Niddrie Community Church (Page 11)
What is Happening to the Church? Food For (Poetic) Thought
His holiness coloured for our sin…powerful! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ePsZNMJGMHs#!]
Where Do Housing Schemes Come From? A Brief History (1)
This is the first in a number of posts on the topic of housing schemes. In most of the UK they are known as ‘Council Estates’, in the US they are regarded as the ‘Projects’ and in Scotland they are called ‘Schemes’. They are unique, if I can use that word, to ‘Westernised, industrial’ nations. They…
What Are We Really Teaching Our Children About God & The Church?
I saw this video ages ago and I may have even posted it before but I am still deeply challenged in many different ways every time I watch it. How little we really know about the people we sit next to in our churches each week. May God help each of us to live lives that are more transparent,…
What Kind Of Leader Are You?
I read articles on leadership from time to time. As NCC grows (we will have 12 full-time staff of all levels, including me this year) I like to keep an interest on team management/leading etc. Recently, I took an online test at www.trustedadvisor.com which offers a ‘trust quotient self diagnostic test’. Obviously, these things can be fixed and slanted by a…
Should Baptism Be Spontaneous?
I am still mulling this over in Niddrie. I am so slow to baptise here, largely because I fear doing it falsely and we end up with a community of people who ‘got baptised at the mission’ but are now nowhere with the Lord. we have seen so many profess faith over the years but 90% are nowhere. This is an ongoing battle. The attraction of baptising more people and…
How To Plant A Church: 5 Principles by Steve Timmis
Click here for the link to the talks and pdf on this topic by Steve.
Planting Churches In Hard Places: But What About Your Children? (1)
I sometimes meet with and speak to young men who say that they are interested in planting churches in housing schemes. One issue in particular seems to hinder them, especially if they’re from an educated, middle class background. It’s the problem of children. They are either worried…
Ken Ham v Hugh Ross
I found this online recently. The rationale behind some of the apologetic approaches is fascinating from a natural scientific perspective. Tellingly, Ham was consistently bringing things back to Scripture as our starting point for dealing with people.See what you think. watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zgueGotRqbM#!
The Church (The Gospel Made Visible)
So, I am just back from my summer holidays and I had a bit of a 9marks love fest when it came to holiday reading. I have just picked this one off the top of my pile and I shall be reviewing each book, in no particular order, over the coming weeks. For the uninitiated to this site, this is how I review books at Niddrie Pastor. 1. Content. Is it biblical? 2. Application. Is…
You Can Make A Pretty Girl Spiritual But You Can’t Make A Spiritual Girl Pretty!
Or so goes the (somewhat daft) saying! I don’t publish too much on the issue of singleness and dating on this blog. It’s not that I have nothing to say but it is just such an emotive subject that pretty much every ‘single’ person I know will be assuming I am talking about…