Websites (Page 14)

Websites (Page 14)

Church Planting on the Grantham Estate!

Daniel and Grace Howson projectgrantham.co.uk contact@projectgrantham.co.uk   1.    Tell us a little about yourself. I am 50 years old and was born in France from missionary parents.  I became a Christian when I was ten, then a year later we moved back to England and my Dad became a pastor of an Evangelical Church in Suffolk. After leaving school, I spent two years…

How Are Single Mothers Supposed To Raise Godly Young Men?

By Sharon Dickens (Women’s Worker at NCC & Single Mother) I was interested and challenged reading Mez’s blog a few months ago about raising our sons to be Godly men. One of the questions rolling around my head has simply been, “How different is it raising godly men when the father is absent,…

Church Planting Supersite!!

I am always on the hunt for good resources when it comes to church planting. The problem we have in the UK is the lack of quality material on the topic, relevant to our context. The problem we have in housing schemes is contextualising material written for a largely middle class demographic. However, if you can think on your feet and are able to work hard at this,…

8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (6) Church Based Community Development (b)

Mark Dever notes on The Gospel Coalition blog, that: Since the Fall, the trajectory of unredeemed human history—the City of Man—is always in the Bible to judgment (the Flood, Babel, Canaan, Egypt, Jerusalem, Babylon, Rome & then Rev. 19). (Not quite as universal as gravity, but seemingly as…

8 Keys to Housing Scheme Gospel Ministry (6) Church Based Community Development

Part A: Church Based Community Development In his book, Generous Justice, Tim Keller states: “All I know is, if I don’t care about the poor, if my church doesn’t care about the poor, that’s evil.” Jesse Johnson, writing an article for The Cripplegate Blog, has a…

Forget Jesus: I Just Want to be Famous!

We may not be as crass to say it like that and we may not even think of it as directly as that, but I bet for many pastors trying to establish ministries, this muddled motivation has crossed our minds. With even limited success come a proliferation of invites to conferences, speaking engagements, books, reviews and articles. Trust me, it is easy to tell yourself the lie…