From the monthly archives:

May 2005

Teamwork that will change the world- identifying differences

May 31, 2005

In the last posts of my long running series, I argued that churches led by teams of very different people will change the world and began to discuss what teamwork that will change the world looks like.
The key point is simply this, that people differ in many ways, but that a simple but helpful [...]

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Calling all Arminian Prayers

May 30, 2005

One of the great things about the blogosphere is that you can to use David Wayne’s phrase “call out” people. Well, right now I call out all my Arminian readers out there and ask them to respond to this quote from Spurgeon. In his sermon NO. 52 “FREE-WILL A SLAVE” he [...]

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Blair is off the hook as the French vote NON

May 30, 2005

Blair is off the hook and must be breathing easier tonight. To most commentators the almost unspoken way the rest of his premiership was to play out was that he would fight and probably loose a vigorous campaign to implement the EU constitution in a referendum, then bow out gracefully making room for [...]

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Controlling Personalities in the Church

May 30, 2005

Wittenberg Gate has two posts about dominating people in the church. The first describes individuals and the second what happens to a church when it is lead by an overly-dominant person. The bible never intended for the church to be lead by one dominant individual with no accountability. This is why team [...]

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How to be a successfull blogger part 5 – a walk through a blog template cotd

May 30, 2005

I am working through my blog template, which can be downloaded at the last post in this series- How to be a successfull blogger part 4 – a walk through a blog template
So far we have spoken about the title and begun to speak of the banner. It is hard to underestimate as I [...]

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How to be a successfull blogger part 4 – a walk through a blog template

May 30, 2005

I thought I would share my blogger template with you and speak through the things you will find in it. Although this is a blogger template which could be used in blogger with minimal modification, there are tips and tricks I will share here that will work in other systems. Web design is often [...]

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Book Review: Hedges by Jerry Jenkins

May 29, 2005

The next group book review organised by Diet of bookworms is published today, this is my contribution, if you want to learn more about what other bloggers think about this book then why not pop over there.
Hedges by Jerry Jenkins is a book of practical strategies to guard your marriage. It is one man honestly [...]

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Quietness, rest and trust

May 29, 2005

Today’s McCheyne bible reading has this line in it from Isaiah 30:15 : “in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
This made me think of the post from a couple of days ago where I quoted Unvield face saying “I have had so many times of frustration in my life, getting irritated that thigns [...]

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Blogging 101: becoming a successful blogger

May 29, 2005

Some people are still finding my short series on blogging of a while back quite helpful. For example Musterion has used it in his redesign. If the interest is there, I will gladly continue: Let me know what areas of blogging mistique you would like me to shed some light on and I will do [...]

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Unveiled Face

May 28, 2005

Unveiled Face has a great post about Ecclesiastes 12 and futility also citing Romans 8, and 1 Peter 1 he says:
Wow! Only in Christ can we see two amazing truths: (1) That God himself subjected all of creation to futility, and (2) that in Christ, this futility itself is redeemed – futility becomes [...]

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It is teamwork that will change the world

May 28, 2005

In what may seem like a digression from my series on the church I now plan to spend some while speaking about teamwork.
A couple of previous posts may help to give useful background, firstly one on barriers to community, and secondly one on the one-anothers of the bible. These posts are part of [...]

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Churches lead by teams of very different people change the world

May 27, 2005

It is important to note that the churches in Acts were led by teams. This was such a crucial thing to Paul that there was an occassion when he refused to preach when a door was open to him because his team were not with him.
This point is so vital that I intend to dwell [...]

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How does the ESV compare to other versions

May 26, 2005

Eternal Perspectives in a tongue-in-cheek way accuses me of being obsessed and says that the NASB and ESV are very similar. This prompted me to choose a passage of scripture and illustrate the way different translations have translated it. I will do this in order with more literal and/or difficult English first and less [...]

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Churches who’s leaders are genuine, spirit filled and full of faith will change the world

May 26, 2005

“..he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith” Acts 11:24
A good church starts with good leaders. There simply isn’t any substitutefor a good man who is filled with the Spirit and trusts his God.
Leaders must have the gentle servant heart that Barnabus demonstrated.They must not be self-seeking. They [...]

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