It is not so much what credentials a pastor teacher has … it is more the credentials required by the Church or the Denomination. When I was training for the ministry, some students from other denominations required a specific degree obtained at UNISA (The University of South Africa). This was an off campus university / […]
One cannot escape the weeds growing with the wheat. Although Jesus used this analogy, we see it all over, everywhere in the world. Where we live we are coming out of winter. The grass’s growth stagnates during winter … yet the weeds grow. There are weeds and grass. Failure to remove these weeds before the […]
Over the years I have been condemned because I cannot accept that all Churches within the many Christian Denominations are Christian Churches. Equally I have been called judgmental because I do not believe all clergy to be Christian. Surely the Christian Faith is based upon believing the Bible to be God’s inspired, inerrant, infallible and […]
When running the grueling Comrades Marathon and you are about 5 kilometers away from entering the stadium, crowds line the sidewalks urging runners on. One of their favorite shout outs is … “You can do it! You’re almost there!” The race is long … roughly 90 kilometers long … but that’s not the problem. The […]
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 […]