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| Armour of God | Genuine conflict | | Soldiers aren’t surprised when they have to engage in warfare. But I sense that sometimes we’re shocked when we hit difficult times. We think we’ve found the secret of happiness but we’ve also found a life in which we need to wear the armour every day!
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| The future of Newfrontiers | Who is an apostle? | | We often call ourselves a ‘family of churches’ and although that’s not a Bible phrase it’s one we feel comfortable with. God Himself lives as Trinity, in loving relationship, so we love emphasising that magnificent value of expressing mutual love
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| The future of Newfrontiers | Honouring the future | | So apostolic churches are caught up ‘together on a mission’. That’s not just the name of a conference, it’s who we are! We are nations, crossing borders, entering, moving on, trying to recapture Biblical Christianity. We must fight for a Biblical
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| The future of Newfrontiers | The end of the beginning | | Dear friends, we are coming to the end of the beginning. We’ve some ‘i’ dotting and ‘t’ crossing to do. But the principle is clear. Jesus didn’t hand over to one successor, not even Peter! A friend helpfully defined it like this: ‘When Peter stood
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| Accepting one another | | When we are selective about who we think we can or cannot meet with, what we are actually saying is that we don’t have enough in common with that other person – who has been saved by the blood of Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit
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| The Family of God | | Absalom is the ghastly example of a son who completely failed his father. With his rebellion came multiplied pain and chaos.
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| Why church planting? | | Church planting, it has been observed, is the most effective form of evangelism. Some statisticians have done the sums and worked out that you get more individuals saved through church planting than from any other form of evangelism.
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| Apostles today | Apostles and Church leaders | | As a Charismatic and a Bible-loving Christian, I believe that when Jesus ascended he gave gifts to his church. Exalted to the right hand of God, he received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and poured out not only the Pentecostal blessing describe
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| Apostles today | Shepherds of the flock | | The fact is that when God called Abraham, Moses and David they were all shepherds. They looked after sheep! Jesus didn’t say, ‘I am the good apostle,’ or ‘the good prophet,’ or even ‘the good evangelist,’ but happily claimed to be the Good Shepherd
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| Apostles today | Are there apostles today? | | Some years ago I attended an informal gathering of Christian leaders in the UK when, to my surprise, they began to discuss among themselves whether perhaps some of them were apostles. I think that if they had raised the possibility that some of them might
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| Apostles today | Apostolic foundations | | What was the task of the apostle? Primarily, as foundation-layers, they gave identity to the church. Historically those who received Jesus of Nazareth as the authentic Messiah were formed into a radically new community that had never existed before.
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| From Living Rooms to Warehouses | | Last Sunday proved to be a very exciting day for me. I was invited to speak at the opening of a huge warehouse, which now is the meeting place for The King’s Church, in Mid-Sussex.
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| Student commitment to the local church | | I was particularly pleased to note in the current issue of the UCCF magazine an emphasis on being passionate about the local church. It’s so good to read Richard Cunningham, the UCCF Director, making it so clear that all students in CUs are strongly urged
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| Series | Covenant Life Church, Washington | | I was recently invited to speak at Covenant Life Church by Joshua Harris. I found the people there extraordinarily warm and friendly and enjoyed being with them. Covenant Life has made available online the messages I preached there.
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| 17 Values – Elders: A Team With A Leader | | 8 | ‘A church led by male elders (one of whom is clearly understood to be gifted to be lead elder) who are ordained by the Holy Spirit, recognised and confirmed through apostolic ministry. These men are to be helped in fulfilling their calling through ong
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| 17 Values – Marriage, Parenting And Being Single | | 7 | ‘A church where Biblical family life is highly valued, where husband and wife embrace male servant leadership and joyful female submission, where godly parenting is taught and practised and where the special value of singleness and its unique opportun
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| 17 Values – Free To Worship | | 5 | “A Church where God’s presence is prized and where God is enthusiastically worshipped with genuine freedom for men and women to worship publicly in the Holy Spirit, to use spiritual gifts and to participate in ‘body ministry’ ”
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| Study 18 - A Magnificent House | | When you aim at excellence, people will step into your meetings and experience complete culture shock. They will be assailed by joy, enthusiasm, energy and exuberant life. And they will say to themselves, ‘God is here.' God is looking for an exceedingly m
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| Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission | | David’s excellent book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the role of the apostle in the New Testament church. Thoroughly Biblical in its approach, it challenges the frequently held view that apostles functioned only in the first century
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| Adopted into God's Family | | Trevor Burke vividly demonstrates that although it is wonderful to be justified and declared righteous by God and also to be redeemed from the slavery of sin, more wonderful than all is to be adopted into God's family and enjoy the full rights of sonship.
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| Invading secular space | | A thoughtful and provocative book centred in the conviction that for the church to fulfil its God-given calling it must restructure itself around the centrality of its call to mission.
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| Dynamic Diversity | | Bruce Milne brings us a very up-to-date view of God's great plan to establish across the world what John Kpikpi calls 'God's New Tribe'.
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| Planting Missional Churches | | Ed Stetzer’s excellent book has the sub-title ‘Planting A Church That’s Biblically Sound and Reaching People in Culture’. He has done a fine job, both in terms of retaining Biblical soundness and also being phenomenally relevant to the culture.
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| Ephesians commentaries | | Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians has always been a particular favourite of mine with its very strong church emphasis. As John Stott says, ‘Nobody can emerge from a careful reading of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians with a privatised gospel.'
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| Safely Home | | Deeply rooted in Randy Alcorn's strong theology of eternity previously encountered in his outstanding Money, Possessions and Eternity, he provides an excellent insight to circumstances in the church in China today.
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| The Temple and The Church's Mission | | Anyone interested in world mission and also interested in the presence of God in His house should be magnetically drawn to this superb book. Surely worship and mission are two of our greatest passions
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| Moving in the Prophetic | | None of us who know Greg and his fine reputation will be surprised to learn that this book, on the use of the gift of prophecy in the local church, is Biblically rooted, wonderfully practical and completely accessible.
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| The Mission of God | | This magnificent book not only displays a wonderful overview of the Bible's grand narrative, it also provides profound motivation for faith, worship and expectation of inevitable blessing on a grand scale.
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| The Reason for God | | So much more than an apologetics book to give to your atheistic or agnostic friend, this book is full of beautiful, colourful surprises to excite and stir the most longstanding Christian.
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| Sounds From Heaven | | This eye witness account of the revival in the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides from 1949-1952 is stirring stuff. Well worth reading just to catch the atmosphere of an island overwhelmed by the invasion of the Spirit of God.
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| God's Unfaithful | | A stirring insight into God's attitude to disloyalty from His people. Sin is regarded not simply as the breaking of a code but as a breakdown of relationship with a God who wants to delight in the unique and passionate love of His bride.
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| Great Revivals | | It is always good for your soul to be reminded of revival days of the past. Few books on revival are as accessible and rewarding as this and I wholeheartedly recommend it to you.
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| John Newton, From Disgrace to Amazing Grace | | Brilliantly told, Jonathan Aitken’s magnificent biography of John Newton has all the pace of a novel and unfolds the substantial drama of a man rescued from all kinds of excesses, including being the captain of a slave ship with all its associated evils.
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| Slave of Christ | | This excellent book provides eye-opening background to Jewish, Greek and Roman slavery and provides strong arguments for our re-thinking the word 'servant' in most modern Bibles where the word 'slave' should be used.
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