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I'm delighted that Paul has given me this opportunity to tell you about something new that I think our movement is becoming, in lots of ways it's not our movement it's getting in line with the Missio Dei. The movement is His. Well, here's the big news today aswell as informing you how to...

Dr. Steve Lawson, one of our speakers for the first Texas Hill Country Bible Conference, will be speaking to KSLR in San Antonio about the conference this afternoon at 2:30 PM local time. Click here to listen!

Guest Post by Missional Max, who is a radical church planter into all things Missional: Struggling to get on board with God's mission? Find it hard to take opportunities to speak about the radical kingdom? Haven't brought anyone to Christ in the last 3 days? Fed up with tradition? Want to live...

Whilst on holiday I read a great book on boxing: 'The Four Kings' , by George Kimbrall, whcih recalls the careers of Roberto 'Hands of Stone' Duran, Thomas 'Hitman' Hearns, 'Sugar' Ray Leonard and the 'Marvellous' Marvin Hagler, documenting the remarkable effect they had on boxing. It's a great...

A friend just asked about Andrew Fuller, one of the leading lights of the 18th and 19th century Particular Baptists, and a man to be reckoned with in any age. Mention of Fuller always brings to mind one of his most memorable and - for me - compelling counsels. He wrote: It is to be feared the old...

Whilst I was away I received news that the Archbishop of the FIEC John 'Shakin' Stevens has succumbed to blogging - Dissenting Opinion . It looks very interesting indeed, a mixture of news, comment, theological comment, excellent expository thoughts and of course FIEC propaganda.

Brian Maiden, Brian who?!? Brian is the minister of Parr Street Evangelical Chruch in Kendal, Cumbria. He trained at London Bible College in the 60s; the same era as people like Terry Virgo and Peter Lewis. He was a minister in Stockport but has been in Kendal for about 15 years. You've probably...

In The Christian Ministry - which, incidentally, every pastor and would-be pastor ought to read - Charles Bridges weighs in on the matter of pastoral character. Again, he is not so much taking up and directly expounding a passage like 1 Timothy 3, but rather painting with careful strokes of the...

After reading Dr. Trueman's and Pastor Walker's posts on this topic, the reader will permit me a fair amount of reticence to post on 1 Timothy 3:4-5. My colleagues' thoughts have been very convicting to my own rather green pastoral conscience, so I write with a good bit of trepidation! It is...

Make sure you read Dr. Richard Belcher's excellent review of C. John Collins's Did Adam and Eve Really Exist!