So this takes the prize as the first book I read on my recent holiday. There is no particular reason it worked out that way. I merely woke up, reached out and picked up the first book from the pile on my bedside cabinet and it turned out to be this bad boy.  With a […]

Steven recently went through a three day detox to come off all of his medication for the first time in over two decades. We are grateful to God for His mercy and grace.

Here is another of our new believers recently being baptised in Niddrie. We are encouraged to see men and women of all ages coming to faith in Christ in the schemes.

We have had a number of amazing conversion stories in Niddrie in recent months. None more so than the story of Tracy & Steven, childhood sweethearts who had been through the wars in almost 27 years together. Her partner Steven was a mess. Cheating on her, in and out of rehab, selling and taking drugs, […]

“Now the works of the flesh are evident: …enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy… and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Gal. 5:19–21) I was talking to one of our trainees about the […]

There is so much being said about the poor. We should be involved in this project or that, each one telling me, or at least implying, that if I don’t, I’m uncaring and heartless. So much of it is written as “them and us”. History clearly shows that much of it quickly becomes compromised on the […]

If you want to start a fight in a church, start a debate on the Doctrine of God’s Election. If you are not sure what that means, then read how The Belgic Confession briefly summarises it: “We believe that all the posterity of Adam, being thus fallen into perdition and ruin by the sin of […]

The more I (begin to) understand the American mindset when it comes to church planting, it becomes clear that many (not all) of our cousins differ to us on the notion of success. How do we know when we have made it? How do we gauge when we have been successful in planting? Some think […]

What do we do with the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 10:39? “Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.” The context is sending out the 12 to proclaim the ‘kingdom of heaven’ (10:7). They were sent out as‘sheep amongst wolves’ (10:16) […]

This is a book that quite simply introduces us to the devil. Who is he? Where did he come from? We learn that his main job is to destroy and undermine the goodness of God’s creation. “He defaces the image of God in human beings”. (p.23) Mike looks at Satan’s strategies in the world today, […]