Gloria Furman is the author of, Glimpses of Grace, Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full, and The Pastor’s Wife. She lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with her husband Dave, a pastor, and their four children. Gloria is a member of Redeemer Church of Dubai and blogs at gloriafurman.com. In this video, Gloria answers […]
In this video, Mez and Lewis discuss how churches from different areas and social backgrounds can be working together for the furtherance of the gospel.
We put this question to Lewis Allen recently when he was with us for a church weekend away. This is one of the most popular questions we are asked when it comes to ministry in schemes and council estates. There are many who think we should dispense with the sermon full stop and just have […]
Brian Fikkert, author of When Helping Hurts, Professor of Economics & Community Development at Covenant College, and Executive Director of The Chalmers Center, answers the question: “What is the greatest challenge facing the church when it comes to evangelism and discipleship in deprived communities?”
I am being approached more and more by people (always middle class) who are not convinced by the issue of class within the UK. According to one recent conversation, 20schemes is“over egging the pudding” and, incredibly, “deliberately and provocatively stirring up dissension that doesn’t really exist”. Certainly, whenever I am invited to speak about the […]
Lewis Allen is the pastor of Hope Church, Huddersfield. He is also the director of Gospel Yorkshire, an organisation committed to the spread of gospel churches in the Yorkshire area. Lewis recently joined Niddrie Community Church on our annual weekend away, where he taught a series on the guarding the heart. We spent some time […]
This book fell into my hands through my friendship with 9Marks. They asked me to do a review for them, but it laid on my pile for months before I got round to it. It was one of those that I picked up but then got distracted by another one and so put it back […]
About a month ago, we had a pastor from America visit us for a few days. Anthony Mathenia is a pastor from Radford, Virginia (Christchurch, Radford) and is also on the board of Heartcry Missionary Society, a worldwide organisation. We found the big fella to be very quiet and very respectful of what we are […]
A couple of weeks ago I went to New Word Alive to deliver a couple of seminars on poverty in the UK and reaching the lost on council estates (and schemes). My only previous experience of NWA had been two years prior when a couple of us had gone with a stand to publicise the […]