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Is youth ministry biblical? PART 2
A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to an American short film called Divided. If you missed it, here’s the first post: ‘Is youth ministry biblical?‘ As promised, I’m going to take the opportunity over the next few weeks to reflect on some of the issues raised by the movie. According to the movie, ‘youth ministry’ has no basis in Scripture,…
A response to grumpy reformed pastors
Apparently John MacArthur has kicked up a bit of a fuss with a swing at the Young, Reformed & Restless brigade in the USA. Read what he has to say here.One of my fav bloggers has then responded to this, I think very ably and graciously, here.
Young Ministers v Old Ministers
If you’re a young minister, frustrated by the older generation of pastor’s and their attitude toward you and your ministry, read this and repent. If you are an older minister who despairs of the younger generation, their new fangled ways of doing things and their almost arrogant disregard for church tradition, read this and repent. Every single person needs to…
Learning from the life of Jonathan Edwards (1)
A sizeable 615 pages (the last 100 or so being footnotes and appendices), this is the sort of book that strikes fear into all but the most avid of readers. It looks unwieldy and intimidating but I think that it is so good that it merits a long review over 4 parts. Part I: His Early Years, Revival…
Interviewing Church Planters (1)
I have decided to try and embark on a series of interviews on Mondays with church planters form around the globe. The aim is to try and get different perspectives form different types of work to see if we can learn any lessons that will help us promote the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It will also be helpful in terms of encouraging one another to pray. Now there…
How to spot if you are a Hipster!
Learn if you are painfully uber cool and also how your tribe evolved dude(s)!! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTI7eWaQbk&feature=player_embedded#!]
Idealistic Community v Realistic Community
What a great little post from Brad Evangelista here on this issue. The post is from 2009 but it is a great reminder for us as we live in a consumerist, church hopping culture. Bonhoeffer’s little book, ‘Life Together’ which he quotes from, is a 100% convicting, God honouring piece of literature that I would recommend to all. Take the time to check out…
Low Self Esteem? It’s Worse Than You Think!
by Andy Constable We live in a society that has bought into the idea that people need their self-esteem boosted. The problem, psychologists tell us, with people is that they think too lowly of themselves and they don’t love themselves enough. If people would simply think more highly of themselves…
‘Plastic’ Calvinists Kill Evangelism, Not Calvinism!
If you want to start a fight in a church, start a debate on the Doctrine of God’s Election. If you are not sure what that means then read how The Belgic Confession briefly summarises it: ‘We believe that all the posterity of Adam, being thus fallen into perdition and ruin by the sin of our first…
Question Time – Niddrie Stylee!
Host: ‘Welcome to this night special edition of QT where we are operating from one of Scotland’s most deprived housing schemes. We will be discussing, amongst other things, the recent riots and what we, as a society, can learn from them. On the panel tonight we have a local drugs support worker, a community support worker, a mental health support worker, a social worker,…