In the video above, Paul Tripp talks about the danger of finding our identity in Christian Ministry, rather and in Christ, and offers helpful reflection on how to address this sin.
Month: January 2013
Gospel Partnerships New Website
Just in time for the South East Gospel Partnership Annual Conference, a new website has been launched by the gospel partnerships to support the churches involved throughout the UK. You can find it by clicking here, and it may be a site to bookmark for future reference.
Hosea 4 – Hosea, Jesus and Me
Hosea 2:14-3:5 – Return and Repentance
Science and the Christian
Science a personal view from St Helen’s Church on Vimeo.
St Helen’s Bishopsgate have produced a series of videos with a number of of Christians who are scientists explaining how their faith makes sense of science.
Watch the video above for an overview or click here for a full list of all of the videos in the series.
Hitchens on the Christianity and the state of the nation
Peter Hitchens has had a couple of excellent articles on the state of Christianity in the UK recently on his blog. Here is the most recent one, written in the light of the European Court ruling against 3 Christians, and here is an article Peter wrote a few months back on how 20+ years of socialist propaganda has done it’s job in changing the moral and religious culture within the UK.
Still not professionals – free ebook
A few years back John Piper wrote a book on Christian ministry entitled, Brothers, we are not professionals. It’s well worth a read if you’ve not done so. For those who have, Piper has added a collection of 10 pleas to pastors, in a new addition of the book. The new chapters, from a collection of contributors, can be downloaded for free as a separate ebook here.
Hosea 2:2-13 – Leaving Jesus
Selling our kids’ inheritance
The newspapers have been full of comment this week on how there has been nothing to support families in the government mid-term review, something that the Christian Institute highlight here.
However the majority of UK Christians have not woke up to the fact that our secular establishment are actively seeking to ensure they do anything but support the family unit, as it’s a huge threat to their own agenda.
The latest move to decrease or remove child-benefits while at the same time increasing the childcare tax allowances to support working mothers by providing for nursery care, is a prime example of this in action.
The government has no interest in seeing parents raise their own children – they may end up becoming free-thinking enough to oppose the very worldview the secular government is frantically preaching.
- Children who spend the majority of their time at home are likely to take on the worldview of their parents
- Children who spend the majority of their time in state funded childcare are likely to take on the worldview of the state.
Far better to reward parents for indoctrinating their children from infancy with the message that the state is their god who provides for their every need, than allow godly parents to nurture young plants that will in time, become the Lord’s oak trees.
Free NIV Bible App
With most free electronic versions of the NIV you have to be connected to the internet to view them. During the month of January, You Version are providing the NIV to download so that you can read it whilst offline.
It’s available for iPhone/ iPad / Android / Symbian / Kindle / Windows Phone / 8 and a few other platforms so it’s likely you’ll be able to run it on your device. You can go about doing that by clicking here.
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