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| Armour of God | Genuine conflict | | Soldiers aren’t surprised when they have to engage in warfare. But I sense that sometimes we’re shocked when we hit difficult times. We think we’ve found the secret of happiness but we’ve also found a life in which we need to wear the armour every day!
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| Armour of God | The shield of faith | | The apostle Paul doesn’t say, ‘Have faith in faith’. He says, ‘Fight the good fight of faith’. He’s referring to the kind of faith that counters the fiery arrows of the evil one. It protects you, defends you against fierce hostility.
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| Missional Church planting | 'Go and make disciples' | | Jesus commanded the Apostles to go and make disciples. They instinctively went and planted churches. Church life is the key to discipleship and creates an alternative culture where heavenly values can be formed on earth. Getting the church right is theref
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| Missional Church planting | In the World, for the World | | Like Jesus, we must be God-focussed, yet manifestly incarnational. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, not distanced from us. His first sign was performed not in the temple precinct (which would have been Satan’s preference) but at a wedding party!
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| J.O. Fraser on Prayer | | J.O. Fraser, sometimes called ‘Fraser of Lisuland’ is one of my great heroes. He was a China Inland Missionary at the beginning of the 20th century, penetrating the Lisu people who lived in tribal settlements in mountainous regions of the Upper Salween.
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| Why church planting? | | Church planting, it has been observed, is the most effective form of evangelism. Some statisticians have done the sums and worked out that you get more individuals saved through church planting than from any other form of evangelism.
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| Days of Prayer and Fasting | | From the earliest days of Newfrontiers in the UK we have gathered our pastors and leaders (and as many wives as can make it) three times a year to pray and fast. Initially each event lasted three days and concluded with a meal.
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| Three Memorable Weekends | | Our extended visit to Australia has provided a great opportunity for first-hand contact with our church plants in this part of the world.
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| Arrows to the ends of the earth | | I guess I wasn’t prepared for it. Bob and Mary Cheesman had spent the previous evening with us and stayed the night in our flat. We had been reminiscing about our early years together. Bob had led the Bermondsey church and was one of the early London-base
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| Businessmen on a mission | | Last week I commented in my blog about Bones’ terrific contribution to the Johannesburg conference. One point that he made very powerfully in his teaching on Paul in Corinth included a reference to Paul working alongside Aquila and Priscilla.
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| Welcome | | My first entry comes from South Africa, where I will soon be speaking at our Cape Town Together on a Mission. Simon Pettit, whose sudden death left such a massive gap, used to host a similar conference here under the title Joy In The City
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| Reaching Muslims | | This unusual book is what you’ve always needed to help you approach Muslims in a way that takes away fear and confusion. Nick gives you step-by-step insight to help you understand their world view and the sort of approach that would be acceptable to them.
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| Invading secular space | | A thoughtful and provocative book centred in the conviction that for the church to fulfil its God-given calling it must restructure itself around the centrality of its call to mission.
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| Planting Missional Churches | | Ed Stetzer’s excellent book has the sub-title ‘Planting A Church That’s Biblically Sound and Reaching People in Culture’. He has done a fine job, both in terms of retaining Biblical soundness and also being phenomenally relevant to the culture.
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| Let The Nations Be Glad | | John Piper reminds us that mission is not the ultimate goal of the church, worship is, and that mission exists because worship doesn't.
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| The Unquenchable Flame | | If church reformation and revolution are still required and you want to play a part in world history, you would be wise to get your own copy of Mike Reeves’ book, read and digest it and help fan the unquenchable flame into an even greater blaze.
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| Planting Churches – Changing Communities | | This book will be a great encouragement to anybody pondering the possibility of starting a new church. Full of Biblically-based wisdom and practical insights, it is made more colourful by the inclusion of many testimonies from contemporary church planters
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| The Tide is Turning | | By examining the lives of Jospeh, Gideon and Nehemiah Terry Virgo inspires us afresh and shows that the tide is turning against secularism and we are increasingly seeing God's great plan being fulfilled to glorify His Son in the earth.
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