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
Are you gearing up for Christmas at your church? Of course, you know you’re going to get lots of visitors—people who don’t normally come to church at all. Whether they come to a carol service or Christmas Day services, or some other Christmas outreach event, you expect to see
Colin Marshall discusses the why and how of growing your church.
The great travesty of the prosperity gospel is that, if we embrace it, it can lead us to believe we’re being faithful to God when we aren’t.
Dr Kirsten Birkett analyzes the feminist movement and feminist ideology from a Christian perspective.
Share your anti-porn posts and petitions with me, but stop attaching the pictures!
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching themto observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. (Matt 28:19-20) Are we in danger of trying to squeeze too much
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.
You Alone features a collection of the most popular songs from Plainsong, Bethlehem and Nicky Chiswell (now all under the 'Emu' label), plus original songs written especially for this album. Recorded with a live congregation, each song is presented in a fresh and energetic style. The songs include: Behold the Lamb of God, Consider Christ, Psalm 96, May the Mind of Christ, My Hope is Built on Nothing Less.
This fabulously illustrated retelling of the Christmas story is a book that both adults and children will love. (Published by our friends at the Good Book Company.)