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The Danger of Perfectionism
I found this little article really helpful in terms of helping me to engage with this issue a little more. Read it here. The danger for me is that I am such a perfectionist and even though I know it is unbiblical to think like this, I get horribly disappointed and frustrated at myself for failures in my life. I do work hard at teaching my team that if we’re not…
The Trellis & The Vine
This is a good book that has been out for a couple of years now. It is written by a man called Colin Marshall who has been involved in training men and women for ministry for over 30 years. His quite obvious focus is on training men and women in our churches to be effective gospel communicators, disciplers and trainers. His thesis is that if we train more people in…
Wednesday Acoustic Thingy!
We launched a new meeting in the cafe today as a replacement for our midweek ‘recover’ programme which has come to an end after 3 months. We are basically looking to start a midweek church plant with some of the locals who frequent our building Monday-Saturday but are nowhere in sight on Sundays. Normally, our cafe shuts at 2:30pm during the week, but we have…
Reformed Theology v Hyper Calvinism
You can access an interesting article here about this subject. I find that there is a lot of ignorance in many UK churches about what it means to be ‘reformed’. I have blogged about this already but I will say that many people have a poor or caricatured understanding of what it means to hold to a ‘reformed theology’. When people first discover my…
Take a guilt free break
This is a short article from resurgence (here) on taking a break to avoid burnout. I have to confess that I am almost useless at doing this. If I have a spare hour or two in the day I have to fill it by reading or doing something ‘productive’ because I find it so difficult to switch off. Any ideas?
Clueless Church
This was a very wry post written by Paul Levy here.
Why we plant churches
A talk by Richard Coekin – an uptight Brit!! [vimeo http://vimeo.com/23693117]
Who Should lead a church plant?
A lecture from Mark Driscoll on the issue of church planting. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/23990625]
Can I Pastor when my wife & I disagree on our roles?
I thought this was a thought provoking little read from Russell D Moore. See article here.
Getting to the heart of our conflict
I have just read a great article by Ken Sande on the issue of conflict and the progression of idolatry in our hearts. You can read an extract from his book here. I have been greatly challenged in recent years by the work of CCEF and some of the masterful books they have written. I am going to review some of them in the coming weeks. Even though they are written from an…