Posts from 2012 (Page 21)
What is the Number One Failure of 90% of Pastors?
Joe McKeever, Preacher, Cartoonist, Pastor, and retired Director of Missions at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans has written about this question here.
How Do We Disciple Former Drug Addicts?
By Andy Constable We live in a community that has been heavily damaged by drugs. Most of the people that we work with have a steady diet of prescribed as well as street (unprescribed) drugs running through their system everyday. We have seen a handful of addicts over the last few years saved by the gospel and wonderfully changed by God. Is there anything that we need to…
How Do We Reach People On Housing Schemes With The Gospel?
I often get asked how and why we have so many contacts and have so many unchurched people attending our services throughout the week. The answer is quite simple: 1. We pray for people. Are you really praying for people in your area, consistently, specifically an intelligently. when I first came to…
Homosexuality, Christianity & The Gospel
JD Greear has written a four part article here on this controversial issue. Worth a read.
Amazing Manuscript Discoveries!
There is an exciting article on the discovery of some fragments of Mark’s gospel, thought to be from the First Century. If verified, it could make them some of the oldest gospel manuscripts in existence. See here for a short post on this find (scroll down to 10th February 2010). New Testment Scholar, Daniel Wallace, gave an interview on the discovery of these…
The Christian & The War On Drugs (2)
Is the idea of treating addiction as a disease preventing addicts from overcoming their problems? Daily Telegraph writer and recovering alcoholic Damian Thompson, who has written a new book on the subject, explains that what worries him is the way addicted behaviour is “spreading around society”. “There is an acceleration of addictiveness”, he told…
What’s Wrong With Some Evangelical Churches?
A thoughtful post here from Kevin DeYoung on this question.
Why Our Bible Studies Are Killing People & Not Helping Them!
“When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. Master it.” — John Piper Bible study is an important topic for all of us trying to help people grow in the knowledge of God and for pointing unbelievers to Jesus Christ.…
5 Ways to make Your Preaching Better!
So, my Pastoral Assistant stiffed me and I haven’t had the time to prepare a full post today. On the plus side, you get to enjoy this great post from the ‘Ordinary Pastor’ here on this fascinating topic!
Four Reminders For Church Planters & Pastors
A good little post here from my pals at the Sojourn Network.