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In response to my recent post ‘False gospels and me’, Neil Foster asked this: I find a dilemma. As a Christian person whose full-time job is not preaching, I find myself (even outside work hours) often speaking about issues that are not a central part of the gospel. Same-sex marriage and
We often think of leadership in terms of the giftedness of a person, how competent and skilled they are in the things they do. It might be organizational management, preaching, vision setting or other skills. However, as much as leadership involves the competencies of a person, without people following it’s
We began with two goals. The first goal was to encourage churches to hold the line on biblical convictions, and to think through the shape of ministry that flows from those biblical convictions. The second goal was to produce resources that would help those churches to implement that type of ministry.
Would you like to be able to present a clear and memorable overview of the Bible to others?
FRONT: happy Xmas INSIDE: Have a happy Xmas! (remember what the X is for) And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:8 Pack of 10 cards with envelopes.
I suspect that we underestimate the burden of sin on our relationships with one another. Some aspects of this burden are obvious; when we are in seasons of strife with brothers and sisters in Christ, the weight of sin is undeniable. Bitterness between brothers drags us down in our fellowship
Since the beginning of the church there has been unhealthy tension between the shepherd and the sheep, the appointed leaders and those they lead.
“You can’t be a cross preacher and appear wise to the world.” This was the provocative line I jotted down about halfway through Phil Colgan’s address at the Nexus 2015 conference. I’m pretty sure, by the way, that ‘cross preacher’ was my abbreviation for ‘a preacher whose sermons are
Personal meditation on God’s word is commended in the Bible, but it talks far more frequently about speaking God’s word to each other than it does about studying God’s word alone.