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MAY
2013
The Meaning Of Marriage
The first thing I would say about any book on marriage is that I feel a sense of conviction and belief about what is being written when I know the couple are mature and have been in “the fight” for many decades. It’s why I body swerved a certain Mark Driscoll’s book in favour of this.
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MAY
2013
Winning Gangs With Compassion
This book was a New York Times best seller and charts the ministry of Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit priest and founder and director of ‘Homeboy Industries’. Their mission statement sums up what they do far more adequately than I could hope to: Our Mission: Jobs not Jails: Homeboy Ind
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APR
2013
What Do I Do When I Feel Like Moving On?
The Greener Grass Conspiracy – ‘Finding contentment on your side of the fence’ by Stephen Altrogge (Crossway 2011) I picked this book up because the title intrigued me and because I was going through a phase in my life when I began wondering if I would be happier by having a ch
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APR
2013
Why We Must Support Church Planting Among The Poor In The Welsh Valleys
by mez
As regular readers of this blog know, this site is dedicated to issues largely relating to church planting within the housing schemes of Scotland. However, there are thousands of places similar to ours up and down the UK. Wales is an example of a country that was once swept up in gosp
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APR
2013
Being A Church Planters Wife
by mez
A friend recently recommended this book to me so I gave it to wife, who I felt was much better qualified to read and review it for the blog. This is her opinion on the book below. I found this book to be an honest reflection of being a church planting wife. Christine Hoover openly sha
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MAR
2013
Why Love Just Isn’t Enough To Plant A Church
A Book Review of: The Church & The Surprising Offense (sic) Of God’s Love by J. Leeman Let me start by saying that this is quite a chunky book, considering the strap line: ‘Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline.’ 350+ pages on the topic of membersh
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MAR
2013
Good News To The Poor: “Sharing The Gospel Through Social Involvement”
by mez
Let me start by saying that at 170+ pages long this book by Tim Chester is a short, sharp read on what can be quite an involved topic. For those of us who have read anything written by Ron Sider, particularly, it is not going to add anything new to our armoury, but it is British! In C
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JAN
2013
A Book On Preaching That All Church Planters Must Own!
I picked this book up a while ago and recently got around to reading it. The subheading is: “With illustrations from the sermons of Thomas Watson”. The book was so good that instead of reading it in my customary speedy fashion I forced myself to read a chapter and then slowly digest i
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JAN
2013
Walking With The Poor
by mez
I bought this book with no little excitement given the list of theological luminaries that have recently been recommending it as a must read. Ron Sider, for instance, calls it: “probably the best book on how to do holistic community development.” There is no doubt that it is certainly
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Our long term desire is to see Scotland’s housing schemes transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ through the planting of gospel-preaching churches, ultimately led by a future generation of indigenous church leaders.
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