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Supporting Planters' Wives

Siân Robinson

Life as a planter's wife can be stressful, lonely, and tiring. How can they maintain their joy continue to thrive? A talk from Planters 2025.

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Intercultural Church Planting

Rick Raja

How do we appropriately reflect and embody the different cultures in our churches?

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A Helpful Feedback Culture

Josh Monteiro

How can we create good feedback loops and avoid feeling overly sensitive to criticism? A talk from Planters 2025.

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Preaching the Book of Job

Eric Ortlund

What are the joys and challenges of preaching through Job? A seminar from the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Shepherding and Mental Health

Helen Thorne-Allenson

What can we do to help those struggling with mental health in ways that are loving, biblical, and wise? From the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Kingdom Shepherds

John Stevens

The parables of Jesus are kingdom stories which answer key questions about the kingdom of Christ. A seminar from the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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The Shepherd and Authority

Martin Salter , Dan Strange , Ray Evans

How can we exercise authority in ways which bless the church and cause it to flourish? A seminar from the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Cultivating a Healthy Women’s Ministry

Rachel Sloan , Elinor Magowan

How do we create a culture where women’s ministry is resourced well and appropriately valued? A seminar for men from the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Finishing Strong: the Last Years of Paid Ministry

Paul Kinnaird

When church leaders enter, or move through, the last 10 years of paid church ministry, how can they keep going? From the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Shepherding Families in a World of Sexual Confusion

Ed Drew

How can we understand the changing attitudes to complex sexuality in the world, and lead the church in responding? From the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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The Continued Humanity of Jesus

Paul Mallard

How do the temptations Christ faced make him able to help us now and minister wisely and carefully to the flock? From the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Responding to the ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban

Danny Webster

What are the dangers in the policy area of 'conversion therapy' and how should churches respond to the challenge? From the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Preaching to Women

Andy Constable , Sharon Dickens

How do men teach women and how can they get better at it? A seminar from the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Shepherding as Coaching and Mentoring

Matt Waldock

How can we embrace a right view of coaching to develop our own capabilities and release others to serve and go? From the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Sitting at the Shepherd's Feet

Elinor Magowan , Rachel Sloan

What should our priorities be in ministry and how are we to respond to Jesus, the one who shepherds our souls? From the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Shepherding Sufferers

Eric Ortlund

How do we prepare the flock to suffer? A seminar from the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Shepherding Parents

Ed Drew

Parents have the primary responsibility for their children: how can we shepherd them to be godly in this task? A 2024 Leaders' Conference seminar.

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Shepherding Those Facing Domestic Abuse

Helen Thorne-Allenson

How can we walk alongside those who suffer domestic abuse in a way that brings lasting hope? A seminar from the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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Shepherding Those With Addictions

Andy Constable

What strategies can help us as we seek to care for those battling both seen and unseen addictions? A seminar from the 2024 Leaders' Conference.

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The Beginning and the End

James Mildred , Pete Killingley

How can the church be a clear voice when it comes to the issues of abortion and euthanasia? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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Pursuing Justice With the Heart of Jesus

Inonge Siluka

How can we serve people well without becoming paternalistic or colonial? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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Righteousness and Race

Jason Roach

What place does the church have in bringing healing to a fractured world when it comes to race? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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Loving Our World

Dave Gobbett

Can we love and be concerned for God’s creation without going liberal? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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How to Do Nothing

Gavin Smith

How can we raise up administrators to ease operational burden and enhance the ministry of the gospel? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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Are We Allowed to Disagree About Justice Issues?

Paul Mallard , Dan Strange , Bill James , John Stevens

Are we at liberty to reach different conclusions about cultural engagement and issues of justice? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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When Leaders Don't Want to Lead

Peter Dray

How do we encourage younger adults to see the call to leadership positively? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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When Dry Law Lives

Edward Connor Solicitors

How can legal compliance be worked into church life to work justice that is evident to all? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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Who Are the Widows?

Jonathan Parkinson

Who are the marginalised groups in the world today and how we can serve and help them? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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The Goal is Equality

Matt Oliver

What does it mean to be just as we think about relationships and partnerships between churches? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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Looking Further Afield

Steve Palframan

How does a right view of God's justice shape our desire to see the unsaved escape God's judgement? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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A Place to Belong

Kay Morgan-Gurr

How can a right view of justice help a church to be effective as it welcomes those with neurodivergence? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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What is Evangelical Theology's Problem With Justice?

Yannick Christos-Wahab , Martin Salter

What is it about our theology that makes it difficult for us to deal well with these important issues? A seminar from the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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Christians and Politics

Tim Farron , James Mildred

How can we see politics positively, engage in it constructively, and help our congregations do likewise? From the 2023 Leaders' Conference.

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Unity in Christ

Andy Hunter

Ephesians 1 speaks of the glorious unity that God will bring about in Christ. What does that look like on the macro and micro levels, and in between?

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Regathering and Restarting (Annual Review 2021/22)

John Stevens

A review of the past year - in which we emerged from lockdowns - and a look forward as we continue to serve God in FIEC's 100th year.

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Developing a Healthy Leadership Culture

Richard Lacey , Carolyn Lacey

What are the foundational principles underpinning a healthy leadership culture? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Creating Meaningful Partnerships Across Cultures

Yannick Christos-Wahab

How do we avoid developing partnerships only with people like us? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Joys and Challenges of Smaller Church Life

Jonathan Bond

What are the joys and challenges of smaller church ministry? How can larger churches help them? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Christ, Trauma, Abuse, and the Church

Phil Swann

We need to know how to minister the grace of Christ to trauma sufferers without re-traumatising them. A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Finding the Right Hills to Die On

Mike Kendall

How do we navigate the challenge of being clear on secondaries, without letting them become primary? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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“The Law is an Ass!” or is it, in Fact, an Asset to Churches?

Edward Connor Solicitors

We need to see that legal requirements don't always restrict ministry but can actually do the opposite. A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Maintaining Church Unity in a Complex World

Colin Adams

How can we develope perception and wisdom in our increasingly complex world for the sake of church unity? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Developing Meaningful National Partnerships

Tim Manson , Peter Roberts

How can churches develop partnerships that are outside of geographic areas yet equally meaningful? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Developing Meaningful Local Partnerships

Paul Gamston

To work together to reach Britain for Christ, we must have meaningful local partnerships based on trust. A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Complementarianism in Practice

Paul Rees , Rachel Sloan

There have been many seminars and books on complementarianism; but how should it work in practice? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Engaging with Issues in an Unbelieving World

Sharon James

What are the current ethical issues facing the church? How do we lead our churches through them? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Current Challenges in the Doctrine of the Church

Graham Beynon

What challenges to our ecclesiological convictions are we facing and what we can do to address them? A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Independency Yesterday, Today, and for the Future

Robert Strivens

Independency remains a biblically convictional position that sets us up well for ministry in our context. A seminar from the 2022 Leaders' Conference.

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Building for the Long Term

Adrian Reynolds , Matthew Jones

New Life Church Wall Heath's new building has been 10 years in the making, and was built with a long term vision in mind.

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Conversion Therapy: A Biblical Response

John Stevens

Though there are many "conversion therapy" practices Christians should reject as abhorrent, a ban poses a real threat to ordinary gospel ministry.

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Affirming Women in Ministry

John Stevens

How should complementarian churches enable gifted women to serve in ministry?

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Antidote to Anxiety

Richard Lacey

A talk from Philippians 4:4-9. One of three main talks given at The Hub Conference 2020.

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Nehemiah 3

Mez McConnell

The second of three main talks given at The Hub Conference 2020.

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2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Mez McConnell

The first of three main talks given at The Hub Conference 2020.

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Marriage, Ministry & Family Life under the Spotlight

Siân Baker

This seminar explores some of the challenges ministry wives face in keeping focus on Jesus, especially when they feel under the spotlight.

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Elders & Trustees: How to make it work

Caroline Eade

To what extent should the role of an elder and that of a charity trustee overlap? This seminar looks at the legal issues related to church leadership.

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Sexual Passions, Purity and the Pitfalls of Leadership

Ste Casey

No leader sets out to shipwreck their ministry through sexual sin. So how can we pursue purity, satisfaction and solace as leaders?

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Emotional Intelligence in Leaders

Tom Fenning

In recent years there has been a growing interest in 'Emotional Intelligence'. But what is it and how can it help us lead more effectively?

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Being a Ministry Wife

Elinor Magowan

This seminar looks at the ministry wife's identity in Christ, her calling and its privileges, and her character.

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On Sermon Preparation and Delivery

Mark Dever

Mark shares his conviction and practice of expositional preaching, and describes his own process and method of sermon preparation.

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Leading Your Church in Evangelism

Colin Smith

How can the church best do the work of evangelism in a post-Christian culture?

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Women's Workers in the Local Church

Mike Kendall , Catherine Heath

A Pastor and a Women's Worker share some of their experiences of what the role of Women's Worker looks like within a staff team and wider church.

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Leading Leaders: Staff Teams

Johnny Prime

With a growing staff team, a pastor discovers he has new responsibilities alongside his usual work. So how can you lead a happy and united staff team?

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Equipping Leaders to Lead Teams

Ray Evans

How can any church team achieve greater effectiveness? What makes a good team player... and team leader? How do you lead great team meetings?

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Developing Youth and Children’s Leaders

Mel Lacy , Stui Chaplin

How do you develop skilled and committed children’s and youth ministry leaders? How do you conceive a training programme to nurture and equip them?

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Developing Women’s Ministry in the Local Church

Elspeth Pitt

Why women’s ministry must be an essential part of the life of any church; what we are aiming to do in women’s ministry; and how to go about it.

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Raising Leaders: Risk & Failure

Liam Garvie , Pete Stewart

How do we know when to take a risk with training people to be leaders? What can we do to minimise failure?

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Raising Leaders: Diverse Backgrounds

Raymond Brown

Is it important for churches to be multicultural and, if so, how should this be reflected in their leadership?

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Raising Leaders: Volunteers

Ray Evans

How do you raise up volunteers, and then train, motivate, and support them? And what happens if it all goes sour?

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Raising Leaders: Godly Elders

Mark Dever

How can you disciple and raise up elders in the church? And how can you cultivate leadership gifts in others?

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Being Excited about the Name of Jesus

Ian Williamson

The last of three main talks given at The Hub Conference 2019. Ian Williamson teaches from Acts 4.

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‘Reminding’ is Our Great Ministry

Nathan Howard

The second of three main talks given at The Hub Conference 2019. Nathan Howard teaches from 2 Timothy 2.

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'Remembering' is Our Great Need

Nathan Howard

The first of three main talks given at The Hub Conference 2019. Nathan Howard teaches from 2 Timothy 2.

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What's New in Safeguarding?

Paul Harrison

Examining current changes in safeguarding and their implications for churches.

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Don't Waste a Good Crisis

Dave McDonald

This seminar will assist you to point people who are facing hardship, illness, or other crises, to the ultimate hope found only in Jesus.

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Effective Communication: Ensure the Word Impacts

Ray Evans , Jonty Allcock

The second of two seminars exploring the key elements of good communication.

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Effective Communication: Let the Word Loose

Ray Evans , Jonty Allcock

The first of two seminars exploring the key elements of good communication.

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Evangelism: Making it Normal

Daf Meirion-Jones , Pete Woodcock

How can we train people so that they are confident in the gospel, less terrified at the prospect of sharing it and better equipped to do so?

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Evangelism: Making it Central

Daf Meirion-Jones , Pete Woodcock

How can we orientate the church around reaching the lost, do the work of an evangelist and encourage a mission mindset in people's everyday lives?

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Reaching the Elderly with the Gospel

Helen Thorne-Allenson

How can we reach those in later life with the good news and grow churches where older members thrive in Kingdom-service?

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Reaching Women with the Gospel

Helen Thorne-Allenson

How can we reach 21st century women with the gospel?

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Effective Evangelistic Courses

Karl Faase

Karl Faase reviews several approaches to evangelism in which local churches can engage.

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Jesus the Game Changer

Karl Faase

Karl Faase explores how public life in the West has been shaped by the Lord Jesus.

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Apologetics in the Public Square

David Robertson

How do we engage in persuasive evangelism in the Public Square? Where is our ‘market place’?

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Apologetics in the Local Church

David Robertson

What does the practice of persuasive evangelism look like? And how we can equip our congregations to go into all the world?

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Psalm 139

Sam Buckley

Sam Buckley from Christ Church Hemel unpacks this wonderful Psalm. This was the third talk at The Hub Conference 2018.

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Progress #2

Adrian Reynolds

In the second of two talks on progress from The Hub Conference 2018, Adrian Reynolds encourages progress in faith, love and purity.

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Progress #1

Adrian Reynolds

In the first of two talks from The Hub Conference 2018, Adrian Reynolds highlights the importance of progress in speech and conduct.

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Investing in the Ministry of Music

Colin Webster

A seminar to help church leaders develop the music ministry in their church.

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Creating Capacity for Change

Caroline Eade

Help to think through some of the governance challenges that arise when churches go through change.

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Thabiti Anyabwile Masterclass

Thabiti Anyabwile

A focused session on church leadership with Thabiti Anyabwile and a group of younger FIEC pastors, chaired by FIEC National Director John Stevens.

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Should Every Church be Multi-Racial?

Thabiti Anyabwile

How important is diversity in a local church? Is being multi-racial a biblical mandate?

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Church Planting - just for the young, hip and fabulous?

Thabiti Anyabwile

In this seminar, Thabiti Anyabwile draws on his experience of planting a church later in his ministry.

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The Church, the World, and the Public Square

David Shaw

This second of two seminars applies the biblical-theological categories from seminar one to the life and mission of the church.

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Aliens and Strangers or Culture Makers?

David Shaw

This first of two seminars on church doctrine explores some categories to help us discover how the local church relates to the world.

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Transformed by Relationships

Kristie Anyabwile

Some people are hard to love. This seminar for women considers how Christ calls all Christians to love one another as He has loved us.

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Transformed by the Word

Kristie Anyabwile

This seminar for women considers Psalm 119:89-96 as a motivating passage to encourage us to fix our eyes on the One whose Word is fixed forever.

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Nurturing a Culture of Evangelism

Mark Lawrence

How do we get our churches to put evangelism at the forefront of everything they do?

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Leading a Culture of Change

Mark Lawrence

A case study in reorienting church culture - leading a congregation from being inward looking to becoming outward looking.

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The Devotional Life of the Pastor (part 2)

Michael Reeves

The devotional life of the pastor when they are struggling and suffering.

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