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The Four P’s Of A Fathful Pastorate
Another great resource from 9Marks as Mark Dever delivers a sermon on the requirements for pastoral office. Download it here.
Hand Waving In Services: A Beginners Guide
This is dedicated to my Assistant Pastor, Andy Constable, our in-house hand waving guru. I’m more of an elbow flapping man myself but I am assured that as long as I am doing it with my eyes closed, my face lifted up and an earnest expression on my face, it looks really spiritual. [youtube=http://youtu.be/TK2_ezOBa2A]
15 Steps To A Long & Healthy Ministry In Housing Schemes!
Sometimes it’s the early morning phone call or the Sunday afternoon text when you’re settling down with the family. A crisis is at hand and you’re the one being called to deal with it. Emotions conflict. Is it an emergency? Can somebody else do it? Can it wait until tomorrow?…
How to Pray the Bible
Here is a great spiritual resource based on Matthew Henry’s method for prayer. Check out the website here. Its aim is to promote, encourage and assist in biblical praying.
How Do We Reach People On Housing Schemes With The Gospel?
I often get asked how and why we have so many contacts and have so many unchurched people attending our services throughout the week. The answer is quite simple: 1. We pray for people. Are you really praying for people in your area, consistently, specifically an intelligently. when I first came to…
8 Way To Pray During sermon Preparation
Michael McKinley has written a helpful little article on the 9Marks site. Read it here.
God The Source of all Good
O LORD God, who inhabitest eternity, Thy heavens declare thy glory, The earth thy riches, The universe is thy temple; Thy presence fills immensity, Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life, and communicated happiness; Thou hast made me what I am, and given me what I have; In thee I live and move and have my being; Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation, and…
10 Marks of Effective Church Plants (10)
Prayer Stetzer’s 10th mark is ‘Appreciating & Participating in Ancient Patterns’ (p140) but I have gone with prayer. Without prayer we are lost. It is the engine room of any planting ‘strategy’. When I first arrived at NCC it did what all good churches do – it had a midweek ‘prayer meeting’. I say prayer but it was more…