We are trying to answer the question … “Why is leadership important?” So far we have worked through Genesis chapters 1-3 very briefly. Here we saw God appointing the man as the head over the wife and by implication, over the family. His duty is to be a blessing and how he leads carries responsibilities […]
You’ll recall I posed the question yesterday … “Why is leadership important?” For a little farm boy, having to go to school at 5 ½ I was extremely disappointed that I was now in a classroom filled with other children having to learn to count using blocks and read, using the John and Jill books […]
Why is leadership important? There are many who have suggested a variety of ideas as to why leadership is important in the market place. Here are three … (i) “As a catalyst, leaders perform four important functions … remove roadblocks that hinder the project results, develop connections across the organization, connect the employee’s vision to […]
I spent a large part of today with two elders from our Church at what is called “Calvary Presbytery”, an hour’s drive from where we live. This meeting is something like an area synod. Some 40 odd Churches are part of the Presbytery and there were just over 100 delegates and a handful of visitors. […]
Ill-informed religious people are hard to control. Once they became driven by their beliefs nothing can change them. John MacArthur relates a story in one of his books (Charismatic Chaos), describing how a certain tribe in Africa would dance and get themselves into such a trance that they would babble away in unintelligible tongues as […]
The religions of man can be complicated as well as interesting. In many there is a knowledge to and a need to placate their gods. They understand their behavior made their gods angry and by sacrificing an animal, shedding its blood they would be able to reduce the anger of their gods. The huge difference […]
All too often we find people venerating their leaders, be it political or spiritual leaders. Some of our older readers might remember a man called Jim Jones, founder of the Peoples Temple in the Unites States. His full name was James Warren Jones, an ordained preacher and political activist who became a mass murderer in […]
A skeptic is a person who doubts, mistrusts, is suspicious or uncertain about subject matter placed before them. They are either not sure or unwilling to believe without conclusive evidence. That is, they are not easily convinced! Regarding … “without conclusive evidence” we need to admit that unless the Holy Spirit works in your heart […]
No person becomes a Christian and knows everything they need to know immediately. Even if a person has been Churched for years and then becomes a Christian, they need to be discipled. Take for example doctrines like justification, election, predestination, sanctification or adoption … or what about assurance of salvation, fellowship, evangelism or service. These […]
A lady I met on the flight from Johannesburg, Gauteng, RSA to Atlanta, Georgia, USA when immigrating to the USA, and I have been emailing each other with small updates as to our families. She is a school teacher and during vacation times she travels to the Eastern Cape, RSA to do mission work in […]