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Introducing the Porterbrook Institute

Posted by Tim Chester on

The Porterbrook Institute provides training for church leadership with a strong missional edge. It's the sister of the acclaimed Porterbrook Learning programme and forms a natural next step for those who have completed Porterbrook Learning. The programme Director is GCM co-founder, Tim...

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Tags: porterbrook institute, porterbrook, training, leadership training, theology, theological training, church planting, church planting training, missional leadership, missional training

A Reader's Greek NT

Posted by Tim Chester on

A review of A Reader’s Greek New Testament, eds. Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski, 2nd Edition, Zondervan, 2007. Available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Maybe like me you studied NT Greek at college, but never really kept it up. Now when you pick up your Greek...

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Tags: greek, review, book, new testament

Bonhoeffer on loving real people not community ideals

Posted by Tim Chester on

I’m posting a few quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together (available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk) which I recently reviewed on my blog (here). Today some quotes on the danger of loving the dream of community, but not real people – a danger to which...

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Tags: bonhoeffer, community, ideals

Tim Keller on the Gospel in Life

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A review of Timothy Keller, Gospel in Life: Grace Changes Everything DVD and Workbook , Zondervan, 2010. In January I claimed that Tim Keller’s The Prodigal God DVD and workbook was my resource of 2009. I’m pretty confident that his new Gospel In Life DVD and workbook will my...

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Tags: tim keller, mission, training, small groups, gospel, community, the heart, the city, idolatry, work, justice, the poor