by Doug Van Meter | 13 Jun 2025 | Articles
One heartbreaking reality of local church life is the presence of temporary faith—an empty profession of faith that has no real grasp of Jesus Christ crucified. A crossless faith will always prove to be a useless faith, regardless of how long it is professed. It is...
by Doug Van Meter | 5 Jun 2025 | Articles
When Paul reflected on his ministry, he made a statement deeply counterintuitive to a culture—even, at times, an evangelical culture—obsessed with power: “If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness” (2 Corinthians 11:30). In the...
by Doug Van Meter | 24 Apr 2025 | Articles
If you had to pick any church named in the New Testament and label it as a refreshing church, which would it be? Perhaps the church in Smyrna or Philadelphia? What about Philippi? Antioch? Any number of churches might come to mind, but would Corinth be among those?...
by Doug Van Meter | 3 Aug 2022 | Articles
South Africa’s loss is England’s gain. So we would all concur as we say goodbye to our brother and fellow pastor, Peter Sammons. Peter, having accepted the call to Artillery Street Evangelical Church in Colchester, England, leaves our land and does so bequeathing a...
by Doug Van Meter | 29 May 2021 | Brackenhurst Baptist Church (Alberton, South Africa), Churches, Newsletters
Dear brothers and sisters of Sola 5, The past year has been a difficult one for churches across the globe. Brackenhurst Baptist Church (BBC) is no exception. While we are thankful to God for his kindness in many ways, there is much hard work to do in the wake of...
by Doug Van Meter | 17 Feb 2020 | Brackenhurst Baptist Church (Alberton, South Africa), Churches, Newsletters
I was recently assigned the responsibility of delivering the pastors’ report at Brackenhurst Baptist Church’s (BBC) 41st annual general meeting, held on Wednesday, 12 February 2020. The goal of a pastors’ report is to assess the health of the church, which, at one...
