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Archive for the ‘Prayer’ Category
Four Reminders For Church Planters & Pastors
Posted: May 31, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, WebsitesTags: church planters, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Pastors, Sojourn
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Help! I Want to Plant a Church But My Wife’s Not So Keen!
Posted: May 30, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, Websites, Women and WivesTags: church planter's wives, church planters, church planting, Domestic Kingdom, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, The church planting spouse
This has become something of an ‘issue’ for many men I have known in the last 5 years. I don’t know if it is because we work in a housing scheme or if the problem is more widespread. In my 13 years in the ministry I can say without doubt that one of the biggest [...]
Building a Gospel Centred Community
Posted: May 11, 2012 by conand17 in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Tarquin SyndromeTags: Andy Constable, community, Eugene Peterson, evangelism, fellowship, Gospel, Mez McConnell, preaching, Tim Keller
by Andy Constable I am very privileged to work in an environment that is gospel focused. I came onto the Niddrie team 2 years ago and one of the reasons for doing so was because Mez’s vision was and is to bring the gospel to bear in his life, the life of the church and [...]
T4G Conference 2012: Missionary Pastors Grow Missionary Churches (7)
Posted: May 10, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, T4G Conference 2012, WebsitesTags: David Platt, evangelism, Mez McConnell, missions, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Pastors, T4G
Speaker: David Platt Text: Revelation 5 Title: Divine Sovereignty: The Fuel of Death-Defying Missions Find the sermon online here. For those of you who have been following these posts, this is my final one. The more beady eyed among you will know that there were 9 main sessions at T4G but I only took notes [...]
T4G Conference 2012: When We Feel Like Giving Up (6)
Posted: May 9, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, T4G Conference 2012, WebsitesTags: CJ Mahaney, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Perseverance, T4G 2012, Temptation
“The Temptation to Lose Heart” Speaker: CJ Mahaney Text: 2 Corinthians 4 Title: The Sustaining Power of the Gospel I always find CJ to be an immensely pastoral type speaker (with a tendency to wander off the beaten track from time to time!) and this message was no different. His basic premise was to encourage [...]
T4G Conference 2012 (5): The Message That Saved My Ministry!
Posted: May 8, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Church Planting, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, T4G Conference 2012Tags: Elijah, Ligon Duncan, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, NiddriePastor, T4G
Speaker: Ligon Duncan Text: 1 Kings 19 Title: The Underestimated God: God’s Ruthless, Compassionate Grace in the Pursuit of His Own Glory and His Ministers’ Joy I tell you what they don’t go for the snappy soundbite titles these boys! This one was definitely up there for the “whose sounds most like a puritan work” [...]
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 [...]
T4G Conference 2012: Relating it to Housing Schemes (2)
Posted: May 1, 2012 by mezmcconnell in Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, T4G Conference 2012Tags: Hope, Matt Chandler, Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Revelation, T4G
Speaker: Matt Chandler Text: Revelation 21 & 22 Title: The Fulfillment of the Gospel I will say that I find Matt Chandler to be (on the outside at least) an extremely Godly, humble and passionate man for the gospel of the Lord Jesus. He oozes class. I think his appointment to Acts29 is a shrewd [...]
Engaging Muslims with the Gospel
Posted: April 27, 2012 by conand17 in Apologetics, Discipleship, Doctrine & Theology, Evangelism, Leadership/Ministry Training, Missional Living, Niddrie Community Church, Prayer, Preaching, Random Stuff, Recommended Resources, Tarquin Syndrome, WebsitesTags: Mez McConnell, Niddrie Community Church, Niddrie Pastor, Gospel, apologetics, Andy Constable, Islam, Muslim, J.D. Greear, Breaking the Islam Code, apostate, persecution, contextualisation
By Andy Constable This week I was privileged to attend the Acts29WE conference in London. Mez is going to write a report on what he learned from the main sessions, but I thought I would share one of the seminars that I attended on ‘engaging with Muslims’. It was taken by J.D. Greear who spent [...]
