'Niddrie Pastor' Tagged Posts (Page 31)
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.
The Rise & Fall of Housing Estates
This book is written by Lynsey Hanley and published by Granta books in 2007. This is quite a lengthy book (245 pages) given that it only contains 6 chapters. Is written by a lady who was born in a large housing estate in Birmingham, UK and latterly lived in the East End of London. She writes with a tangible sense of injustice at the way those of us who come from…
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…
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#!]
Pastor loses it whilst preaching on love!
Hehe…very good…I presume this little set up was shown at the beginning of the service as a reminder to people. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PMJkzW6jSRE]
Replanting Dying Churches with Mark Dever
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P2gMMq-c5k&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…
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:
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…
All You Can Eat Buffet on The resurrection!
Adrian Warnock has a whole host of links and resources on the resurrection of Jesus. Enjoy yourself here.