Well, most young girls dream of one day meeting the man of their dream, getting married and living happily ever after. But do they dream of getting married, having their evenings taken over by youth groups, their weekends taken over by church and their holidays taken over by camping in fields? Basically does anyone dream …
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Embrace Your Calling!
No matter what your age and where you are on the journey, if you are called to ministry in the local church, James Emery White has a message for you: no other calling will satisfy.
James will face the joys and challenges of church ministry head on at three 1-day seminars (April 23-27) in …
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Preaching – Part 6
by Anthony Clarke, Tutor in Pastoral Studies and Community Learning, Regent’s Park College, Oxford
Whose sermon is it?
Sometimes we can be very possessive about our sermons, which is not surprising especially if we have put in a number of hours work to study the Biblical text and to prepare what we will …
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Preaching – Part 4
by Anthony Clarke, Tutor in Pastoral Studies and Community Learning, Regent’s Park College, Oxford
Understand the Bible for Themselves
One of the questions I want to explore in preaching seminars and classes is what preaching is really all about – not just the practical details of good sermons, but the whole purpose behind what …
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Preaching – Part 3
by Anthony Clarke, Tutor in Pastoral Studies and Community Learning, Regent’s Park College, Oxford
Tag-team Preaching
An innovation in our church this year has been what we have called tag-team preaching. I wasn’t convinced about the wrestling analogy, but it has worked well. Although there are four quite experienced preachers involved in the church, …
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Preaching – Part 2
by Anthony Clarke, Tutor in Pastoral Studies and Community Learning, Regent’s Park College, Oxford
What is your sermon trying to do?
We are used to thinking that sermons say things, about God, the world and how we live in it. But sermons also ‘do’ things to people as well. We should expect this, because Scripture …
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Preaching – Part 1
by Anthony Clarke, Tutor in Pastoral Studies and Community Learning, Regent’s Park College, Oxford
Get to the Point
Recently I had to write something and was asked to do it in 5000 words. So I began, changing, correcting, adding as I went and finished with nearly 6,500 words. Somehow 1500 words had to go! …
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Guest Blogger Paul Bangs is an evangelist, motivational speaker, business trainer and life coach. He kindly responded to our request to provide an inspirational series for the ‘Lead & Learn’ site. Over the GLS season, Paul will be sharing how we can make our dream a reality. The programme is inspired by John C Maxwell’s …
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Guest Blogger Paul Bangs is an evangelist, motivational speaker, business trainer and life coach. He kindly responded to our request to provide an inspirational series for the ‘Lead & Learn’ site. Over the GLS season, Paul will be sharing how we can make our dream a reality. The programme is inspired by John C Maxwell’s …
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