by Joachim Rieck | 20 May 2017 | Articles
In my last two blog articles, I asked the question, “Where have all the pastors gone?” I have asked this question from a Namibian context and perspective. Moral failure, personal discouragement, financial problems and the like contribute to a number of pastors leaving...
by Joachim Rieck | 2 May 2017 | Articles
In my last post, I lamented the loss of pastoral integrity, as I observe it from the viewpoint of the Namibian church. In this brief blog, I want to focus on the other side of the coin—namely the contribution of church members to the attrition or loss of men from the...
by Joachim Rieck | 11 Apr 2017 | Articles
Seeing the people, he felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd. Matthew 9:36 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory...
by Doug Van Meter | 20 Feb 2017 | Articles
There is perhaps a fine line between pastoring and pestering. If so, I want to work hard on staying on the correct side of that line. But it is not always easy. One man’s concern is another man’s violation of their conscience. How does a pastor avoid being a bother,...
by Tim Cantrell | 1 Feb 2017 | Articles
I once visited a site of one of John’s seven churches in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey), but I never made it to Pergamum. Or so I thought—until I began studying this church in Revelation 2 and learning about that ancient city, and exploring why Jesus would call this...
by Doug Van Meter | 24 Jan 2017 | Articles
Australian theologian Peter Tong is concerned about bad theology being perpetuated via the Internet. He, along with many pastors—including this one—is concerned that an overreliance, and an overexposure to the internet, can be unhealthy. In the book Women, Sermons and...
