One-offs

Why are we Complementarian?
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John Stevens

If FIEC doesn't take a stand on spiritual gifts or baptism, why do we make a fuss about the role of men and women in the church?

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Lost in Translation?
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David Shaw

“Can we use the NEW New International Version?” Here's some helpful background on the 2011 NIV.

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What did the Archbishop say about the Apostle?
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David Shaw

Some reflections on Romans 16 and women in ministry.

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12 Things to Look For When Calling a Pastor
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Trevor Archer, Paul Mallard

What characteristics should a church look for in a man they want to call as pastor?

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Charitable Incorporated Organisations
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Edward Connor Solicitors

Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) have become a very popular governance structure for independent churches.

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Using Commentaries in Preaching
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John Stevens

Here's one preacher's wisdom about the way he uses commentaries in his preaching preparation.

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What is Complementarianism?
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Sarah Allen

As a Fellowship, we are keen to encourage the biblical ministry of women in our churches. So what does the Bible teach about women’s roles?

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Fire Safety
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Simon Hewitt

All church buildings can be susceptible to fire. Here's how to make sure you are managing the risks.

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Speak Up
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Adrian Reynolds

Leading public prayers in a Sunday service doesn’t come as naturally to us as it used to. Here are five ways we can think about leading in prayer.

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What do they really think?
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Alan McKnight

How much do you know about the people who join you every Sunday? The leaders at Harper Church came up with a solution to hear everyone’s views.

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Effective Facebook Advertising
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Mike Judge

Social media advertising is a simple, cost-effective way of targeting invites to your church events and evangelism activities.

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God and the Transgender Debate (Book Review)
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David Shaw

What does the Bible actually say about gender identity? And how can we be truthful and sensitive as we pastor and teach?

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But What Do They Hear?
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Adrian Reynolds

Preachers can spend weeks immersed in passages of Scripture, but it's important to put yourself in the listeners’ shoes as you prepare.

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Pastoral Contentment
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Adrian Reynolds

How can you match godly contentment with a desire to see the gospel take hold and grow?

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Data Protection Law and Your Church
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Edward Connor Solicitors

From May 2018 it became a legal requirement for every church to conform to the General Data Protection Regulation. Find out what the entails.

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Gap Theory v2.0
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Adrian Reynolds

What do people really understand when they read our material? Here's a plea for rethinking some of our evangelistic communication.

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Knowing Our Times
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John Stevens

In this short book, John Stevens helps us to interpret the times we are living in – both inside and outside the church.

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Staying Safe Online
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Linda Allcock

How can we help our children to navigate the digital world when they often know more about it than we do?

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Moving the Family
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Carolyn Lacey

One of the realities of ministry is that God’s call might move you to pastures new. What effect can such a calling can have on your family?

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Ministry Discouragement
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Adrian Reynolds

How should we deal with discouragement in ministry? Here’s some advice from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians.

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Making up for Lost Time
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Reading the Bible one-to-one with another Christian was never part of the job description during ministry. Here's why I would recommend it now.

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Embedded in our World?
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Carl Chambers

Is there a fundamental problem in the way we seek to engage with people who aren’t Christians?

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Five Ways to Spend a Legacy
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Adrian Reynolds

If you unexpectedly received some money for your church, what would you do with it? Here are a few different ways you could invest it for the Kingdom.

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Who’s to blame?
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Adrian Reynolds

In a culture that doesn’t like to take responsibility, our gospel preaching needs to constantly address the heart.

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First Aid
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Edward Connor Solicitors

What do churches need to think about when it comes to first aid requirements on a Sunday and for regular clubs and church events?

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Training Women to use their Gifts
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Linda Allcock

How does a complementarian perspective affect what Biblical women’s ministry can look like in our churches?

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Why Read One-to-One?
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Johnny Prime

Reading the Bible with others, one-to-one, is a vital part of pastoral ministry. Find out why and get some practical advice to help you along.

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Vivid Imagery
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Adrian Reynolds

Many Bible stories contain vivid imagery, so how can preachers and teachers wrestle communicate these colourful pictures in their ministry?

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Copyright and Your Church
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Edward Connor Solicitors

If you're using images, film or music in your church activities or advertising then you need to make sure you're not infringing copyright law.

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Prioritising “Together Prayer”
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Johnny Prime

This article is a “how to” guide for holding a prayer meeting in your church.

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World Mission for Sunday Schools
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Janet Brown

Two church members in Suffolk have been trialling their new young-people’s world mission course at an FIEC church.

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Rediscovering Spurgeon’s Treasure
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Adrian Reynolds

Adrian Reynolds outlines Spurgeon’s sermon on ‘progress’ from ‘An All Round Ministry’. It's a subject close to Adrian’s own heart.

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Speaking of Death
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Linda Allcock

Drawing on recent films, books and a radio play, Linda Allcock highlights a growing openness to talk about death in our culture.

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The Whole Counsel of God
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Oli Tucker

Which parts of Scripture are most popular with Bible-preaching churches? Oli Tucker has spent some time exploring selection bias by preachers.

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Ministry Lessons from a Comedy Duo
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Adrian Reynolds

Some valuable ministry lessons highlighted in a recent film about one of the greatest entertainment double acts of all time.

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Property Transactions
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Edward Connor Solicitors

What do you need to think about when your church is looking to buy or sell property?

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Should Your Church Become a CIO?
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Edward Connor Solicitors

What are the advantages of your church becoming a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)? And how would you go about making the change?

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How to Avoid Lazy Praying
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Adrian Reynolds

How do we avoid laziness when it comes to our public and private prayer life? Here are five practical guidelines.

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Bringing Church to the Community
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Debbie Hurdle

Send Evangelical Church is in a semi-rural village near Guildford in Surrey. What does evangelism look like in a large village setting like this?

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Changing Times
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Elinor Magowan

Elinor Magowan reflects on the assurances we’re given by God when we experience changing seasons in our own lives.

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Barbie Girl, Barbie World
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Linda Allcock

The Bible teaches us about the importance of godly women as role models. But society usually peddles a different type of role model.

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Pray for the World
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Nathan Weston

There are sound biblical reasons why we should be praying publicly for the world.

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Jesus in the Middle
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Johnny Prime

What reassurances does the horrific crucifixion of Christ give to all believers? Johnny Prime helps us to reflect on the Easter story.

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Rethinking Sundays
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Rachel Dalby

While some churches struggle to maintain attendance levels, an FIEC church in Hampshire has been experiencing a different kind of issue.

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Pruning Enables Growth
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Rachel Dalby

When change-management expert Kevin Cowdrey arrived to pastor a Lincolnshire church in 2016, he found it on ‘life-support’.

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Honouring God’s Servants
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Derek Prime

How do we properly honour and support our pastors? Derek Prime offers some advice gleaned from more than 50 years in pastoral ministry.

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Training Women: A Priority for Pastors
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Johnny Prime

The elders at Christ Church Haywards Heath are seeking to provide ministry training for women in the church. Johnny Prime finds out what's involved.

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Revitalisation: Costly but Vital
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Mark Herbert

True partnership between churches is costly. It can involve ‘giving away’ valuable time, people and resources. So why bother?

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Taking the Gospel to Sportspeople
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Jonny Reid

Jonny Reid explains how his church in Oxfordshire is engaging with sportspeople of all ages this summer.

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Premises Pledges Smash Target
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John Douglas

A little over a year after launching as a new church, Hope City Church Edinburgh were looking for a new meeting place. This is their story.

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Prayers led to Plant
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Karen O’Byrne

Almost two years ago, two groups of Christians agreed that something was missing in Cornwall's largest town.

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Evangelism in a Skeptical World (Book Review)
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Adrian Reynolds

Adrian Reynolds reviews a book on evangelism which goes one better than “yep, I could do that.”

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From Revitalisation to Planting
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Rachel Dalby

Beginning to see gospel fruit from its three years of revitalisation, Calvary Baptist Church in Spalding is now looking to plant.

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A Pastoral Podcast
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Phil Topham

Graham Nicholls explains to Phil Topham why Christ Church Haywards Heath started a weekly podcast called 'Ordinary'.

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Inner City Planting
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Sam Gibb

Sam Gibb tells the story of Hope Church Vauxhall, a church plant on an inner-city housing estate in England’s capital.

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What kind of church would I like to belong to?
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Trevor Archer

Trevor Archer offers six answers to the question – based on a weekend away with an eldership team.

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Moving Forwards in Faith
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Hannah Langley

Magdalen Road Church have left their home of 140 years and moved into a new building which the church hopes to call home for generations to come.

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Music Without Musicians
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Adrian Reynolds

How do you resource a church with sung worship when there are very few (or no) musicians? Here's one tool that offers a solution.

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Another Learning Experience
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Dave Williams

Are you one of the thousands of teenagers heading to University this year? If so, how will you decide which church to be part of?

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Leading All-Age Services
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Adrian Reynolds

How can you plan good all-age services where the whole congregation benefits? Here are five pointers.

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A Church Weekend with a Difference
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Pete Greasley

Would your church join with others for a weekend away? Christchurch in Newport did, and is now celebrating stronger links with five FIEC churches.

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Growth from Transatlantic Partnership
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Daphney Byrd

A church on a deprived housing estate is increasing its community impact with the help of American missionaries.

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A Call to Prayer
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Mark Howson

As the political turmoil in our nation continues, how should we, as evangelical Christians, respond?

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Family Fun with a Gospel Purpose
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Jane Beckett

Woodgreen Church relocated to be at the heart of a huge new housing estate. Here's an insight into the planning behind their annual Family Fun Day.

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Remembrance Hymn
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Colin Webster

A piano score and lyric video of a song that was written for Remembrance Sunday services has been published for use in your church's commemorations.

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Giving Thanks
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Elinor Magowan

It’s important to give thanks and avoid grumbling as we serve Christ. But how can we always be thankful in our work and ministry?

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Called to the Mountains
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Kenny Rogan

Swapping the bright lights of the city for a life in the mountains wasn’t Kenny Rogan’s dream, so why move from London to the Scottish Highlands?

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A Harvest of Hope?
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Anne Henwood

Environmental issues are receiving a great deal of media coverage at the moment. But as Christians, to what extent ought we be caring for the planet?

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God’s Design for Women (Book Review)
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Elinor Magowan

New challenges call for thoughtful and practical ways forward. A revised edition of 'God’s Design for Women' is a book that offers real hope.

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Church Planting: the next wave?
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Andy Paterson

How do we reach the vast numbers of towns and villages across the country that are not large enough to sustain a church plant?

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Hidden Evil (Book Review)
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Johnny Prime, Elinor Magowan

The problem of domestic abuse is often not dealt with well in churches. This book by Eryl Davies tackles the subject head-on.

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Spreading a Passion for Jesus
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Phil Topham

In mid-November, Highfields Church in Cardiff was the venue for BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship. So what was it like to be featured on the radio?

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Plugged In (Book Review)
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Caroline Davies

Dan Strange’s latest book helps us to think about our secular media consumption.

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He Made His Dwelling Amongst Us
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John Stevens

A Christmas reflection on the Incarnation.

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The Creaking on the Stairs (Book Review)
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Elisabeth Smyth

Mez McConnell's latest book draws from his own story of childhood abuse and the grace of God.

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Introducing New Songs to Your Church
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Colin Webster

Some ideas and tips for learning new songs as a congregation.

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Music for Smaller Churches
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Colin Webster

It’s good to sing together as a church, but how do you do that with limited musical resources?

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Growing Your Music Team
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Colin Webster

Some practical ideas of gathering and recruiting people to your church’s Music Team.

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Lessons in Common Grace
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Ray Evans

How do we balance the desire for biblical church leadership with wisdom from the world?

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The Pastoral Support Team
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Joel Murray

A team of experienced pastors and elders has been created to support FIEC churches going through times of trouble.

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7 Key Attributes of a Music Team Member
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Colin Webster

Some thoughtful checks to help you decide if a musician is right for your church’s Music Team.

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Tax Returns as a Christian Witness
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Adrian Reynolds

At the end of the tax year, be sure to make yourself aware of income tax rules for those who are ‘ministers of religion’.

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Unexceptional (Book Review)
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Caroline Davies

Seven stories, collated by Sharon Dickens, show how ‘unexceptional’ women can do extraordinary things when empowered by God.

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3 Ways for Churches to Creatively Use Social Media
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Joel Murray

Creative ways for churches to use social media as a powerful opportunity to reach out and foster community

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The Luxury of Learning Biblical Languages Online
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Toby Martin

BibleMesh Biblical Languages offers a flexible and accessible way to learn Greek and Hebrew through online courses.

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Time for Every Thing? (Book Review)
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Carrie Rimes

Matt Fuller explores how to be busy without feeling burdened, and how to use our time wisely.

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A Marriage Made in Heaven: Stockwell Baptist Church
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Trevor Archer

The story of how two inner-city London churches with different needs were brought together in a great answer to prayer.

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A Fruitless Ministry?
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Adrian Reynolds

All church leaders wrestle with gospel fruitlessness from time to time. How should we interrogate our barrenness in a godly and helpful way?

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A Closer Look in The Mirror (and the Light)
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Adrian Reynolds

Some thoughts and lessons for church leaders to take from the long-awaited conclusion to the Wolf Hall trilogy of novels.

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The Envy of Eve (Book Review)
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Elinor Magowan

Melissa Kruger offers insight and challenge for Christians looking for contentment in a covetous world.

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The Generosity Project: Joyful Giving for the Sake of the Gospel
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Joel Murray

This new resource uses video, real stories, and God’s word to help Christians reflect deeply on generosity.

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Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women (Book Review)
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Ele Hawkins

A book that shows how women are “not incidental characters but key figures in the unfolding of God’s plans”.

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Preachers: Learn to Listen Well
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Adrian Reynolds

Listening to other people’s preaching can be a difficult task; we need to fight to benefit from the teaching of others rather than critique it.

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