David Cook was recently asked, "Do you have any deep convictions about developing the future leaders of the church?" You would think that David Cook has a view ideas about this question. He is the Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the former principal of Sydney Missionary and Bible College, where ...
Peter van der Schoor and I, Jack De Vries, have just returned from a week in Solomon Islands. We met with the leaders of the local churches including the Archbishop of Honiara Adrian Smith (pictured here with Peter van der Schoor and Eric Maefonea). The clear message from the partner churches and agencies in Solomon Isla...
I sat down with a senior manager of an international company and I asked him, “What insight have you gained about management in the past year?” He thought it was an interesting question, but that was why I asked it. He then shared with me the insight he had gained. This was the insight: you need to set high goals for the peo...
A Christian disciple is someone who follows Jesus Christ. As they follow Jesus they learn from him and take on his way of life. When we talk about discipleship, we refer to the ongoing call to growth which is laid before all followers of Jesus (Eph 4:15; Col 1:28; 2 Thess 1:3). This growth is really the outward expression of...
My father-in-law was an avid gardener! Not only did he cultivate acres of vegetables and greenhouses full of tomatoes and cucumbers, he had a knack and reputation for growing healthy young starter plants from seeds. I knew this firsthand. See, as a teenager, before I was married, I spent many ...
PrayerPoints2015.pdf LettertoSessions2015.pdf
As churches we have committed ourselves to pray for the lost. This is our first task: "To call upon God for such an outpouring of his Spirit that his people will be assured of his love through his Word, seek to please the Saviour in all things, manifest the godly life and be filled with prayerful and sacrificial compassion for the lost in all the world."
The power of the gospel! This is what the apostle Paul reminded the church in Colossae. He wrote to them: "All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth." (Colossians 1:6) Bearing fruit and growing! As churches of the CRCA we be...
