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Obstacles to intimacy with God

Posted by Tim Chester on

More quotes from Francis Chan’s The Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, David C. Cook, 2009. Available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. “It’s breathtaking to picture Almighty God saying, ‘I know Francis Chan. He’s my son. I love...

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Tags: holy spirit, review, spirit, francis chan

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Posted by Tim Chester on

More quotes from Francis Chan’s The Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, David C. Cook, 2009. Available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. St Basil the Great: “What does the Spirit do? His works are ineffable in majesty and innumerable in...

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Francis Chan on The Forgotten God

Posted by Tim Chester on

A review of Francis Chan, The Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, David C. Cook, 2009. Available here from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk I love this book. I suspect that for most readers of this blog it will not add much that you did not already know (and, to be...

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Tags: holy spirit, review, spirit, francis chan

A prayer for church planters and Bible teachers

Posted by Tim Chester on

Here's a prayer for church leaders and Bible teachers ... Lord, I rejoice to suffering for your people .....and I accept more of Christ’s afflictions ....for the sake of his body, the church.You have commissioned me ....to be a servant of the church, to present to your people your word in...

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Tags: leadership, prayer, colossians, suffering, christ

A review of Becoming a Contagious Christian DVD course

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A review of Becoming a Contagious Christian course with DVD, CD, workbook and leader's guide by Mark Mittelberg, Lee Strobel and Bill Hybels, Zondervan, 2007. Available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. The Becoming a Contagious Christian course is an updated version of a previous...

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Tags: evangelism, training

A review of Church 3.0 by Neil Cole

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A review of Neil Cole, Church 3.0: Upgrades for the Future of the Church, Jossey-Bass, 2010. Available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. This review is by Dan, a church planter with The Crowded House in Sheffield, UK. Neil Cole’s Church 3.0 is step on from his Organic...

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Tags: book, review, church 3.0, neil cole

Bonhoeffer on the community together and apart

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I’m posting a few quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together which I recently reviewed (here). Today some quotes on the relationship between the Christian community and activities outside our shared life. ‘Every day brings the Christian many hours of being...

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Tags: bonhoeffer, solitude, community

Tom Wright on hope

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A review of N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope DVD and Workbook, Zondervan, 2010 The DVD is available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. The Participant’s Guide is available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. This review is by Dan, a church planter with The Crowded...

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Tags: hope, future, renewal, study-guide

Why We Need to Preach the Sovereignty of God in Deprived Areas Part Two

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These notes are from a talk by Duncan Forbes at the recent Reaching the Unreached [http://www.reachingtheunreached.org.uk/] conference in Barnsley, in the UK. They are my notes from a talk so they may not accurately represent what Duncan intended. 3. God has sovereignly arranged deprived...

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Tags: deprived, sovreignty, preach, god, council estate

Why We Need to Preach the Sovereignty of God in Deprived Areas Part One

Posted by Tim Chester on

  These notes are from a talk by Duncan Forbes at the recent Reaching the Unreached [http://www.reachingtheunreached.org.uk/] conference in Barnsley, in the UK. They are my notes from a talk so they may not accurately represent what Duncan intended. Duncan grew up on an...

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Tags: deprived, sovreignty, preach, god, council estate

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