Recommended Resources (Page 8)
20 Schemes – Gospel Churches For Scotland’s Poorest
We are launching our Niddrie’s new church planting initiative in the next few weeks. We currently have a Facebook page which you can like here. This weekend we will be launching our new website. Last week, as many of you know, we launched in America at the SEBTs 2012, 9Marks Conference and we…
What Are We Doing While Young Men Die?
Inner cities are little war zones in which bloody wars are fought. Gangs of young men stab and shoot each other ‘on sight’ for straying into the wrong postcode. The rest of us cross these front lines every day without knowing it – but if you’re a young man from, in this case, the Jamaican community in Birmingham you are in mortal danger whether you are armed or…
Where Will Our Future leaders Come From?
At Niddrie we will be launching a new church planting initiative within the next month. We are calling it “20Schemes” and further details will follow. We are launching this project in partnership with a church in Kentucky called Bardstown Christian Fellowship, itself planted by a Scotsman, Matthew Spandler-Davison. We are also benefitting hugely from the…
Why I Trust The Bible
John Piper answers this question here. Enjoy your Sunday.
Faith Comes By Hearing
“Faith Comes By Hearing” is a good resource site for those of us who work with people who find it difficult to read. One of the things we are currently considering at NCC is filming more Bible studies and building a contextualised, oral resource library for our ministry. If anybody knows of any similar resources or is interested in helping us develop material…
With The Greatest Of Respect I Think You’re An Idiot!
I recently discovered, ‘Writers Write’, a useful little blog on becoming a better writer. Not a Christian site but helpful nonetheless. It can be found here. The table below is from the site.
Why Christians Should Argue More & Fight Less When Debating One Another
‘We cannot defend the truth by creating caricatures’. So stands the conviction of the White Horse Inn as they have been engaging in debates with people from all sorts of theological persuasions over the last two decades. The web is a trolls dream come true as they move around from blog…
Reformed Rapping & Catechisms!
Right, here is one more post on rap! I know, I know. But I found this clip online and I was just immensely impressed by it. I also discovered a website called, ‘Reformed Rappers’ with some great articles including one, unbelievably, on the subject of the regulative principle. It’s worth a look around even if rap is not your thing. How cool is the…
Christians in Football
This is an old clip from match of the day about faith in the Premier League. The piece was presented by Gavin Peacock who is coming to Niddrie next month (October 26th-Nov 5th) for 10 days. It is fascinating to watch the reaction of Lawro and Keown as they fumble about trying to be nice about the Christian faith whilst it is patently obvious they do not believe.…
How Too Much Discipleship Was Hurting Our New Christians
Our current church membership stands at about 55, with another 15 or so waiting in the wings to be baptised. We have a Sunday attendance of anywhere between 70 and 100 (I suspect that’s roughly the same number of urinals found at any Mars Hill Church). By any description we are a small…