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MAY
2013
Why Gods Hatred Of Sinners Gives Us The Freedom To Love Them
‘Totally depraved sinners, who had violated the honour and glory of God and had committed an infinite fault, could only hope for one way by which the honour and dignity of God could be restored – an infinite sacrifice. To provide the sacrifice, God had to become man and endure the pun
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MAY
2013
Why American Church Planters In Scotland Need Not Be The End Of The World.
I have recently returned from a 2 week trip to the USA, in an effort to drum up support for the work of 20schemes. In a packed schedule I visited Immanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, pastored by Robert Briggs, one of the members of our advisory board. In partnership with 9Marks, we
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MAY
2013
How Should We Disciple Former Drug Addicts?
This article was originally written by Andy Constable, the Pastoral Assistant at Niddrie Community Church, Edinburgh. We live in a community that has been heavily damaged by drugs. Most of the people that we work with have a steady diet of prescribed as well as street (unprescribed) d
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MAY
2013
The Silliness of Social Engineering
An article on the BBC website caught my eye last year. “London’s New Housing Loses The “Dirty Word” Apparently new homes being built in London are now being renamed, ‘neighbourhoods’ instead of ‘estates’ because the powers that be feel that the latter has a pejorative association. Ind
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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
How Do I know If I Could I Plant A Church In A Housing Scheme?
Because church planting seems to be “in” at the moment, there seems to be an endless supply of young men (and old) putting themselves forward as “planters”. Interestingly, very few feel “called” to housing schemes/council estates (although a few of us in the UK are seeing a slow but s
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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
Why The Doctrine Of Atonement Matters To The Poor
Without the cross of Jesus Christ there is no gospel. There simply is no good news without the cross. Indeed, any attempt to preach the gospel, minus the cross, is to offer people a placebo rather than the very medicine they require. (Alistair Begg) There can be a misapprehension in s
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APR
2013
Are Bible Studies Helping Or Harming Our People?
“When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. Master it.” — John Piper Bible study is an important topic for all of us trying to help people grow in the knowledge of God and for pointing unbelievers to Jesus Christ. The
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APR
2013
Why Would A Baptist Want To Help Build Healthy Presbyterian Churches?
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I am a (very convinced) Reformed Baptist, ministering and working in an independent Evangelical Church. I have even written a short book on preparing people (confessing believers) for baptism (see here for details). Since my move to Scotland 6 years ago I became aware of ‘Presbyterian
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Building healthy gospel centered churches for Scotland’s poorest communities
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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