Resources by Theme
Book Reviews
- God and the Transgender Debate (Book Review)
- Evangelism in a Skeptical World (Book Review)
- God’s Design for Women (Book Review)
- Hidden Evil (Book Review)
- Plugged In (Book Review)
- The Creaking on the Stairs (Book Review)
- Unexceptional (Book Review)
- Time for Every Thing? (Book Review)
- The Envy of Eve (Book Review)
- Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women (Book Review)
- Helping the Suffering (Book Review)
- Deeper Still (Book Review)
- Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation for Every Woman (Book Review)
- Held (Book Review)
- Fixated (Book Review)
- Help! I’m Married to my Pastor (Book Review)
- Finding the Right Hills to Die On (Book Review)
- If Only (Book Review)
- Being the Bad Guys (Book Review)
- Creation Care (Book Review)
- God of All Things (Book Review)
- Finding My Father (Book Review)
- Brave by Faith (Book Review)
- Time Well Spent (Book Review)
- The Least, the Last, and the Lost (Book Review)
- Powerful Leaders? (Book Review)
- Three Books to Read on Leadership in 2022
- Making Faith Magnetic (Book Review)
- Leaders Who Follow (Book Review)
- Embracing Complementarianism (Book Review)
- Unconventional (Book Review)
- Busy (Book Review)
- Priscilla, Where Are You? (Book Review)
- Refreshed (Book Review)
- Road Map to Jesus (Book Review)
- Caring for Widows (Book Review)
- Raising Confident Kids (Book Review)
- God’s Big Promises Bible Storybook (Book Review)
Children & Youth
- Starting or Revitalising a Children's and Youth Work
- 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
- Staying Safe Online
- Moving the Family
- World Mission for Sunday Schools
- Leading All-Age Services
- Developing Youth and Children’s Leaders
- 5 Reasons to Make Your Online Services Suitable for All Ages
- Staying Safe When Church is Online
- Growing Young Disciples
- Seen and Not Heard? Children in Sunday Services
- Training Volunteers in Youth Ministry
- Reaching Parents Through Toddler Groups
- Why Send Your Kids to Summer Camps?
- Community Youth Work
- An Unashamedly Christian Toddler Group
- Raising Confident Kids (Book Review)
- God’s Big Promises Bible Storybook (Book Review)
Church Planting
- Church Planting and Revitalisation
- Accidental Church Planters
- Church Planting - just for the young, hip and fabulous?
- Prayers led to Plant
- Called to the Mountains
- Church Planting: the next wave?
- Ministry Amongst Britain’s Poorest
- Planting in Smaller Communities
- A Prayed-For Plant
- When Church Plants Don't Work Out
- Church Merger in Action
- Working Together for the Gospel in Liverpool
- Learning from New London Churches
- Church Plants Working Together
- When It Doesn't Work Out
- A Gospel-Hearted Love for Smaller Churches
- Meeting the Gospel Need in Scotland
Church Stories
- Accidental Church Planters
- What do they really think?
- Bringing Church to the Community
- Rethinking Sundays
- Training Women: A Priority for Pastors
- Taking the Gospel to Sportspeople
- Premises Pledges Smash Target
- Prayers led to Plant
- A Pastoral Podcast
- Inner City Planting
- Moving Forwards in Faith
- A Church Weekend with a Difference
- Growth from Transatlantic Partnership
- Family Fun with a Gospel Purpose
- Called to the Mountains
- A Harvest of Hope?
- Spreading a Passion for Jesus
- Ministry Amongst Britain’s Poorest
- A Marriage Made in Heaven: Stockwell Baptist Church
- 5 Ways God is Growing a Church During Lockdown
- Christianity Explored: Online Experiences & Lessons Learnt
- A Positive COVID Test at Church: Now What?
- Christmas Dinners Needing a Home
- The Chapel Channel
- 14 Years of Faith and God’s Provision in Broadstone
- Pursuing Biblical Generosity
- Speaking Jesus at Reading Festival
- The 5 Cs of Church Revitalisation
- Building for the Long Term
- Planting in Smaller Communities
- Church in a Box (Lessons for Meeting in a Rented Building)
- A Prayed-For Plant
- Gospel Partnerships in Practice
- Reaching Your Community in the Summer
- Reaching Parents Through Toddler Groups
- A New Building for a Cheshire Church
- Church Merger in Action
- Working Together for the Gospel in Liverpool
- A Gospel Asset for the Next Generation
- An Unashamedly Christian Toddler Group
- When It Doesn't Work Out
- Buying Too Small
- The High Street Bible Giveaway
- When the Nations Come to Your Door
- Discipling Women in Church Life
- Church in a Weekend
- A Gospel-Hearted Love for Smaller Churches
- Local Mission, Scattered Church
Elders, Deacons & Teams
- Growing a Diverse Team in Hard Places
- Candid Conversations
- Succession Planning
- Effective Communication
- Team Time
- From Rotas to Teams
- Leading a Team
- Are Your Meetings SMART?
- A Growing Staff Team
- First Among Equals?
- Effective Lay Leadership 1
- The Grid
- Effective Lay Leadership 2
- Developing Elders
- Developing Deacons
- Team Structures
- Raising Leaders: Godly Elders
- Raising Leaders: Volunteers
- Raising Leaders: Diverse Backgrounds
- Equipping Leaders to Lead Teams
- Leading Leaders: Staff Teams
- Elders & Trustees: How to make it work
- Action Points
- Reviews & Appraisals
- Caring For Your Pastor
- Calling Your Pastor
- Making Difficult Decisions
- Rest and Renewal: Sabbaticals for Pastors
- Raising Lay Leaders
Evangelism & Apologetics
- Dependent on God's Heart for the Lost
- 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
- Help! I’ve been asked to give a gospel talk
- Reaching Men: Planning the Race
- Reaching Men: Running the Race
- Reaching Muslims: Some Practical Help
- Reaching Muslims: Creating Gospel Communities
- Frontier Rather Than Fortress
- Why Evangelism is Central to a Healthy Church
- Community Evangelism
- Spurgeon the Evangelist
- Gospel Momentum
- The Christian Bubble
- Nurturing a Culture of Evangelism
- The Church, the World, and the Public Square
- Evangelistic Energy
- Gap Theory v2.0
- Knowing Our Times
- Embedded in our World?
- Primer 07: Show & Tell
- 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
- Don't Waste a Good Crisis
- Defending Against Defeater Beliefs (Part 1)
- Defending Against Defeater Beliefs (Part 2)
- Speaking of Death
- Evangelism in 2019
- Storytelling and Evangelism
- Using Evangelistic Courses
- Evangelistic Momentum 1: Looking Carefully
- Evangelistic Momentum 2: Overwhelming Need
- Evangelistic Momentum 3: Contemporary Morality
- Taking the Gospel to Sportspeople
- Evangelistic Momentum 4: Practical Steps
- Evangelistic Momentum 5: The Example of Acts 16
- Evangelism in a Skeptical World (Book Review)
- Ministry in Wales
- Leading Your Church in Evangelism
- Looking Up and Looking Out During the Age of Coronavirus
- Lockdown Evangelism and the Home Advantage
- Christianity Explored Online: Evangelism via Zoom
- Christianity Explored: Online Experiences & Lessons Learnt
- Making the Most of a Season of Online Ministry
- Digital is a New Chapter in a 2,000-Year-Old Mission
- Putting Easter On Trial (Who Moved the Stone?)
- 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
- Evangelism In and Out of Lockdown
- 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
- Speaking Jesus at Reading Festival
- Answer Questions Like and With Jesus
- Cultural Paradigms in Evangelism
- How Innocence/Guilt and Honour/Shame Cultures Collide
- The Nearly Impossible Task
- Reaching Your Community in the Summer
- Make Much of Jesus
- Community Youth Work
- Outreach to Older People
- Word-Centred Relational Evangelism
- An Even Playing Field to Share the Bible
Practical Advice
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations
- Fire Safety
- Effective Facebook Advertising
- Data Protection Law and Your Church
- Creating Capacity for Change
- First Aid
- Copyright and Your Church
- What's New in Safeguarding?
- Property Transactions
- Should Your Church Become a CIO?
- Elders & Trustees: How to make it work
- Church Meetings When You Can't Attend
- Tax Returns as a Christian Witness
- Taking Small Groups Online
- Sung Worship and Copyright in Online Services
- How to Set Up Online Giving for Churches
- What Should You Pay Your Pastor?
- Gifts for Visiting Preachers (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
- 8 Ways to Support Your Church Treasurer
- Rest and Renewal: Sabbaticals for Pastors
- Mortgages, Savings, and Insurance for the Kingdom
- Software for Effective Ministry
- Reach, Views, and Clicks (How to Interpret Video and Social Media Data)
- Insuring Your Church
- Do Churches Need a Complaints Policy?
- “The Law is an Ass!” or is it, in Fact, an Asset to Churches?
- Who Should Be the Church Treasurer?
- When Dry Law Lives
Prayer
- Dependent on Prayer
- Speak Up
- Intentional Prayers
- Prioritising “Together Prayer”
- Prayer for Gospel Ministry
- Communication 101: The Place of Prayer
- How to Avoid Lazy Praying
- Pray for the World
- A Call to Prayer
- Prayer in a Time of Global Crisis
- How an App Can Help Your Church Pray
- 5 Reasons Why Zoom Prayer Meetings Might be Here to Stay
- How to Pray for One Hundred
Preaching
- Leading a Disciple-Making Church 1: Making Disciples Through Preaching
- To Fly to Serve
- Using Commentaries in Preaching
- Preaching Evangelistically
- But What Do They Hear?
- Quality Teaching
- Stand Up and Deliver
- Vivid Imagery
- Effective Communication: Let the Word Loose
- Effective Communication: Ensure the Word Impacts
- Rediscovering Spurgeon’s Treasure
- Communication 101: Preaching the Passage
- The Whole Counsel of God
- Communication 101: Making it Personal
- Communication 101: Loving Your Listeners
- Communication 101: Mind Your Language
- Communication 101: The Place of Prayer
- Communication 101: What’s Getting in the Way?
- On Sermon Preparation and Delivery
- Preachers: Learn to Listen Well
- Know Your Flock Before You Preach
Publications
- On Being a Servant of God
- Primer 01: True to His Word
- Why Free Church Ministry?
- The Call
- To Fly to Serve
- Primer 02: How Far We Fell
- Church Leadership
- The Joy of Service
- Glorious Union
- Primer 03: True to Form
- Primer 04: A Place to Stand
- Primer 05: Coming Soon
- Knowing Our Times
- Primer 06: Newness of Life
- The Grid
- Primer 07: Show & Tell
- Primer 08: How Great a Being
- Primer 09: All Being Equal
- Primer 10: This World with Devils Filled
- Caring For Your Pastor
- Calling Your Pastor
Revitalisation
- Church Planting and Revitalisation
- Why Evangelism is Central to a Healthy Church
- Revitalisation: Encouragements, Challenges & Pitfalls
- A Marriage Made in Heaven: Stockwell Baptist Church
- The 5 Cs of Church Revitalisation
- Confessions of a Moderator
- Church Merger in Action
- Working Together for the Gospel in Liverpool
- A Gospel-Hearted Love for Smaller Churches
- Meeting the Gospel Need in Scotland
Singing & Services
- Engaging with God Together
- Speak Up
- Investing in the Ministry of Music
- Music Without Musicians
- Leading All-Age Services
- Remembrance Hymn
- Introducing New Songs to Your Church
- Music for Smaller Churches
- Growing Your Music Team
- 7 Key Attributes of a Music Team Member
- Church Meetings When You Can't Attend
- Sung Worship and Copyright in Online Services
- 5 Reasons to Make Your Online Services Suitable for All Ages
- How to Engage with Your Virtual Visitors
- Singing Through Suffering
- How to Film Yourself at Home
- Switcher Studio - a Live Streaming Solution for Church Services
- Five Stages Out of Lockdown for Church Meetings
- Making the Most of a Season of Online Ministry
- Why ‘Church In Person’ is Better
- Six Ways to Mark Reformation Day in Your Church
- Behind the Wire: Remembrance Sunday
- Digital is a New Chapter in a 2,000-Year-Old Mission
- The Easter Playlist
- Turning Online Viewers into Jesus Followers
- Solving the ‘80% Full Problem'
- Moving to Multiple Services
- Seen and Not Heard? Children in Sunday Services
- Music and Singing in the Local Church
- Caring for Church Musicians
- Piano Playing
- The Problem with Hymns
- Sing a New (Centenary) Song
- Leading Worship with a Guitar
- Helping People Sing Well
Training
- Leading a Disciple-Making Church 2: Making Disciples Through Training
- The Call
- Servants of God
- Servants of the Gospel
- Servants of the Church
- Succession Planning
- What They Didn't Teach You
- Progress #1
- Progress #2
- Psalm 139
- The Grid
- Five Ways to Spend a Legacy
- Training Women to use their Gifts
- Raising Leaders: Risk & Failure
- Raising Titus 2 Women
- The Luxury of Learning Biblical Languages Online
- Training for the Harvest Field
- Releasing Women for Ministry
- Ministry Training in the Local Church
Women in Ministry
- Why are we Complementarian?
- What did the Archbishop say about the Apostle?
- Discipling Women 1: The Starting Point
- Discipling Women 2: The Knotty Issues
- Developing Women's Ministry in Your Church
- How do I help women grow?
- How do I stay fresh in ministry?
- Help! I’ve been asked to give a gospel talk
- Women’s Ministry in Hard Places
- What is Complementarianism?
- Transformed by the Word
- Transformed by Relationships
- Training Women to use their Gifts
- Barbie Girl, Barbie World
- Training Women: A Priority for Pastors
- Giving Thanks
- God’s Design for Women (Book Review)
- Developing Women’s Ministry in the Local Church
- Women's Workers in the Local Church
- Being a Ministry Wife
- Marriage, Ministry & Family Life under the Spotlight
- Unexceptional (Book Review)
- Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women (Book Review)
- The Challenges and Joys of a Lockdown Women’s Worker
- Certainty in Uncertain Times
- Help! I’m Married to my Pastor (Book Review)
- Affirming Women in Ministry
- Pray for Your Pastor’s Wife
- Leadership Blind Spots : Women
- Do I Have What It Takes to Be a Ministry Wife?
- Is it Worth the Effort?
- How Can I Be Content as a Ministry Wife?
- How Should I Respond to Criticism?
- Women's Ministry and Depending on God
- Is Complementarianism Abusive?
- Women's Ministry in Smaller Churches
- Caring for Anxiety Sufferers
- Releasing Women for Ministry
- Offering Hope to Domestic Abuse Victims
- When Can I Say 'No' in Church Life?
- Support For and From Ministry Wives
- Embracing Complementarianism (Book Review)
- Can I Have Friends at Church?
- Discipling Women in Church Life
- Different, Yet the Same: Is Complementarianism Unjust?
World Mission
- World Mission for Sunday Schools
- Pray for the World
- World Mission for Small Groups
- How to Lead Your Church in World Mission
- World Mission After Covid (Webinar)
- World Mission and the Local Church
- World Mission in the 21st Century
- Caring for Your Missionaries
- Working with Mission Agencies
- Looking Further Afield
One-offs
- God’s Big Promises Bible Storybook (Book Review)
- 5 Ways to Make the Most of the Leaders' Conference
- Bad Shepherds and Good Shepherds
- An Even Playing Field to Share the Bible
- A Gospel-Hearted Love for Smaller Churches
- Church in a Weekend
- Know Your Flock Before You Preach
- Raising Confident Kids (Book Review)
- Buying Too Small
- Caring for Widows (Book Review)
- Road Map to Jesus (Book Review)
- Refreshed (Book Review)
- Unity in Christ
- Advice from a Retiring Minister
- Ministry Couples at the Leaders' Conference
- Priscilla, Where Are You? (Book Review)
- Working Together for the Gospel in Liverpool
- Busy (Book Review)
- Why a Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches?
- Unconventional (Book Review)
- FIEC Distinctives: our Ethos Statements
- Confessions of a Moderator
- Holding Out Hope for Hidden Sufferers
- Your Church's Digital Presence (Why, Who, What)
- A New Building for a Cheshire Church
- How to Pray for One Hundred
- Regathering and Restarting (Annual Review 2021/22)
- Christmas Praise! (Resource Review)
- Sing a New (Centenary) Song
- Embracing Complementarianism (Book Review)
- The Universe is Made of Stories
- Leaders Who Follow (Book Review)
- Support For and From Ministry Wives
- Gospel-Driven Wills and Legacies
- How to Make the Most of Your FIEC Church Profile
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?