'Niddrie Community Church' Tagged Posts (Page 54)
Is it our job to make the gospel less offensive?
Consider this quote from Tim Keller: ‘ The church has got to become such that every part of its life is hospitable to people who are not believers or don’t know what they believe. So they can come into the groups and into worship, into virtually everything we do and not feel confused or…
Do we need worship leaders?
Many may argue against it (and do) but for me the rise of this ‘ministry’ is a very modern and ‘large church’ phenomenon. Interestingly, in Ed Stetzer’s book, he says that church plants should not consider opening their doors without having recruited a worship leader. Sorry to disagree Ed, but I just can’t see it as a necessity in the…
Government cuts mean Gospel Opportunities!
Much has been written and reported in the media about the savage spending cuts the government seem to be enforcing across large swathes of our local community resources. I am not interested in pushing a political view but I am interested in observing, thinking about and acting upon what this means for the Christian church (both here and Niddrie and further afield). The…
Incapacity Blaggers?
I have just read this article on the BBC website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13152349. What is interesting for me working in Niddrie is that we are dealing with practically every person categorised on their list of Incapacity Benefit (IB) claimants. I am unsure what they mean by the term ‘unknown causes’. It is a little troubling given that 130,000…
The Love Of God
Todays Reading From Don Carson’s book The Love Of God. FEW PASSAGES HAVE PROVED more popular at evangelical ordination services than, “Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction” (2 Tim. 4:2). We reflect, first, on the charge itself. It may be broken down into four components.…
Reflections on Chicago’s Gospel Coalition Conference 2011
I just spent a week in the ‘windy city’ so called (according to R Kent Hughes) because its politicians of long ago were infamous for their long, drawn out speeches and not (as I had thought) because it was simply windy (which it was)! Anyway, during my time there I was privileged to…
The Mission Café
This is a video we made to let people know about our church café. The Mission Café is one of the bedrocks of our ministry here in Niddrie. We open nearly every day of the week. Some days are busier than others but more often than not the conversations will turn to spiritual things. Mary, the lady in the clip, was recently saved after going through the ‘Soul’…