Posts by Jason Nelson (Page 26)
8 Way To Pray During sermon Preparation
Michael McKinley has written a helpful little article on the 9Marks site. Read it here.
8 Ways to Protect Your Children From Sexual Abuse
This is a very timely article from The Resurgence site on this highly emotive issue. Read it here.
Learning From One Man’s Mistakes In Over 40 years of Ministry!
You’ve got to take up your cross and follow Jesus. So this is no career move for the faint-hearted. This is no career move for someone who wants an easy life or a nice life. You’re not going to be accepted, and you’re not going to be liked: you are following the crucified one. Wise words from the…
The Trinity Made Easy (or at least easier!)
We have been studying the Trinity this week at our leadership training and it is such a difficult doctrine to get “right.” It is so easy to get it wrong though with well intentioned “illustrations”. I came across this recently and found it to be extremely helpful. Just click on it to enlarge. See what you think. For Some other crackers visit…
Finding Encouragement In Church Planting Failures!!
Today, I would like to introduce you to Andrew Scott, a church planter I recently contacted online and have met through our Porterbrook Scotland training scheme in the city. From time to time I like to interview church planters to see where we can learn and how we can be a help and encouragement to…
Could This Be The Best Conference For Church Planters in the World?
OK. So, I maybe exaggerated a little bit, but I bet you it is still going to be a great conference! In a recent British poll of people claiming to be ‘Christian’, less than half believed that Jesus rose from the dead. One study suggested that Christianity will be statistically irrelevant in…
How to listen to a sermon?
A really helpful article here from the always solid reformation21 boys. A must read here.
How much do we really love Jesus?
This is a fantastic article written by the Puritan Thomas Doolittle in the late 1600’s. Entitled, “Motives to Love Jesus” you should take the time to read it all here.
Church Planting on the Grantham Estate!
Daniel and Grace Howson projectgrantham.co.uk contact@projectgrantham.co.uk 1. Tell us a little about yourself. I am 50 years old and was born in France from missionary parents. I became a Christian when I was ten, then a year later we moved back to England and my Dad became a pastor of an Evangelical Church in Suffolk. After leaving school, I spent two years…
How Are Single Mothers Supposed To Raise Godly Young Men?
By Sharon Dickens (Women’s Worker at NCC & Single Mother) I was interested and challenged reading Mez’s blog a few months ago about raising our sons to be Godly men. One of the questions rolling around my head has simply been, “How different is it raising godly men when the father is absent,…