Resources by Series
Coronavirus: Advice for Churches
- Church Meetings When You Can't Attend
- Responding to Coronavirus
- Taking Small Groups Online
- Prayer in a Time of Global Crisis
- Looking Up and Looking Out During the Age of Coronavirus
- FIEC Churches Serving Online
- Sung Worship and Copyright in Online Services
- 5 Reasons to Make Your Online Services Suitable for All Ages
- A Living Hope in the Face of Uncertainty
- What is God Teaching Us Through Coronavirus?
- How to Engage with Your Virtual Visitors
- Singing Through Suffering
- How to Film Yourself at Home
- Patience During Lockdown
- Leading into the New Normal (Webinar)
- Serving Church Members in Financial Hardship
- 5 Ways God is Growing a Church During Lockdown
- Leadership Through a Lengthy Lockdown (Webinar)
- Staying Safe When Church is Online
- Word and Sacrament in Lockdown (Webinar)
- How to Set Up Online Giving for Churches
- 7 Leadership Lessons from the Lawn
- Lockdown Evangelism and the Home Advantage
- Marriage During a Lengthy Lockdown (Webinar)
- Zoomed Out and Locked Down – How to be Refreshed
- Self Care and Soul Care in a Lengthy Lockdown (Webinar)
- 5 Ways to Make Progress in Lockdown Ministry
- Keeping Evangelism Central During Lockdown (Webinar)
- Christianity Explored Online: Evangelism via Zoom
- Leadership During Lockdown in Deprived Communities (Webinar)
- How to Prepare for a COVID Secure Church
- Switcher Studio - a Live Streaming Solution for Church Services
- A Note on Health and Safety: Legal Duties for Churches
- How to Assess the COVID-19 Risk in Your Church Building
- Lockdown Leadership That Cares For Women in Church & Ministry (Webinar)
- How Four Churches Reopened Their Buildings After Lockdown (or Didn't)
- Mental Health in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Christianity Explored: Online Experiences & Lessons Learnt
- Youth & Children’s Work in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Five Stages Out of Lockdown for Church Meetings
- Lessons from Lockdown (Webinar)
- How to Rest Without Going Away
- Facing the Facts on Masks at Church (Webinar)
- Wearing Face Masks at Church
- Ten Tips for Completing Your COVID-19 Risk Assessment
- Neighbour-Love in Word and Deed
- 8 Ways the Pandemic has Affected Churches
- Making the Most of a Season of Online Ministry
- Why ‘Church In Person’ is Better
- Shepherding the Flock Back to Church
- Leading in the New Normal (Webinar)
- Staying Online While Meeting In Person (Webinar)
- Remembering the ‘Can’t Comes’
- Student Ministry in Lockdown (Webinar)
- When should Christians disobey Government over Coronavirus restrictions?
- Sung Worship When You Can't Sing (Webinar)
- A Positive COVID Test at Church: Now What?
- The Challenges and Joys of a Lockdown Women’s Worker
- Lockdown Ministry in Wales (Webinar)
- Pandemic Lessons Learnt in Mississippi
- Lessons of a Lockdown Season
- Pastoring People in a Mental Health Crisis (Webinar)
- Leading Through a Time of Division (Webinar)
- Diagnosed by Covid
- Leaders Under Pressure (Webinar)
- Shepherding the 30%
- Leading the Church Without Becoming An Armchair Epidemiologist (Webinar)
- A Winter Risk Assessment Review
- The Slowness of God
- Missional Lessons from the Covid Crisis (Webinar)
- How to Engage Effectively with Government (Webinar)
- Staying Calm and Keeping Perspective: Places of Worship Closure in Scotland
- When We Disagree with Lockdown
- Responding to the Ethics of the Covid Vaccine
- Leading Volunteers Through Covid and Beyond (Webinar)
- 5 Reasons Why Zoom Prayer Meetings Might be Here to Stay
- The Chapel Channel
- The Roadmap Out of Lockdown (Implications for Churches)
- Medical Covid Update & Caring for Medics in Church (Webinar)
- How to Keep Refreshed in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Easter Evangelism in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Unlocking Scotland (Webinar)
- Evangelism After Lockdown: A Passion for Life 2022 (Webinar)
- Life After Lockdown
- Evangelism In and Out of Lockdown
- Beyond the Covid Crisis - Leading in Complexity (Webinar)
- "Lessons I Wish I'd Learned Before the Covid Crisis" (Webinar)
- Domestic Abuse in Lockdown (Webinar)
- How to Help Church Members Back into Ministry
- 11 Things to Consider When Coming Out of Lockdown
- Trauma Care After Covid (Webinar)
- Youth and Children’s Ministry After Covid (Webinar)
- Caring for the Chronic Post-Covid
- World Mission After Covid (Webinar)
- Ministry Beyond Covid (Webinar)
- Health & Safety After Lockdown
- A COVID-19 Risk Assessment Template
Evangelism for Every Believer
- Are You Ready for Evangelism?
- Declare His Glory
- How to Declare the Glory of God
- God's Glory Among the Nations
- We’re All Evangelists – Aren’t We?
- Programmes and Professionals
- Be Ready to Respond
- Evangelists and Evangelism in the New Testament
- How to Support Evangelistic Work
- Get Out of the Christian Ghetto
- Deliciously Distinctive Living
- Tasty Speaking
- Who is in Charge of Evangelism?
- Does Election Kill Evangelism?
- Gospel Intentionality
- 3 Ways to Make the Most of Every Opportunity
- Illustrating the Culture
- Anticipating the Questions
- Answer Questions Like and With Jesus
- Cultural Paradigms in Evangelism
- How Innocence/Guilt and Honour/Shame Cultures Collide
Get to Know...
- Get to Know... New City and Above Bar
- Get to Know... Lansdowne and Trinity
- Get to Know... Cornerstone and Woodgreen
- Get to Know... The Slade and Cowplain
- Get to Know... Send and Cornerstone
- Get to Know... Matthew Henry and Grace
- Get to Know Baglan and The Gate
- Get to Know... Harper and Mount Pleasant
- Get to Know... Monyhull and Calne
- Get to Know... Plains and Highfields
Growing as a Team
- Candid Conversations
- Succession Planning
- Effective Communication
- Team Time
- Are Your Meetings SMART?
- A Growing Staff Team
- First Among Equals?
- Effective Lay Leadership 1
- Effective Lay Leadership 2
- Not an Exact Science
- Developing Elders
- Developing Deacons
- Team Structures
- Action Points
- Reviews & Appraisals
- Give Your Best
In:Dependence
- What Exactly is Independency?
- Lifting Your Horizons with FIEC
- Care, Power, and Abuse in the Local Church
- When Use of Power Becomes Abuse of Power
- Women's Ministry and Depending on God
- Caring for Victims in the Local Church
- Distinctives for Women in Ministry
- Christianity and the Church in 2021 Britain
- Growing Young Disciples
- Is Complementarianism Abusive?
- On Church Websites
- Does Independency Enable Abuse?
- Seen and Not Heard? Children in Sunday Services
- World Mission and the Local Church
- Russian Invasion, the Post-Covid World, and Curling Gold
- Preventing Abuse in Local Church Leadership
- Music and Singing in the Local Church
- Praying for Ukraine, Leadership at Boeing, and John Bercow
- Training for the Harvest Field
- Training Volunteers in Youth Ministry
- Zelensky's Leadership, Rising Living Costs, and Gender Identity
- Caring for Church Musicians
- Piano Playing
- Pastoral Ministry in a Smaller Church
- Conversion Therapy Ban, Opposing War, and Public Image
- Building for the Long Term
- Planting in Smaller Communities
- The Archbishop of Canterbury, Elon Musk, and Praying for Ukraine
- On Christian Conferences
- World Mission in the 21st Century
- Roe v. Wade, the Royal Family, and 'Talking Jesus'
- Welcoming People with Learning Disabilities to Church
- Caring for Your Missionaries
- Local Churches and the Media
- Eastern European Churches, Abuse in the SBC, and the Fear of Marriage
- Keeping the Lights On
- Trust in Leadership, Social Mobility, and Lonely Students
- Caring for Autistic Children in Church
- Working with Mission Agencies
- Pulpit Politics, Accessibility & Diversity, and Women's Sport
- Women's Ministry in Smaller Churches
- Caring for Anxiety Sufferers
- Resignations, Democracy, and Cricketing Revivals
- Where Do Art and Church Meet?
- Church Ministry on Council Estates
- Medhurst Ministries
- Cost of Living Crisis, Transgender Clinics, and Climate Change
- Offering Hope to Domestic Abuse Victims
Leaders' Conference 2013
- The Power of God 1
- The Power of God 2
- The Power of God 3
- Psalm 32
- Psalm 33
- Psalm 34
- Gospel Leadership, Gospel Growth 1
- Gospel Leadership, Gospel Growth 2
- Gospel Leadership, Gospel Growth 3
- Engaging with God Together
- 1-to-1: Why all the fuss?
- Helping People Change: Changed by Faith
- Helping People Change: Changed by the Spirit
- Starting or Revitalising a Children's and Youth Work
Leaders' Conference 2015
- Titus - Our Task
- Titus - Our Goal
- Titus - Our Hope
- Titus - Our Challenge
- Leading a Disciple-Making Church 1: Making Disciples Through Preaching
- Leading a Disciple-Making Church 3: Making Disciples Through Pastoral Care
- Leading a Disciple-Making Church 2: Making Disciples Through Training
- Discipling Women 1: The Starting Point
- Discipling Women 2: The Knotty Issues
- Biblical Counselling in Discipleship 1: A Focus on the Heart
- Biblical Counselling in Discipleship 3: Speaking the Truth in Love
- Biblical Counselling in Discipleship 2: One truth, many ways to say it?
- Discipling Children and Youth 1: The Jesus Model
- Discipling Children and Youth 2: What got you here won’t get you there
- Discipling Children and Youth 3: Maintain the message, modify the method
- Grace Under Pressure: "It's too hard"
- Grace Under Pressure: "I'm too dirty"
- Grace Under Pressure: "I've failed"
- Lessons from the Life of Isaac Watts
Leaders' Conference 2016
- The Plentiful Harvest
- Engaging Evangelism (Part 1)
- Engaging Evangelism (Part 2)
- The Priority of Evangelism
- The Joy of Evangelism
- The Passion for Evangelism
- The Power for Evangelism
- Creating a Culture of Evangelism
- Equipping the Congregation for Evangelism
- Preaching Evangelistically
- How do I help women grow?
- How do I stay fresh in ministry?
- Help! I’ve been asked to give a gospel talk
- Discipleship in Hard Places
- Growing a Diverse Team in Hard Places
- Women’s Ministry in Hard Places
- Reaching Men: Planning the Race
- Reaching Men: Running the Race
- Reaching Muslims: Some Practical Help
- Reaching Muslims: Creating Gospel Communities
- Church Planting and Revitalisation
- Frontier Rather Than Fortress
- Why Evangelism is Central to a Healthy Church
- Community Evangelism
- Spurgeon the Evangelist
Leaders' Conference 2017
- The Devotional Life of the Pastor (part 1)
- The Devotional Life of the Pastor (part 2)
- Leading a Culture of Change
- Nurturing a Culture of Evangelism
- Transformed by the Word
- Transformed by Relationships
- Aliens and Strangers or Culture Makers?
- The Church, the World, and the Public Square
- Church Planting - just for the young, hip and fabulous?
- Should Every Church be Multi-Racial?
- Thabiti Anyabwile Masterclass
- Creating Capacity for Change
- Investing in the Ministry of Music
- The Old Path of Transformation
- The Neglected Path of Transformation
- The Greatest Path of Transformation
- Revelation 2:1-7
- The Reformation
- Revelation 3:7-14
- The Next Level
Leaders' Conference 2018
- Apologetics in the Local Church
- Apologetics in the Public Square
- Jesus the Game Changer
- Effective Evangelistic Courses
- Reaching Women with the Gospel
- Reaching the Elderly with the Gospel
- Evangelism: Making it Central
- Evangelism: Making it Normal
- Effective Communication: Let the Word Loose
- Effective Communication: Ensure the Word Impacts
- Don't Waste a Good Crisis
- What's New in Safeguarding?
- A Ministry of Warning
- A Ministry of Comfort
- Power for Gospel Ministry
- Prayer for Gospel Ministry
- Promises for Gospel Ministry
- Defending Against Defeater Beliefs (Part 1)
- Defending Against Defeater Beliefs (Part 2)
Leaders' Conference 2019
- Raising Leaders: Godly Elders
- Raising Leaders: Volunteers
- Raising Leaders: Diverse Backgrounds
- Raising Leaders: Risk & Failure
- Developing Women’s Ministry in the Local Church
- Developing Youth and Children’s Leaders
- Equipping Leaders to Lead Teams
- Leading Leaders: Staff Teams
- Women's Workers in the Local Church
- Leading Your Church in Evangelism
- On Sermon Preparation and Delivery
- Being a Ministry Wife
- Emotional Intelligence in Leaders
- Sexual Passions, Purity and the Pitfalls of Leadership
- Elders & Trustees: How to make it work
- Marriage, Ministry & Family Life under the Spotlight
- Raising Titus 2 Women
- Leadership & Character
- Leadership & Skillset
- The Nature of Gospel Leadership
- The Reality of Gospel Leadership
- Wisdom All Church Leaders Need
- An Interview with Mark Dever
Leadership in Lockdown
- Leading into the New Normal (Webinar)
- Leadership Through a Lengthy Lockdown (Webinar)
- Word and Sacrament in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Marriage During a Lengthy Lockdown (Webinar)
- Self Care and Soul Care in a Lengthy Lockdown (Webinar)
- Keeping Evangelism Central During Lockdown (Webinar)
- Leadership During Lockdown in Deprived Communities (Webinar)
- Lockdown Leadership That Cares For Women in Church & Ministry (Webinar)
- Mental Health in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Youth & Children’s Work in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Lessons from Lockdown (Webinar)
- Facing the Facts on Masks at Church (Webinar)
- Leading in the New Normal (Webinar)
- Staying Online While Meeting In Person (Webinar)
- Student Ministry in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Sung Worship When You Can't Sing (Webinar)
- Lockdown Ministry in Wales (Webinar)
- Pastoring People in a Mental Health Crisis (Webinar)
- Leading Through a Time of Division (Webinar)
- Leaders Under Pressure (Webinar)
- Leading the Church Without Becoming An Armchair Epidemiologist (Webinar)
- Missional Lessons from the Covid Crisis (Webinar)
- How to Engage Effectively with Government (Webinar)
- Not So Social Media (Webinar)
- Leading Volunteers Through Covid and Beyond (Webinar)
- Caring for Families and Children in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Medical Covid Update & Caring for Medics in Church (Webinar)
- How to Keep Refreshed in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Easter Evangelism in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Unlocking Scotland (Webinar)
- Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ (Webinar)
- Evangelism After Lockdown: A Passion for Life 2022 (Webinar)
- Beyond the Covid Crisis - Leading in Complexity (Webinar)
- "Lessons I Wish I'd Learned Before the Covid Crisis" (Webinar)
- Covid and Religious Consciousness (Webinar)
- Domestic Abuse in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Race and the Church & Welcoming Hong Kong Migrants (Webinar)
- Is it Worth Serving the Lord? (Webinar)
- Trauma Care After Covid (Webinar)
- Faith in Later Life (Webinar)
- Youth and Children’s Ministry After Covid (Webinar)
- Being the Bad Guys (Webinar)
- World Mission After Covid (Webinar)
- Ministry Beyond Covid (Webinar)
Primer
- Primer 01: True to His Word
- Primer 02: How Far We Fell
- The Essence of Sin
- Primer 03: True to Form
- Finding Our Feet in Shifting Sands
- Primer 04: A Place to Stand
- Out with the Old?
- Primer 05: Coming Soon
- Gender Identity Today
- Primer 06: Newness of Life
- Primer 07: Show & Tell
- Primer 08: How Great a Being
- Primer 09: All Being Equal
- Primer 10: This World with Devils Filled
- Primer 11: A Little Lower than the Angels
Spirit-Led, Relational Leadership
- Fruitful 10: Self-control
- Fruitful 9: Gentleness
- Fruitful 8: Faithfulness
- Fruitful 7: Goodness
- Fruitful 6: Kindness
- Fruitful 5: Forbearance
- Fruitful 4: Peace
- Fruitful 3: Joy
- Fruitful 2: Love
- Fruitful 1: Introduction
- Leadership Blind Spots : Women
- Leadership Blind Spots: Ethnic Minorities
- Spirit-Led, Relational Leadership
One-offs
- The Freedoms of Independency
- Releasing Women for Ministry
- Great Gain
- A Prayed-For Plant
- Small Changes for a Big Difference
- Who was Edward J Poole-Connor?
- Insuring Your Church
- The Problem with Hymns
- 6 Ways to Keep Church Seven Days a Week
- The Church's Call in Challenging Times
- Church in a Box (Lessons for Meeting in a Rented Building)
- Friendship Lessons from the Royal Navy
- Making Faith Magnetic (Book Review)
- 5 Lessons for Churches Hosting Refugees
- Three Books to Read on Leadership in 2022
- The Nearly Impossible Task
- Powerful Leaders? (Book Review)
- Leading the Church in Response to Ukraine
- The Least, the Last, and the Lost (Book Review)
- Podcasts for Church Leaders (2022 Edition)
- Time Well Spent (Book Review)
- Why You Should Mix Up your Small Groups (and How to Do It)
- How to Spot a Healthy Church
- Serving in a Smaller Church
- The Answer to the Loneliness Epidemic
- How to Receive Criticism and Respond Well
- Gospel Work in Extraordinary Times (Annual Review 2020/21)
- In Praise of Smaller Churches
- Brave by Faith (Book Review)
- Finding My Father (Book Review)
- Getting Out of a Church Rut
- How to Welcome Students into Your Church Family
- The 5 Cs of Church Revitalisation
- Speaking Jesus at Reading Festival
- Pursuing Biblical Generosity
- Servant-Hearted Team Meetings
- Reach, Views, and Clicks (How to Interpret Video and Social Media Data)
- High-Quality Team-Based Decision Making
- The Habit of Time Management
- Software for Effective Ministry
- How Can Churches Care for Creation?
- Users, Sessions, Pageviews (How to Interpret Website Data)
- Vital Questions about the Character of Leaders
- God of All Things (Book Review)
- Creation Care (Book Review)
- 14 Years of Faith and God’s Provision in Broadstone
- Mortgages, Savings, and Insurance for the Kingdom
- How to Lead Your Church in World Mission
- Conversion Therapy: A Biblical Response
- Rest and Renewal: Sabbaticals for Pastors
- Remember: the Lord Remembers
- What is Independent Church Ministry?
- From a Discipline to a Delight
- Being the Bad Guys (Book Review)
- Gentle Leaders
- If Only (Book Review)
- World Mission for Small Groups
- Assurance, Hope, and Boasting at Easter
- Finding the Right Hills to Die On (Book Review)
- Turning Online Viewers into Jesus Followers
- Pray for Your Pastor’s Wife
- Affirming Women in Ministry
- Help! I’m Married to my Pastor (Book Review)
- 8 Ways to Support Your Church Treasurer
- The Easter Playlist
- Putting Easter On Trial (Who Moved the Stone?)
- Gifts for Visiting Preachers (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
- Christmas Dinners Needing a Home
- Certainty in Uncertain Times
- Be a Gospel Optimist in 2021
- More Than a Return to Normal
- 2019-2020: Unexpected yet Encouraging (Annual Review)
- Digital is a New Chapter in a 2,000-Year-Old Mission
- The King Has Arrived (Album Review)
- How an App Can Help Your Church Pray
- Fixated (Book Review)
- God's Faithfulness to FIEC in the Time of Coronavirus - AGM 2019/20
- What Should You Pay Your Pastor?
- Behind the Wire: Remembrance Sunday
- Six Ways to Mark Reformation Day in Your Church
- How to Care for Your Women’s Worker in Lockdown
- Held (Book Review)
- Calling Your Pastor
- A Daily Training Regime
- Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation for Every Woman (Book Review)
- Deeper Still (Book Review)
- Caring For Your Pastor
- Helping the Suffering (Book Review)
- Preachers: Learn to Listen Well
- Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women (Book Review)
- Race and the Evangelical Church
- The Generosity Project: Joyful Giving for the Sake of the Gospel
- The Envy of Eve (Book Review)
- A Closer Look in The Mirror (and the Light)
- A Fruitless Ministry?
- A Marriage Made in Heaven: Stockwell Baptist Church
- Time for Every Thing? (Book Review)
- The Luxury of Learning Biblical Languages Online
- 3 Ways for Churches to Creatively Use Social Media
- Unexceptional (Book Review)
- Tax Returns as a Christian Witness
- 7 Key Attributes of a Music Team Member
- The Pastoral Support Team
- Lessons in Common Grace
- Growing Your Music Team
- Music for Smaller Churches
- Introducing New Songs to Your Church
- Ministry Amongst Britain’s Poorest
- The Creaking on the Stairs (Book Review)
- He Made His Dwelling Amongst Us
- Plugged In (Book Review)
- Spreading a Passion for Jesus
- Hidden Evil (Book Review)
- Church Planting: the next wave?
- God’s Design for Women (Book Review)
- A Harvest of Hope?
- Called to the Mountains
- Giving Thanks
- Remembrance Hymn
- Family Fun with a Gospel Purpose
- A Call to Prayer
- Growth from Transatlantic Partnership
- A Church Weekend with a Difference
- Leading All-Age Services
- Ministry in Wales
- Another Learning Experience
- Music Without Musicians
- Moving Forwards in Faith
- What kind of church would I like to belong to?
- Inner City Planting
- A Pastoral Podcast
- From Revitalisation to Planting
- Evangelism in a Skeptical World (Book Review)
- Prayers led to Plant
- Premises Pledges Smash Target
- Taking the Gospel to Sportspeople
- Revitalisation: Encouragements, Challenges & Pitfalls
- Training Women: A Priority for Pastors
- Honouring God’s Servants
- Pruning Enables Growth
- Rethinking Sundays
- Jesus in the Middle
- Pray for the World
- Barbie Girl, Barbie World
- Changing Times
- Bringing Church to the Community
- How to Avoid Lazy Praying
- Should Your Church Become a CIO?
- Property Transactions
- Ministry Lessons from a Comedy Duo
- The Whole Counsel of God
- Speaking of Death
- Rediscovering Spurgeon’s Treasure
- World Mission for Sunday Schools
- Prioritising “Together Prayer”
- Copyright and Your Church
- Vivid Imagery
- Why Read One-to-One?
- Training Women to use their Gifts
- First Aid
- Who’s to blame?
- Five Ways to Spend a Legacy
- Embedded in our World?
- Making up for Lost Time
- Ministry Discouragement
- Moving the Family
- Staying Safe Online
- Knowing Our Times
- Gap Theory v2.0
- Data Protection Law and Your Church
- Pastoral Contentment
- But What Do They Hear?
- God and the Transgender Debate (Book Review)
- Effective Facebook Advertising
- What do they really think?
- Church Growth
- Speak Up
- Fire Safety
- Accidental Church Planters
- What is Complementarianism?
- Using Commentaries in Preaching
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations
- 12 Things to Look For When Calling a Pastor
- Developing Women's Ministry in Your Church
- What did the Archbishop say about the Apostle?
- Lost in Translation?
- Why are we Complementarian?