'Niddrie Community Church' Tagged Posts (Page 31)
10 Honest Questions Ministries Need to ask Donors/Volunteers
I have been reading a new book which I hope to be reviewing shortly on how Christians should work in the realm of community renewal. I found the following questions very helpful from a church perspective when considering if and when we should receive outside ‘teams’ of young people who…
What Kind of Leaders do Housing Schemes Need?
Before we kick off let’s take ‘Bible believing’, ‘gospel loving’ and ‘evangelical’ as axioms 🙂 If we are to make any progress in housing schemes then we must be encouraging and growing the following types of leaders: 1. They must be able to see what other people cannot see. Where normal people see a problem, a visionary leader…
How Social Media is Changing the Way we do Youth Ministry
“I’d die if I didn’t have my BlackBerry.” Recent comment from young person According to the news, a UK survey shows that TV is being pushed aside by mobile internet devices in the lives of young people. Among 7-16 year olds, 61% have a mobile phone with internet access, and use that phone for an…
Understanding the people we are trying to reach for Jesus
Research is a key component in any kind of church ministry. It doesn’t matter whether you are in a settled congregation, renewing a dying work, or planting from scratch, we need to research. What kind of church do we want to be? If we are going to answer this question with any degree of…
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.
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…
How much does it really cost to follow Jesus?
Happy New Year to you all. I am preaching on Mark 8:34 to kick off 2012 at NCC. I found this little hardcore clip which some of you may like (and some of you definitely won’t!). 🙂 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JQOBMi4QS8&feature=player_embedded#!]
Some inspiration for those who ate too much at Christmas!
According to some statistics (always 103% reliable) released this year by the European Alliance for National Health, on average we consume 7000-8000 calories on Christmas Day alone. That is 4 times our recommended daily average! No wonder so many of us collapse guiltily on to the sofa promising…
You shouldn’t be reading this…It’s Christmas Day!
Have a wonderful day with family & friends and, more importantly for those of us who love the Lord Jesus, may today’s Christmas service honour Jesus in every way! Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made…
Don’t work in schemes if you can’t use your brain!
By Andy Constable Biblical thinking can very often be in short supply among many young Christians who want to work in ‘poorer’ areas. They can be guilty of explicitly reasoning that ‘thinking’ is somehow unspiritual or implicitly believing that the people they are working with only need…