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)
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
- Youth & Children’s Work in Lockdown (Webinar)
- Caring for Families and Children in Lockdown (Webinar)
Church Stories
- Accidental Church Planters
- What do they really think?
- Bringing Church to the Community
- Rethinking Sundays
- Pruning Enables Growth
- Training Women: A Priority for Pastors
- Taking the Gospel to Sportspeople
- Premises Pledges Smash Target
- Prayers led to Plant
- From Revitalisation to Planting
- 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
- How Four Churches Reopened Their Buildings After Lockdown (or Didn't)
- Christianity Explored: Online Experiences & Lessons Learnt
- A Positive COVID Test at Church: Now What?
- Christmas Dinners Needing a Home
- The Chapel Channel
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
Evangelism & Apologetics
- Dependent on God's Heart for the Lost
- The Plentiful Harvest
- Engaging Evangelism 1
- Engaging Evangelism 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 1
- Defending Against Defeater Beliefs 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
- Easter Evangelism in Lockdown (Webinar)
- 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
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)
- Rest and Renewal: Sabbaticals for Pastors
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
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
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
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
- Wearing Face Masks at Church
- Making the Most of a Season of Online Ministry
- Why ‘Church In Person’ is Better
- Sung Worship When You Can't Sing (Webinar)
- 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
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
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
- How to Care for Your Women’s Worker in Lockdown
- Women's Ministry in Lockdown and Beyond (Webinar)
- Certainty in Uncertain Times
- Help! I’m Married to my Pastor (Book Review)
- Affirming Women in Ministry
- Pray for Your Pastor’s Wife
- Keep Going When You’re Feeling Weary
One-offs
- Why are we Complementarian?
- Lost in Translation?
- What did the Archbishop say about the Apostle?
- Developing Women's Ministry in Your Church
- 12 Things to Look For When Calling a Pastor
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations
- Using Commentaries in Preaching
- What is Complementarianism?
- Accidental Church Planters
- Fire Safety
- Speak Up
- Church Growth
- What do they really think?
- Effective Facebook Advertising
- God and the Transgender Debate (Book Review)
- But What Do They Hear?
- Pastoral Contentment
- Data Protection Law and Your Church
- Gap Theory v2.0
- Knowing Our Times
- Staying Safe Online
- Moving the Family
- Ministry Discouragement
- Making up for Lost Time
- Embedded in our World?
- Five Ways to Spend a Legacy
- Who’s to blame?
- First Aid
- Training Women to use their Gifts
- Why Read One-to-One?
- Vivid Imagery
- Copyright and Your Church
- Prioritising “Together Prayer”
- World Mission for Sunday Schools
- Rediscovering Spurgeon’s Treasure
- Speaking of Death
- The Whole Counsel of God
- Ministry Lessons from a Comedy Duo
- Property Transactions
- Should Your Church Become a CIO?
- How to Avoid Lazy Praying
- Bringing Church to the Community
- Changing Times
- Barbie Girl, Barbie World
- Pray for the World
- Jesus in the Middle
- Rethinking Sundays
- Pruning Enables Growth
- Honouring God’s Servants
- Training Women: A Priority for Pastors
- Revitalisation: encouragements, challenges & pitfalls
- Taking the Gospel to Sportspeople
- Premises Pledges Smash Target
- Prayers led to Plant
- Evangelism in a Skeptical World (Book Review)
- From Revitalisation to Planting
- A Pastoral Podcast
- Inner City Planting
- What kind of church would I like to belong to?
- Moving Forwards in Faith
- Music Without Musicians
- Another Learning Experience
- Ministry in Wales
- Leading All-Age Services
- A Church Weekend with a Difference
- Growth from Transatlantic Partnership
- A Call to Prayer
- Family Fun with a Gospel Purpose
- Remembrance Hymn
- Giving Thanks
- Called to the Mountains
- A Harvest of Hope?
- God’s Design for Women (Book Review)
- Church Planting: the next wave?
- Hidden Evil (Book Review)
- Spreading a Passion for Jesus
- Plugged In (Book Review)
- He Made His Dwelling Amongst Us
- The Creaking on the Stairs (Book Review)
- Ministry Amongst Britain’s Poorest
- Introducing New Songs to Your Church
- Music for Smaller Churches
- Growing Your Music Team
- Lessons in Common Grace
- The Pastoral Support Team
- 7 Key Attributes of a Music Team Member
- Tax Returns as a Christian Witness
- Unexceptional (Book Review)
- 3 Ways for Churches to Creatively Use Social Media
- The Luxury of Learning Biblical Languages Online
- Time for Every Thing? (Book Review)
- A Marriage Made in Heaven: Stockwell Baptist Church
- A Fruitless Ministry?
- A Closer Look in The Mirror (and the Light)
- The Envy of Eve (Book Review)
- The Generosity Project: Joyful Giving for the Sake of the Gospel
- Race and the Evangelical Church
- Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women (Book Review)
- Preachers: Learn to Listen Well
- Helping the Suffering (Book Review)
- Caring For Your Pastor
- Deeper Still (Book Review)
- Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation for Every Woman (Book Review)
- A Daily Training Regime
- Calling Your Pastor
- Held (Book Review)
- How to Care for Your Women’s Worker in Lockdown
- Six Ways to Mark Reformation Day in Your Church
- Behind the Wire: Remembrance Sunday
- What Should You Pay Your Pastor?
- God's Faithfulness to FIEC in the Time of Coronavirus - AGM 2019/20
- Fixated (Book Review)
- How an App Can Help Your Church Pray
- The King Has Arrived (Album Review)
- Digital is a New Chapter in a 2,000-Year-Old Mission
- 2019-2020: Unexpected yet Encouraging (Annual Review)
- More Than a Return to Normal
- Be a Gospel Optimist in 2021
- Certainty in Uncertain Times
- Christmas Dinners Needing a Home
- Gifts for Visiting Preachers (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
- Putting Easter On Trial (Who Moved the Stone?)
- The Easter Playlist
- 8 Ways to Support Your Church Treasurer
- Help! I’m Married to my Pastor (Book Review)
- Affirming Women in Ministry
- Pray for Your Pastor’s Wife
- Turning Online Viewers into Jesus Followers
- Finding the Right Hills to Die On (Book Review)
- Assurance, Hope, and Boasting at Easter
- World Mission for Small Groups
- If Only (Book Review)
- Gentle Leaders
- Being the Bad Guys (Book Review)
- From a Discipline to a Delight
- What is Independent Church Ministry?
- Remember: the Lord Remembers
- Rest and Renewal: Sabbaticals for Pastors