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Tattoos on The heart: Winning Gangs with Compassion
A good friend of mine gave me this book recently because he felt like it would encourage me in terms of my own ministry here in Niddrie. This book was a New York Times best seller and charts the ministry of Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest and founder and director of ‘Homeboy Industries’.…
Should we care about the regulative principle?
This is an interesting debate in the context of housing schemes. There is a helpful discussion starter to be found here on the topic.
What not to say to single women in your church (or men for that matter)!
A helpful link here from Kevin DeYoung on the thorny issue of singleness and how we should fight the urge to say stupid things and give out cliched advice.
Leaders who Grow Leaders
Great post here from Johnathan Leeman of www.9marks.org about the need for leaders who not only ‘cast vision’ and push off from the front, but also support and enable their people to engage in ministry and chase their dreams.
13 Ways the Church can Respond to the Needs of Bankrupt Britain!
I read a book this week called, ‘Bankrupt Britain: An Atlas of Social Change’ by Daniel Dorling. I, along with Ed Stetzer, have an unending fascination with statistics. I am also extremely sceptical of 95% of them at least 86.3% of the time. Some of the figures quoted are mind-boggling,…
How do we help a generation damned by a lack of any work ethic?
Those of you who know me personally or have followed this blog for any length of time will know that I read a lot of books. A while back I read a book entitled, ‘Toxic Charity:How the Church Hurts Those They Help (and How to Reverse It)’. I will enclose a short review here, although…
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. These figures run from April – December 2011. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 28,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that…
All the 2012 Bible reading plans you could ever wish for (and then some)!
It’s that time of the year when everybody is posting a whole gamut of Bible reading plans online. I have listed some of my favourite ones below. 1. CrossWay offer a comprehensive list of plans here. They also offer a couple of interesting articles on how to prioritise what books we read.…
How To Do Evangelism & Mission Through Social Media
The social media phenomenon obviously needs no introduction to those reading this blog! As with all things, there is good and bad and it can be twisted and perverted for nefarious means (love that word – thought I’d slip it in for Christmas :)). Being a good old missionary I, of course,…
Rob Bell’s Goodbye Letter to His Church
As with all things Rob Bell his farewell address to his congregation at Mars Hill was a little amusing, bemusing, befuddled, verbose and, in places, bizarre. Read it in its entirety here: