Hint: They aren’t biblical.
I am having conversations about Christian women more and more with our new Christian men. What sort of woman should they ‘look out’ for? How do you know if she’s the ‘right one’? How do you know if they like you or are just being nice to you? According to one of my men: “When […]
“We cannot defend the truth by creating caricatures.” So stands the conviction of the White Horse Inn as they have been engaging in debates with people from all sorts of theological persuasions over the last two decades. The web is a troll’s dream come true, as they move around from blog to blog and twitter […]
Long-time followers of this blog will be only too aware of my opinion(s) on the reason we have such a shortage of healthy gospel churches and trained, indigenous leadership in the poorer areas of the UK. Pretty much all of the internships, training pathways, and leadership development initiatives are aimed at, and packaged for, the […]
By and large, Christians like to speak. They have got something of eternal significance to say, after all. Yet, how many of us are poor listeners? So poor, in fact, that far too many Christians don’t have any non-Christian friends. They think they do. But they don’t. If you have been a believer for any […]
So went the (so-called) joke when I was growing up in a council estate in Yorkshire in the late 80’s. The answer? ‘At least you get a part of your kid back from a dangerous dog’. The point? In housing schemes, Social Workers are viewed as the Gestapo, with the power to turn up at […]
This book has contributions from a number of authors, including such luminaries such as: Michael Horton, Brian Vos, & Kim Riddlebarger, to name a few. The book is split into four parts: 1. The foundation of planting churches 2. The methods of planting churches 3. The work of planting churches 4. The context of planting […]
This week we have been looking at the problem of the lack of churches and indigenous leadership training in council estates and housing schemes across the UK. This is the final part of a short series looking at some practical ways we can seek to redress some of the current issues involved with church revitalisation […]
This week we are looking at the problem of the lack of churches and indigenous leadership training in council estates and housing schemes across the UK. This is the penultimate part of a short series looking at some practical ways we can seek to redress some of the current issues involved with church revitalisation and […]
This week we are looking at the problem of the lack of churches and indigenous leadership training in council estates and housing schemes across the UK. Today, and for the next few days, I would like to offer some possible solutions to tackle the issues. This is part III of a continuing series. Today, we […]
Yesterday, we looked at the problem of the lack of churches and indigenous leadership training in council estates and housing schemes across the UK. Today, and for the next few days, I would like to offer some possible solutions to tackle the issues. We need to give our younger converts ministry responsibilities more quickly than […]