Hint: They aren’t biblical.
Let me tell you a story about a pastor called John who lives in a small town in Scotland. You’ve never heard of him and you’ve never heard of his community. Where he lives unemployment is high, drug abuse is off the charts, and life is hard and short. John was saved about 10 years […]
In this episode, Mez hosts a panel with pastors working in some of the hardest places around the world.
In this episode, Mez McConnell and Andy Mathieson discuss how to pastor well while battling mental illness.
In this episode, Mez McConnell talks with Andy Paterson and Jonathan Prime about whether Christian leaders who have failed morally should be restored to ministry.
In this episode, Mez McConnell and John Stevens discuss the decline of healthy churches in council estates and housing schemes across the UK.
This is the final section of a three-part series on Theodore Dalrymple’s book Life at the Bottom, which explores the lives of the ‘underclass’ living on schemes. In the chapter ‘Choosing to Fail’, Dalrymple strikes right at the heart of the problems we face in the schemes. Commenting on the many excuses that people have […]
In this episode, Mez McConnell and Chris Davidson discuss how church planters can cultivate a community centred on the gospel.
This is the second in a three-part series on Theodore Dalrymple’s book Life at the Bottom, which explores the lives of the ‘underclass’ living on schemes and council estates in the UK. Dalrymple’s chapter ‘Goodbye, Cruel World’ is particularly helpful in catching the underlying social pressures of living on a council estate. He talks of […]
In this episode, Ian Williamson (guest host) talks with Robert Manda about how churches can raise up leaders in some of the world's most isolated places.
My name is Carrie, I’m almost 60, and while most of my friends and other people my age are preparing for retirement, I did the unthinkable. Eight months ago I sold my belongings and left family, kids, and precious grandkids to move across the ocean to a small community in the east end of Glasgow. […]