by Tim Cantrell | 6 Jun 2025 | Articles
Cultures vary greatly in the food, music, and fashion they enjoy. But the love of titles seems universal. South Africa is a beautiful Rainbow Nation of cultural diversity; yet our religious landscape is littered with ministerial titles, with pastors and bishops dying...
by Clint Archer | 8 Aug 2017 | Articles
George Orwell’s seminal political satire, Nineteen Eighty-Four, portrays a nightmarish world that is inescapably under the oppressive control of a totalitarian government. Every minute aspect of this dystopian society is monitored and governed by the unopposed rule of...
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 | 5 Feb 2015 | Articles
Recently, someone who is studying the biblical teaching concerning eldership asked each of the elders of BBC to contribute a statement explaining why we desire to be elders and what we believe our responsibility is as elders. The two issues are, of course, intimately...
