretius and Tacitus. These were gifted men, but they developed no permanent institutions with libraries. There was no guild of scholars for students and they certified no one. They tested no theories and engaged in no research. They ignored and spurned the inductive method. It is incorrect to assume, as many have done, that universities of the 21^st century are direct descendants of Ancient Greek philosophers.

VOTER’S GUIDE

For thirty years Africa Christian Action has been surveying political parties on where they stand on various issues and producing summaries of these in the Biblical Issues Voters Guide.

New Surveys on Lockdowns, Masks, Vaccinations and Self-Determination
This year, as South Africans approach the Municipal elections on 1 November 2021, we have updated the www.savotersguide.org website to include a Survey on Where do Parties Stand on – Lockdowns, Mask Mandates and Vaccination Passports; and a link to the Cape Independence Advocacy Group Voters Guide for the Cape, showing where different parties stand on self-determination, referendums and which parties support a free and independent Cape of Good Hope.

THIRTY YEARS OF STANDING FOR LIFE AND LIBERTY

“Does not wisdom cry out and understanding lift up her voice?” She takes a stand on the top of the high hill, beside the way, where the paths meet. She cries out by the gates, at the entrance of the city, at the entrance of the doors.”

Proverbs 8:1-3

For over thirty years Africa Christian Action has been standing for Faith and freedom, campaigning for Life and Liberty throughout South Africa. This last Sunday we experienced serious police harassment at our Life Chain.

Creative Banners, Posters and Placards

Much work, creativity, prayer and planning go into organising these outreaches at one of the busiest traffic intersections in Cape Town. Banners, posters and placards are designed: abortion kills babies. Abortion is the ultimate child abuse. A person is a person, no matter how small. Abortion is not a human right; it is human sacrifice. Abortion is our national sin. God will not bless a country that kills its own babies. Compassion is always an option. Take my hand, not my life. Abortion is murder. Life begins at conception. “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.” Proverbs 31:8. “Now Choose Life so that you and your children may live.” Deuteronomy 30:19. Abortion does not make you unpregnant. It makes you the mother of a dead baby. Adoption – loving option. Choose life! Babies are a blessing. In God’s court, abortion is murder. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Well-designed posters, banners and placards communicating these and other messages were prepared. 10,000 leaflets were printed. Volunteers were mobilised to confront Capetonians with these facts.