'Niddrie Community Church' Tagged Posts (Page 49)

'Niddrie Community Church' Tagged Posts (Page 49)

Fishers of Men

I hate fishing. Hate is a strong word so let me restate. I absolutely, categorically, fundamentally hate fishing. Don’t get me wrong, I have great admiration for the courage and strength of those who trawl the seas day in and day out so I can have a nice bit of cod on a Friday. I also enjoy watching ‘Trawlermen’ on the Dave channel from time to time and…

The Danger of Perfectionism

I found this little article really helpful in terms of helping me to engage with this issue a little more. Read it here. The danger for me is that I am such a perfectionist and even though I know it is unbiblical to think like this, I get horribly disappointed and frustrated at myself for failures in my life. I do work hard at teaching my team that if we’re not…

The Trellis & The Vine

This is a good book that has been out for a couple of years now. It is written by a man called Colin Marshall who has been involved in training men and women for ministry for over 30 years. His quite obvious focus is on training men and women in our churches to be effective gospel communicators, disciplers and trainers. His thesis is that if we train more people in…

Wednesday Acoustic Thingy!

We launched a new meeting in the cafe today as a replacement for our midweek ‘recover’ programme which has come to an end after 3 months. We are basically looking to start a midweek church plant with some of the locals who frequent our building Monday-Saturday but are nowhere in sight on Sundays. Normally, our cafe shuts at 2:30pm during the week, but we have…

Reformed Theology v Hyper Calvinism

You can access an interesting article here about this subject. I find that there is a lot of ignorance in many UK churches about what it means to be ‘reformed’. I have blogged about this already but I will say that many people have a poor or caricatured understanding of what it means to hold to a ‘reformed theology’. When people first discover my…