A short guide for new or young Christians to the basics of prayer.
Sometimes when you first start out as a leader it can be tempting to look at the people higher in leadership over you and think to yourself, “I can’t wait to be in that position. I’ll be able to do what I want and I’ll have lots more flexibility. The more authority and responsibility I have, the more freedom I’ll have to do what I want.” But that’s not how it works—and especially not in Christian leadership.
While I was reading 1 Corinthians earlier this year, and in particular the section on Christian freedom in chapters 8-10, I was struck by how these seemingly irrelevant chapters on food sacrificed to idols and Paul’s rights as an Apostle are actually vital for understanding Christian maturity. I noticed that,
You could change the world, just like Albert McMakin did when he asked a young man he knew to an evangelistic event.
Phillip Jensen explains why we need more extremists, not less.
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I’m reluctant to admit just how long it took before I was able to acknowledge that these “too basic to be helpful” lessons were making a noticeable difference in how I thought, acted and communicated in my friendships.
Back to Basics is a seven-part course for teaching and reminding Christians about basic biblical belief and behaviour, based on the Just for Starters studies.
Michael Hill provides an accessible, yet rigorously biblical approach to evangelical ethics.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been leading a small-group-with-a-difference at my local church. In fact we don’t call ourselves a ‘group’ at all, but a ‘team’—the ‘Newcomers Team’. Our disciple-making focus as a group is to chase up the newcomers who roll regularly through the door on Sunday