Posts by Jason Nelson (Page 37)
Handling Dangerous People In Your Church
A thoughtful post here from The ordinary Pastor. I am not sure I would so gracious as he in handling this type of individual.
Introducing Church Planting In Glasgow
Today’s interview is with Scott Hamilton who is the pastor at Harvest Bible Chapel Glasgow. More details about him and his work can be found at: www.harvestglasgow.org Tell is a little about yourself I’ve been married to Alison for 11 years. We have four kids under the age of five which serves the twin purposes of keeping our church attendance statistics healthy and…
Why The Atonement Matters For Church Planters (2)
Atonement’ edited by Gabriel Fluhrer (P&R Publishing 2010) This is a series of lectures about ‘blood’ according to the book’s sleeve and is a compilation of 8 essays on the topic by 7 evangelical theologians and pastors. Such is the importance of this subject for every Christian, whoever…
Missional Lifestyle v Pulpit Monologue: FIGHT!
‘Expository preaching’ can appear to be a dirty word in some church planting circles. Likewise, for many the ‘Sunday gathering’ is relegated to an afterthought in the pursuit of authentic ‘missional community’. There is talk that ‘Pulpit Preaching’…
Sunday Fun!
Come On! This could be true of me on so many levels!
Top 10 Preaching Mistakes
Food for thought for your Sunday afternoon here.
How to plant a church?
I read this article on a blog here recently and found it to be quite stimulating. OK, the ‘huddle‘ language doesn’t quite fly contextually for our situation but I get the point. Have a look at it and see what you think. It is basically the same thing as the ‘Trellis & The Vine’ stuff but I like the fact that this guy is trying to work it…
Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?
I must confess to a great deal of ambivalence to Halloween. I vaguely remember doing ‘trick or treat’ as a little boy which usually involved me and my mates ‘egging‘ doors whether people gave us a treat or not. Early in my ministry I was involved in putting on an ‘alternative’ event for the children of the church I was serving as a…
Why The Atonement Matters For Church Planters (1)
‘Atonement’ edited by Gabriel Fluhrer (P&R Publishing 2010) This is a series of lectures about ‘blood’ according to the book’s sleeve and is a compilation of 8 essays on the topic by 7 evangelical theologians and pastors. Such is the importance of this subject for every Christian,…
Do Short Term Mission Trips Do More Harm Than Good?
Many years ago in Brazil we had a team come over from the UK to do some short term ‘missions’ work (defined in this article as 1-2 week trips run by local churches). What that meant in reality was that 10 young people came over to see our project, run a couple of holiday clubs, do some…