When I see younger leaders stuck in the mud, itâs often because they havenât learnt one of Maxwell’s eleven lessons.
Author: Chris Green
Not every minister will âfitâ every church. If that’s you, when do you go? Should you go?
Thereâs one area of teaching that has always scared me. Money. Giving. Ker-ching.
Let me make a prediction: if you read this brief book, and rethink some of your preaching and evangelistic conversations in the light of it, you will do yourself, the gospel cause, and the people youâre speaking to a huge service.
Our local on-trend coffee shop has good publicity, chairs and paintwork. They have the proper kit as well. They like creation too.
It’s time to stop using a preaching style which kills the bible.
The issues at stake in this important book shape the inner life of almost every member of the church. Including you.
The young pastor glanced at me and nodded his head towards a crowd across the room. âThat man has a problem,â he said. I knew who he meant. But I reckon my young pastor friend was mistaken. It was the night of the Annual Meeting. Now, whatever your denomination or tribe, Iâll bet you have
âLay out the phrases in a way that makes sense to you.â Memorise that.
How one basic act opened up a well-known passage
Every evangelistically active church will find itself working all three angles
Each one had constructed a ring-fenced zone, where sin could roam free but still safely caged. Had none of them watched Jurassic Park?
If you think that saying âI donât knowâ means youâre a failure (because youâre paid to know, you ought to know) then you will never learn anything.
Did I just stick Jesus onto a Christ-less sermon, to make myself feel better? Or did I actually preach Christ?
Seven lessons from a superb new biography of a remarkable man.
You probably had somebody turn up at church last Sunday, and they hadnât been in your building before. And the pastor at some point welcomed such a person from the front, acknowledging their presence. Maybe they pointed them to the coffee, or the Welcome desk. Now think How did the pastor describe them? And what
Two magnificent exhibitions show- once again – why Christians should be interested in history. The first is at the British Library: Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War Now I suspect for most of us, the phrase âAnglo Saxonâ conjures up a mental image of a bloke in a beard with a sword, probably wearing a helmet,
Do you know which false doctrines youâd love to be true, and why? Itâs quite a revealing question.
Two issues dominate when meetings donât act on the good intentions in the room
Even the best of us can get caught in a bitterness of spirit, whether to an individual, a group, a type or even a whole church.
