By Andy Constable Last week we were at a conference for gospel centred churches who are working in housing scheme/housing estate ministry. The conference was focused on the book of Titus and the main speakers did a great job at expounding it for the context of estate ministries. One of the things that struck me [...]
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Why The Trinity Matters!
Posted: May 25, 2012 by conand17 in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Doctrine & Theology, Leadership/Ministry Training, Niddrie Community Church, Preaching, Tarquin SyndromeTags: Andy Constable, Cross, Doctrine & theology, Ed Sanders, housing schemes, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Titus, Trinity
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What Should Christians Really Think About the Homosexual Marriage Debate?
Posted: May 14, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Apologetics, Audio, Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Leadership/Ministry Training, Niddrie Community Church, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, Video, Websites, Women and Wives, YouthTags: Christianity Today, EPM, Homosexuality and the Christian, justin taylor, Kevin De Young, Matt Chnadler, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Randy Alcorn, Stephen Altrogge, The Bible, The Blazing center, the gospel coalition, The White Horse Inn
The issue, as per usual, is all over the media once again. Hats off to the homosexual lobby for keeping this issue alive. I read somewhere that there are less homosexuals in our country than evangelicals, but whilst we all waste time fighting about hymn books and the use of drums in worship, they have [...]
What is the one thing Pastors should be competent to do?
Posted: May 6, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: Biblical counselling, Bill Kynes, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, NiddriePastor, Pastoral Ministry, The gospel, the gospel coalition
I am a physician with but one medicine to prescribe, and that is the gospel of Christ. It may need to be applied in various ways, various aspects of it may need to receive the right emphasis, and it may need to be administered in the right form. But only the gospel of Jesus Christ [...]
How To Keep Going when People Screw Us & We Want To Give Up!
Posted: March 23, 2012 by conand17 in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Tarquin SyndromeTags: Andy Constable, discipleship, God's soveriengty, Gospel, idol, Mez McConnell, missional living, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, parable of the sower, Rest
By Andy Constable The last couple of weeks have been particularly tough and tiring in Niddrie. One of our “pre-interns” who was getting his life together in Christ made a very unwise decision to leave the structure of our tailored discipleship programme/life to go back to his home town. The decision was not prayerfully considered, [...]
How Should We Respond When People Attack Us?
Posted: March 9, 2012 by conand17 in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Tarquin SyndromeTags: Andy Constable, car smashed, David, deliver, judgment, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Perseverance, Psalm, Suffering, violence
By Andy Constable Four weeks ago, at 11pm on a Friday night, our door bell rang. My wife and I were asleep and we ignored it because we thought it was kids messing about. But it rang again and so I got up and opened the door to find our neighbour at there. She apologised [...]
Do You Love Sport More Than Christ?
Posted: March 2, 2012 by conand17 in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Tarquin SyndromeTags: Andy Constable, Bible, future hope, idol, jesus, Men, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, sport
By Andy Constable Like most men, I love sport. It is something that has always been part of my life from an early age. I especially enjoy playing or watching football! Sport is a great creation by God and is something we should enjoy. However, many men, including myself, need to watch that sport doesn’t [...]
Self Esteem: Fact or Fiction?
Posted: February 15, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Niddrie Community Church, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, Websites, Women and WivesTags: Biblical counselling, biblical counselling for women, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, self esteem, Women
Good post here on the Biblical Counselling for Women blog
You never marry the ‘right’ person
Posted: February 12, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Niddrie Community Church, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: Justin Buzzard, marriage, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Tim Keller
Great article here on Justin Buzzard’s blog concerning Tim Keller’s book on marriage.
Coping With Terminal Illness
Posted: February 11, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Niddrie Community Church, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, Video, WebsitesTags: CJ Mahaney, death, Gospel Coalition, Matt Chandler, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, pastoral theology, Suffering, T4G 2010
This is an extremely emotive topic and anybody who has been in ministry for a length of time will have faced this particularly painful scenario. I have dealt with several sudden deaths in Niddrie, from overdoses to accidents, young and old. It is a brutal reminder of our mortality and the preciousness of life. Families [...]
Are You a Porn Addict?
Posted: February 10, 2012 by conand17 in Biblical/Pastoral Counselling, Discipleship, Leadership/Ministry Training, Niddrie Community Church, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: Addiction, Andy Constable, Cross, discipleship, Every man's Battle, Holiness, Jesus Christ, Men, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, pornography, sexual sin
by Andy Constable We live in a highly sexualised culture with a multi billion pound sex industry. In the USA, 3000 dollars per second is spent on pornography. Sadly, this is a problem that many Christian men struggle with. They try to escape the reality of their lives through sexual fantasising. They give in to [...]
