Newfrontiers Bloggers

Blogs from Newfrontiers churches and individuals across the globe.

Jon Cressey

Unpacking Matthew 8:1-5 - It’s a well-known, quick story—you won’t fall asleep reading it. It’s the kind of story where there was this, there was that, and then it was all over. Per...
1 day ago
Mark's blog

Books that shaped me #2 Ordering Your Private World by Gordon MacDonald - Before the best selling *The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry* by John Marc Cromer there was this book in the 1980s : *Ordering Your* *Private World*. It was ...
2 days ago
Liam Thatcher

Freedom (Romans 6) - On Sunday I spoke at Wantage Community Church as part of their series on Romans. We looked at chapter 6 and considered the subject of freedom. What differe...
3 days ago
adrianwarnock.com

Is Trump Fueling the End-Times Rebellion of the Church? - Over 80% of Evangelical Christians in the USA voted for Donald Trump. He, not Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States. At the end of...
1 week ago
Caffeinated Wanderings

- Early in my life as a new believer I lived in a Christian commune called the Lighthouse Ranch. It was a five acre former coastguard station located on ...
3 weeks ago
Jeff Featherstone (Halifax, UK)

You can tell a lot about a church by whether anyone speaks to you - A few years ago I visited two churches in Geneva on the same day, and the differences between them were striking. Both were churches planted in recent y...
5 weeks ago
Lex Loizides

The God of Wonders - 'Waves of power often overwhelmed them,' and 'O God, be merciful unto Dave the bully!', and 'The morals of whole communities were vastly improved..' Some o...
1 month ago
One Pink Toothbrush

Dumb Phone - Getting ready for the new school term, working out what we already have, what can be passed down from sibling to sibling, and what needs to be budgeted f...
2 months ago
grahamcrosbie.com

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3 months ago
The Moyles

Detecting if an HTML colour is light or dark - WordPress ships with the Farbtastic color picker, which is great if you want users to be able to select a colour. For a recent plugin I wanted users to be ...
4 months ago
Phil Whittall

Midsummer - [image: Midsummer] Today is Midsummer’s Eve and the beginning of the BIGGEST celebration in the Swedish calendar. Yes bigger than Christmas, yes bigger th...
4 months ago
Braving the Storm with Eric Gaudion

Is Revenge a Dish Best Served Cold? - 'Revenge is a dish best served cold' is a saying attributed to a French novel of the 18th Century, but frequently quoted in the 21st. It probably came ou...
6 months ago
'the gift half understood'

Of Deep Darkness and Deep Joy - The last nine months have been a bit of a struggle, with health scares and bereavement. I have become way behind on both practice and writing, and a mon...
7 months ago
GodFirst Blog

How Envato Elements Boosts Your Productivity and Workflow - Craving unlimited creative fuel for your video projects, design ventures, or marketing campaigns? Envato Elements might be your answer. Stepping into thi...
9 months ago
clairemusters

Christmas Voices - I am delighted to share my latest book with you: Christmas Voices. I can’t believe that I forgot to post about it here! It is a wonderful book filled wit...
11 months ago
Steve Vaughan

Reflections after 10 years in Dublin - It’s 10 years today since we moved to the Emerald Isle! Our first decade in Dublin is over and it is all change for me and for the church in the new decade...
2 years ago
Marcus Tutt's Blog

Music Maker - The recent AI conversations I’ve heard and images I’ve seen have been so impressive that I wondered if anyone had created AI music using the same technolog...
2 years ago
Simon Benham's Blog

My Blog is Moving to a New Home - I wanted to let you know that my blog is moving to a new home. After many years on Google's blogger site it is moving to be integrated into our Kerith we...
2 years ago
Richard Walker's Blog

Sermon Excerpt: The Face of Christ and the Life of the Soul - What is the soul? It’s the part of us which is eternal and enables us to know and experience God at the deepest and most permanent place of our being. ...
3 years ago
Reflections | The Blog of Nicholas Ferguson

Self-Care: 5 Benefits + 10 Easy to Use Ideas to Practice - Practicing self-care can help you feel more energised and confident. It can also lead to improved relationships. In contrast, by neglecting your self-car...
3 years ago
The Wendy House

Our Christian Heritage - One evening in 1956, Terry’s sister came home and had a chat with him. “I’ve become a Christian”, she announced. Terry wasn’t interested. “Aren’t we all Ch...
3 years ago
Luke's blog

Vaccines - The arrival of vaccines for Covid-19 has been hailed by most people as a cause for hope and rejoicing. At last, the newspaper headlines says, a lig...
3 years ago
In the unlikely event...

Guernsey Gazette 2020 - (This version is designed specifically for those who struggle with free speech or are of a western progressive cultural disposition) Nothing much has happe...
3 years ago
thequietstreet

cornish pasties and raspberry jam - After watching The Great British Bake Off recently, the episode where they were tasked with producing Cornish Pasties, I knew I had to make some that more ...
4 years ago
Die is gain

Struggling with Struggling - Life is a struggle.. Anyone who has taken an intentional breath notices the resistance of their flesh to the desire to inflate one's lungs. It requires exe...
4 years ago
Powells in Santa Cruz

Good Friday- Viernes Santo - On Good Friday we remember the Cross. The death of Jesus Christ, many, many years ago. This one event changed history- and the future. My future, but also ...
4 years ago
Andrew Fountain

The Structure of John 12 - Conclusion of Jesus' public teaching. - - You can view or print a pdf of the structure here: The Structure of John 12 - It contains my translation of the passage, highlighting key w...
4 years ago
The Field's Musings

Biblical Theology 8: Biblical Theology of the Gospels 4 - *Biblical Theology of Jesus and the Gospels- survey in Matthew contd* Rev 11- the church is called two witnesses. - 2 is the number that is valid to be ...
4 years ago
NewSong40

A city for life - This year when I was invited to write for Scripture Union’s Daily Bread Bible reading notes, I was assigned my favourite book in the Bible: Nehemiah. I lov...
5 years ago
Showing Up

Interview: Mistakes & Magic – Fifty Five Stories Down with Matt Blick - Nicholas Tozier of the Lyric Writer’s Workroom interviewed me recently about my new album Fifty Five Stories Down (available here). What artists inspired y...
5 years ago
Graham Pyman

Cambodia update – Thursday morning - So, this is the first time I’ve had a chance to sit down and write an update since Sunday afternoon! So, here’s a brief summary, in case you’re interested…...
5 years ago
Rob Barnes

Read and Download To Kill a Mockingbird Book - [image: To Kill a Mockingbird] Authors:Terry R. Gadd Published on: 2000 Publisher: On The Mark Press Pages: 62 ISBN:1550356119 ISBN13: 9781550356113 Categ...
5 years ago
Catrina Benham's Blog

Guest Blog: Esther in Indonesia - I'm delighted to welcome Esther Ross-Watson to my Blog today! She is a dearly loved member of our Kerith family. She and her late husband Michael served as...
6 years ago
Hearing My Heart

Six Years in Tallinn––Finding Treasure in the Trash - It's six years to the day since we took the short flight from St Petersburg and landed in Tallinn. It's been a year since I last posted on this blog. Tod...
6 years ago
Kevin Gill

Ruth - We have been looking at Ruth recently on Sunday mornings and three over-arching themes continually speak to me. The first theme is grace. We know that Elim...
6 years ago
Joseph Nolan

Why is Zoe Broken? - With the addition to the new Champion Zoe into League of Legends, people are already begging for nerfs. From the Champion designer that created Yasuo and K...
6 years ago
Green Christian

Advent Day 4: After the Beginning - Earlier in this series, we talked about the start of the world, and how this relates to the Christmas story. Today, we’re looking a bit further on in the s...
6 years ago
All Things Taylor

God's Healing Power - On Sunday evening I had a great conversation with one of our young ladies at our 6pm meeting, so I asked her to write it down: "For about 10 years, suffere...
7 years ago
Straight to the Heart

You may have noticed that I’ve not blogged here for a... - You may have noticed that I’ve not blogged here for a while. There’s a reason for that. I have moved my blogging home to *Everyday Voices*. I’m now blogg...
7 years ago
stevangelical

Top Films Seen In 2016 - Following the cliched tradition, here’s my round-up of the sixteen best films I’ve seen for the first time this year, both new and old. There are many I’ve...
7 years ago
Salisbury City Church

Why we're changing our name to Grace Church - This coming Sunday (11th Sept) we switch from being Salisbury City Church to being Grace Church. The reason for the change can be summed up in one word: MI...
8 years ago
Could do better… - Ironically, and somewhat comically, I wrote this blog post last week but didn’t upload it because I didn’t think it was good enough. God certainly has a se...
8 years ago
The Shadow of Victory

SAIL ON SILVER GIRL...... - My goodness ...how long has it been since I was last blogging and posting ....way too long !! So much happened and its going to be almost impossible to ge...
8 years ago
Sean Green's Blog

Luca Anderson - I'm guessing that by now many in RFC will have heard the tragic news that Luca Anderson died on Sunday night (3rd July). His death was unexpected and as ye...
8 years ago
The Failed Atheist Blog

4 reasons why every Christian should be pro-life - I wrote an article a few weeks ago for Premier Christianity Blog which was picked up by Lifenews.com and shared a couple of thousand times and can be viewe...
8 years ago
the blue fish project (dave bish)

Every story whispers his name - Since my first son was very young Sally Lloyd-Jones' The Jesus Storybook Bible has been staple reading in our house. We've probably read it 60-70 times t...
8 years ago
New Community Church Podcast

Ephesians -
8 years ago
nathan the alien

An Attempt at Objectivity - As George Osborne’s first Conservative only Government budget was being delivered yesterday my Twitter and Facebook feeds began to be filled with anger, pa...
8 years ago
Craig Mackay's Blog

Feb 10th and 12th... - February 10th and 12th come around with unceasing regularity (once a year, oddly enough!)....we've had a few tears this week. It's now 6 years for me and ...
8 years ago
starting on saturdays

22 January - My sweet mama would have been 52 today. It’s been 11 years since she squeezed my hands reassuringly as she always used to do. I realise that I’ve missed he...
8 years ago
My Theo-Blogy

You’re Being Watched… - The Western world has been enjoying the “Elf on the Shelf” phenomenon for the last few years now. But just in case you’ve missed it, let me read you an exc...
8 years ago
@CREATORMADE

Number 10 - I don’t often post on this blog anymore, but lastnight something fairly noteworthy happened. I became the 10th Elder of Everyday Church – a fairly sizeable...
8 years ago
The King's Youth

Searching - *Where are you looking for God? * I've been challenged over the past year of how I'm living my life, and my faith. Am I only feeling God's presence when I...
9 years ago
Churchcentral Blog

New Churchcentral Blog - This is no longer the Churchcentral blog! We have a nice shiny, new version. Check it out here: http://www.churchcentral.org.uk/blog/wp-admin/post-new.php ...
9 years ago
Luke Wood's Blog

GBS Update: Friday 19th June 2015 - These blog updates began five years ago. I had been very ill in hospital and, being Christians, we had friends around the world who wanted to pray up-t...
9 years ago
Kings Church London

...by confessing to each other - 'Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.' James 5:16 (N...
9 years ago
Lastword Publications

A hardening of the heart - A lazy day, sprawled out on the beach, inhaling the sweet scent of summer and the excited chatter of children. High in the cloudless sky the sun shone brig...
9 years ago
Paul's Musings

The Maze Runner (2014) - Watch Movie The Maze Runner High QualityDownload The Maze Runner For Free with duration 113 Min and released on 2014-09-19 and MPAA rating is 145. [image...
10 years ago
Gospel Sunshine

New Blog! - Hello! The new blog is finally here! I am quite excited… so please do head over to my new blog. There are some posts over there which are from this blog, b...
10 years ago
Saved by Grace

notes to self | #heishere - *"...in the chaos, in confusion, I know You're sovereign, still..."* *#heishere* (lyrics from *None but Jesus*, by Hillsong United)
10 years ago
Pete Cornford's Blog

The Nations - I love living in Ealing - it is so diverse - there are 172 nationalities that reside here! I so enjoy that Redeemer is made up from people from around the ...
10 years ago
Fenway Church Blog

David W's Sabbatical (Summer 2014) - I am very grateful to have been given an opportunity at my request to take a 2-month sabbatical beginning May 25 and ending July 25. A sabbatical is a r...
10 years ago
Steve Tibbert Leadership Blog

- I am currently taking a break from his blog... We are in yet another new phase of church life at King's Church London, this time undertaking a major staff ...
10 years ago
Didaskalian

I mentioned circumcision once, but I think I got away with it. - It’s part of human nature to try and hide away embarrassing details about our lives or about what we believe. Whether that’s the baby photos your mum shows...
10 years ago
Simon Allen's blog

Another Rainy Football Season? - It surely couldn't happen again? After the 2012-2013 season being decimated by waterlogged pitches, this season has been just the same! This is so disappo...
10 years ago
beginning in dublin

Robot & Frank: Film Night Sun 2 Mar - Don’t you all wish that you had your own personal robot? Would I get it to wash the dishes first? Or maybe give me a back rub? Or help me rob a bank?! Well...
10 years ago
Luke's reveries

The Birthday Baboon - Three days ago I handed in my masters thesis and, now that I have my life back, I decided that one of the steps towards reintegration into normal life shou...
10 years ago
wordandspirit

Some Book Reviews - This year has been an extremely busy one for me. My main focus at church has been on running a year-long leadership training course, and I’ve also been cre...
10 years ago
Gault Park

Looking forward… - It’s been some time since I last blogged … in part because I’ve been working on and writing the content for our church plant website, which all being well ...
11 years ago
Where Flowers Grow

Prayer - a dumping ground of responsibility? - I’ve heard it said that we shouldn’t pray for that which we can answer ourselves. In other words, don’t be asking God to help someone if you yourself can...
11 years ago
Quite a bit

News - Hello! So I haven't posted here for a long time, and here's one of the reasons: That's right. I've been slightly pre-occupied over the last ...
11 years ago
Stockholm Church Plant

Prayer walking in Stockholm - In a just two weeks time we’ll be hosting a prayer weekend for our church plant. We have two aims: to pray for our city and to pray for our church plant....
11 years ago
The Road to "Elder" ado

Reports from Cwmbran - Two people I trust have been to Cwmbran and I am delighted to read their experiences. Click their names to see their reviews. Graham Pyman leads Jubilee C...
11 years ago
Paul Brown's Blog

A Story for Easter: Sacrifice and forgiveness in WW2 - I first read Ernest Gordon’s fascinating and moving book, “Miracle on the River Kwai” about twenty years ago. (The book had first been published nearly thi...
11 years ago
Street Encounters and Other Stuff!

Are you Sinking? - Over the past few months God has been speaking to me a lot about His grace. What I'm realising is that although I've been a Christian for around 16 years m...
11 years ago
Je ne comprends pas toujours...mais...

The Countdown Begins - In just over a week's time I'll be going into hospital for yet another operation on my knee. This time, it is for the resurfacing of my kneecap. There is a...
11 years ago
Supernatural Living

Supernatural Shopping - I had been praying in the morning before my weekly trip to town, about doing more for God and what was it all about etc, you know the type of thing! I thin...
11 years ago
Ebenezer Agricultural Training Centre

End of Year exams in progress - This week, the 1st and 2nd year apprentices wrote their end of year exam. Spiritual was set and marked by Stephen Manhanga and Simangaliso Ndlovu. Busine...
11 years ago
Tim Simmonds

Planting Churches With Ninja Children - We have been in Manchester for 3 years and 4 months. By we I mean the Simmonds family. The Manchester branch of the Simmonds family includes me (Husband, D...
11 years ago
Matthew Hosier

PARENTING, PART 7 - *The gospel in the messiness of life* One of the best pieces of parenting advice I ever received was at a parenting seminar I attended as a youth worker b...
12 years ago
Sam's blog

I have Moved. New website at www.samuelrich.com -
12 years ago
ChurchVenture

Start disciple-making sooner (and a book I wrote) - Since starting Destination Church in Chicago we have experience the good, the bad and ugly of church planting. We started with a very small team and after...
12 years ago
spirit food

WEAPONS IN THE SANCTUARY - This powerful message from Mahesh Chavda is worth reading. We need unity, to be in God's house and to use the weapons He has made available for us *House...
12 years ago
Silklife Church

Leader: How Charismissional Are You (and Your Church?) - Leader: How Charismissional Are You (and Your Church?) By Keith Gamon A recent set of discussions surrounding this whole debate with other leaders from our...
12 years ago
James The Disciple

Moving - I have decided to revamp and move my weblog. I have left a few posts here that people are still reading and may find useful. All the other posts I have mov...
12 years ago
The Leaders Poole

A Word for Pastors - Here is a recording of a 15 minute talk I gave at a regional pastors gathering talking about some of the highs and lows of what we do, and how we should re...
12 years ago
Matt Giles Music

Hitting hard. - I love those moments when God taps you on the shoulder and says ‘I told you so’. There are points in your life when you realise that there are things tha...
12 years ago
Blog/ Goff Hope | King's Community Church, Norwich | Newfrontiers

Back in Beijing.. - As I write, I am sat just half a mile from Tiananmem Sq having breakfast. It's Saturday and we (I'm traveling with Steve, my son) have just one more day he...
12 years ago
Musings of Doulos

Did He Die for This? - In my last blog post I mentioned the delight of time away on a retreat for some rest and restoration. The place in which I took the retreat is actually the...
12 years ago
Mining for Jems

Chocolate Avalanche Cake - It's a tradition in our family for me and Andy to make the children the biggest, chocolatiest (is that a word?!), most outrageous cakes for their birthdays...
12 years ago
Josh John's blog

Moving on... - To my ever decreasing readership, the time has come to try something new, so onwards into tumblr territory... for some reason i've become frightened to po...
12 years ago
Never Once Did We Ever Walk Alone

One Year On - “Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want...
12 years ago
Evan's Blog

- Psalm 14:1-3 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." So how does the Higgs Boson "dispense the idea of a supernatural creator"? "It predicts an invi...
12 years ago
Living Out Gods Calling...

The Provision of God - Hi friends, I had a lovely surprise this very afternoon as I opened up the post to find a beautiful cheque with my name written on it from the tax office...
12 years ago
Duncan Lee's Blog

AskGodFirst - If you had 60 seconds with God - what would you ask Him? This is a survey conducted by GodFirst and we would really appreciate your participation. We loo...
12 years ago
onethessthree8

Forward motion for men… - A shameless plug for an outstanding event… What is it? Movement is an annual men’s event to inspire and train godly men for influence and leadership in the...
12 years ago
Amos5's Blog

what a week!!! - final Updates from Cambodia Enjoy! http://jubileetocambodia2012.wordpress.com/ http://jubileetocambodia2012.wordpress.com/
12 years ago
Reluctant Risktaking

- How much more can I take? Usually this is a comment of despair; the balance between circumstances and resources seeming strained beyond breaking point. It...
12 years ago
Rubbish At Bible Study: A Support Group

E: 1 Timothy - General Comments - *Please add below any comments on the book's Category, Key Words, Key verses, Literary Style, Emotional Tone, Main Theme(s) and Major People.* *All of this...
12 years ago
CCK Blog

God of love, God of judgement? - This question goes to the very nature and character of God. Why, if God is loving and merciful, is he not be more tolerant and accepting? The Home Office h...
12 years ago
John Lanferman

Last Blog Post... - I want to thank all who are following my posts on my blog site. It’s an honor to be able to share with others who are on Christ’s mission together. I have ...
12 years ago
Bloggings by Sam Poe

The Birth Of Jesus-A Prophetic Awakening - After the death of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, the last Old Testament prophets to write scripture, there were no more recognized prophets in Israel for ...
12 years ago
Worship School Blog

Newday 2011 We Are Yours - The Newday 2011 live album is out now on iTunes £7.95! BUY NOW Track listing: Here For You No One Better We Are Yours Devotion 10,000 Reasons Father Like N...
13 years ago
Been Thinking Little Thoughts

My last mantis of the year? - I found this brown mantis almost a month ago at the arboretum, at my final public bug safari tour of the year. I was hoping I would see at least one more m...
13 years ago
Sex, Sin & Grace

Remind me, why is Jesus better than sex. - Sat here, at a company paid event, surrounded by incredibly attractive female interns, and enough free alcohol to float a ship full of attractive female in...
13 years ago
The Unknown

Nigeria, A hurting land - I just bumped into this article about Nigeria through the Not Ashamed Facebook page. Source: foreignpolicy.com "Last week Plateau State, of which Jos is ...
13 years ago
Cat Lambert

He asked me to marry him. - Well girls... he got down on one knee. It was a beautiful day and he had taken me for a surprise day out to a National Trust property with beautiful garden...
13 years ago
Froud's World

Not to condone or condemn - "For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by o...
13 years ago
The Hunt

Prayer on the Square - Update - Hello friends, As it's been a while since we uploaded any content or testimonies I thought I would upload our new flyer that we will be taking out with us...
13 years ago
Grant - thinking out loud...

The mission of God - Just reading "*total* Church" by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester and this made me think today.... In his book The mission of God, Chris Wright shows that the...
13 years ago
Grace City Blog, Grace City Church

Watching the disaster unfold - Who will ever forget the scenes of utter destruction and force of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I sat spell bound watching the disaster unfold. By P...
13 years ago
The Musing Field

Living and Dying - *'Let me die- lest I die- only let me see Thy face'-* Augustine Tozer comments: *'To Augustine the sight of God inwardly enjoyed was life itself and anyt...
13 years ago
Phil Wilthew's Blog

Highlights of the Term! - Ok, I have been a terrible blogger this past term. Apologies all. But, the term itself has actually been full of some amazing highlights and God moments, s...
13 years ago
The (not so) secret diary of a Worship Leader, aged 34

Church Planting with a difference - Here's a great church planting story from the guys as Act29 network. An Intentionally Missional Lifestyle from Acts 29 Network on Vimeo.
13 years ago
Knowledge & Truth Seeker

Genesis 12 to 14 - Abram is called by God at the start of chapter 12; this is the beginning of the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandaeism, it is said ...
14 years ago
Life of Bryan

Interview with Amie Fox - Amie Fox has been a member at Jubilee Church for eight years and has been on staff for six. This Sunday is her final Sunday with us as she will be moving t...
14 years ago
Hedelightsinme's Blog

The goings on of my heart - There has been so much going on lately that I’m not really sure what to write about but I guess the big thing this week could be summed up in a word. Sur...
14 years ago
Oliver Lawford

The Son of God Goes Forth to War -
14 years ago
Letter From America

It starts.... - My children are 8,6 and 4 but it's amazing how quickly they seem to grow up these days. And each new age/stage of their lives brings its own challenges. Th...
14 years ago
hazzleG

Hardy's Tess - Amongst the books I'm reading currently, one of the most interested has been 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' by Thomas Hardy. My Dad protests whenever Hardy or...
14 years ago
Mark Amos Blog

Some thoughts on the Christology of Karl Rahner - After quite a lot of reading on Rahner's Christology, some threads are beginning to come together. This post will deal in very brief terms with some of the...
14 years ago
Beauty From Ashes

Wives and Husbands - Ephesians 5:21-33 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife...
14 years ago
The Sermon Poole

Messy Church, Part 2: Messed Up Together - 1 Corinthians 1:1-17 In a nutshell: The church in Corinth was a mess. It was made up of people who were acting far too much like citizens of the city of Co...
14 years ago
BackChat

a meaningful ministry... and the best is yet to come! - It wasn’t NewDay (that would start the following summer), but it was a New Frontiers summer youth camping event, with a schedule of worship and preaching a...
14 years ago
The Worship Poole

Get in the Game! - If you have found the past five weeks of notes helpful, you can now download the complete set of notes as a PDF here.
15 years ago
Where The Hell Are You Going?

44 - Josh and Jack both put down their drinks and looked at Stuart, who was sitting there with a stupid grin all over his face. “Just sayin’ boys! Don’t let it ...
15 years ago
musings of a christian salopian

Exam results - Today this years A level results arrive. Again, there is going to be a record amount of passes, which the government will laud as improvement in education ...
15 years ago
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NF Blog #96 Grant Van Schalkwyk

Grant Van Schalkwyk, Newfrontiers elder in Honiton has started blogging. Relocating to Plymouth soon.

Also in the South West...
Andy Cottingham at Honiton.
Ian Jukes about to arrive in Exmouth.
Dave Bish at Exeter.

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New blog, new country, New Zealand

Blog Review: Adrian Birks

Adrian by virtue of his initials, is first up for a blog review. Sean Green made a comment when I first floated the idea, that we all blog ...
A blog about blogs

The more I've blogged the more I've read other blogs and here I'm listing all the blogs I can find from the family of churches I...
New blog, new country, New Zealand

Newfrontiers Bloggers is proud to welcome a new nation to the Newfrontiers worldwide community of bloggers - King's Church youth group f...

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Australian Bloggers

Grace City Blog, Grace City Church

Watching the disaster unfold - Who will ever forget the scenes of utter destruction and force of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I sat spell bound watching the disaster unfold. By P...
13 years ago

Bolivian Blogs

Powells in Santa Cruz

Good Friday- Viernes Santo - On Good Friday we remember the Cross. The death of Jesus Christ, many, many years ago. This one event changed history- and the future. My future, but also ...
4 years ago

Canadian Blogs

Andrew Fountain

The Structure of John 12 - Conclusion of Jesus' public teaching. - - You can view or print a pdf of the structure here: The Structure of John 12 - It contains my translation of the passage, highlighting key w...
4 years ago
Rhys Scott

Fasting - a few tips! - As we come to our Week of Prayer we’d love to encourage you to consider fasting during this period. Coming out of the Christmas season, where we’ve feast...
10 years ago
Of First Importance

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Church Blogs

The Gateway Church

Created for Connection - “It’s not good for man to be alone” was the first negative thing God said about creation. We were created for connection and yet 28% of us don’t have a bes...
1 month ago
GodFirst Blog

How Envato Elements Boosts Your Productivity and Workflow - Craving unlimited creative fuel for your video projects, design ventures, or marketing campaigns? Envato Elements might be your answer. Stepping into thi...
9 months ago
Church Central Birmingham

New Churchcentral Blog - This is no longer the Churchcentral blog! We have a nice shiny, new version. Check it out here: https://churchcentral.wordpress.com
9 years ago
Kings Church London

...by confessing to each other - 'Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.' James 5:16 (N...
9 years ago
Fenway Church Boston

David W's Sabbatical (Summer 2014) - I am very grateful to have been given an opportunity at my request to take a 2-month sabbatical beginning May 25 and ending July 25. A sabbatical is a r...
10 years ago
CCK Life

Movement Review - Day 2 -
11 years ago
Silklife Church

Leader: How Charismissional Are You (and Your Church?) - Leader: How Charismissional Are You (and Your Church?) By Keith Gamon A recent set of discussions surrounding this whole debate with other leaders from our...
12 years ago
Grace City Blog, Grace City Church

Watching the disaster unfold - Who will ever forget the scenes of utter destruction and force of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I sat spell bound watching the disaster unfold. By P...
13 years ago
Church for the City - East London

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Oasis Church, Birmingham

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Christ Church Manchester

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frontiers church

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Jubilee Church Derby

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New Community Church, Sidcup

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Church Planting

Salisbury City Church

Why we're changing our name to Grace Church - This coming Sunday (11th Sept) we switch from being Salisbury City Church to being Grace Church. The reason for the change can be summed up in one word: MI...
8 years ago
beginning in dublin

Robot & Frank: Film Night Sun 2 Mar - Don’t you all wish that you had your own personal robot? Would I get it to wash the dishes first? Or maybe give me a back rub? Or help me rob a bank?! Well...
10 years ago
Stockholm Church Plant

Prayer walking in Stockholm - In a just two weeks time we’ll be hosting a prayer weekend for our church plant. We have two aims: to pray for our city and to pray for our church plant....
11 years ago
CCM Church Planting

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Estonian Blogs

Tim Heath

Six Years in Tallinn––Finding Treasure in the Trash - It's six years to the day since we took the short flight from St Petersburg and landed in Tallinn. It's been a year since I last posted on this blog. Tod...
6 years ago

Group Blogs

Christian Apologetics UK

Mundanity as a barrier to faith - C.S. Lewis’ excellent book *The Screwtape Letters* is a story in which a senior demon (Screwtape) gives advice to a junior demon (Wormwood) about how to s...
9 years ago
Steve Tibbert - Leadership

- I am currently taking a break from his blog... We are in yet another new phase of church life at King's Church London, this time undertaking a major staff ...
10 years ago
Mosaic Leeds Treasure Hunters

A festival of health and healing - I'm on a little journey of discovery into the fascinating UK subculture of health and healing festivals. These events attract visitors interested in develo...
11 years ago
The Leaders Poole

A Word for Pastors - Here is a recording of a 15 minute talk I gave at a regional pastors gathering talking about some of the highs and lows of what we do, and how we should re...
12 years ago
CCK Reason

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Mobilise UK

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PersonalTract.Com

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Student Blog

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Irish blogs

Steve Vaughan

Reflections after 10 years in Dublin - It’s 10 years today since we moved to the Emerald Isle! Our first decade in Dublin is over and it is all change for me and for the church in the new decade...
2 years ago
beginning in dublin

Robot & Frank: Film Night Sun 2 Mar - Don’t you all wish that you had your own personal robot? Would I get it to wash the dishes first? Or maybe give me a back rub? Or help me rob a bank?! Well...
10 years ago

Musicians and Bands

Matt Blick

Interview: Mistakes & Magic – Fifty Five Stories Down with Matt Blick - Nicholas Tozier of the Lyric Writer’s Workroom interviewed me recently about my new album Fifty Five Stories Down (available here). What artists inspired y...
5 years ago
Matt Giles

Hitting hard. - I love those moments when God taps you on the shoulder and says ‘I told you so’. There are points in your life when you realise that there are things tha...
12 years ago

New Zealand Blogs

The King's Youth

Searching

South African Blogs

Lex Loizides

The God of Wonders - 'Waves of power often overwhelmed them,' and 'O God, be merciful unto Dave the bully!', and 'The morals of whole communities were vastly improved..' Some o...
1 month ago
starting on saturdays

22 January - My sweet mama would have been 52 today. It’s been 11 years since she squeezed my hands reassuringly as she always used to do. I realise that I’ve missed he...
8 years ago
Luke's reveries

The Birthday Baboon - Three days ago I handed in my masters thesis and, now that I have my life back, I decided that one of the steps towards reintegration into normal life shou...
10 years ago

Spanish Blogs

Salisbury City Church

Why we're changing our name to Grace Church - This coming Sunday (11th Sept) we switch from being Salisbury City Church to being Grace Church. The reason for the change can be summed up in one word: MI...
8 years ago

Swedish Blogs

Phil Whittall

Midsummer - [image: Midsummer] Today is Midsummer’s Eve and the beginning of the BIGGEST celebration in the Swedish calendar. Yes bigger than Christmas, yes bigger th...
4 months ago
Max Holtz

Justin Abraham does it again - The first and only time I had a real heaven encounter was when Justin Abraham took me to heaven. I was at his Encounter School and he was talking about how...
7 years ago
Stockholm Church Plant

Prayer walking in Stockholm - In a just two weeks time we’ll be hosting a prayer weekend for our church plant. We have two aims: to pray for our city and to pray for our church plant....
11 years ago
Dan Håland

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UK Blogs

Jon Cressey

Unpacking Matthew 8:1-5 - It’s a well-known, quick story—you won’t fall asleep reading it. It’s the kind of story where there was this, there was that, and then it was all over. Per...
1 day ago
Mark Landreth Smith

Books that shaped me #2 Ordering Your Private World by Gordon MacDonald - Before the best selling *The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry* by John Marc Cromer there was this book in the 1980s : *Ordering Your* *Private World*. It was ...
2 days ago
Liam Thatcher

Freedom (Romans 6) - On Sunday I spoke at Wantage Community Church as part of their series on Romans. We looked at chapter 6 and considered the subject of freedom. What differe...
3 days ago
Adrian Warnock

Is Trump Fueling the End-Times Rebellion of the Church? - Over 80% of Evangelical Christians in the USA voted for Donald Trump. He, not Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States. At the end of...
1 week ago
Adrian Holloway

At New Life Church, Milton Keynes - Privileged to be invited to do an apologetics training evening for New Life Church, Milton Keynes. I first spoke at this church on a Sunday 23 years ago,...
3 weeks ago
Jeff Featherstone (Halifax, UK)

You can tell a lot about a church by whether anyone speaks to you - A few years ago I visited two churches in Geneva on the same day, and the differences between them were striking. Both were churches planted in recent y...
5 weeks ago
Emma Dawson

Dumb Phone - Getting ready for the new school term, working out what we already have, what can be passed down from sibling to sibling, and what needs to be budgeted f...
2 months ago
grahamcrosbie.com

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3 months ago
Eric Gaudion

Is Revenge a Dish Best Served Cold? - 'Revenge is a dish best served cold' is a saying attributed to a French novel of the 18th Century, but frequently quoted in the 21st. It probably came ou...
6 months ago
LouLou Morris

Of Deep Darkness and Deep Joy - The last nine months have been a bit of a struggle, with health scares and bereavement. I have become way behind on both practice and writing, and a mon...
7 months ago
clairemusters

Christmas Voices - I am delighted to share my latest book with you: Christmas Voices. I can’t believe that I forgot to post about it here! It is a wonderful book filled wit...
11 months ago
Marcus Tutt's Blog

Music Maker - The recent AI conversations I’ve heard and images I’ve seen have been so impressive that I wondered if anyone had created AI music using the same technolog...
2 years ago
Simon Benham

My Blog is Moving to a New Home - I wanted to let you know that my blog is moving to a new home. After many years on Google's blogger site it is moving to be integrated into our Kerith we...
2 years ago
Richard Walker

Sermon Excerpt: The Face of Christ and the Life of the Soul - What is the soul? It’s the part of us which is eternal and enables us to know and experience God at the deepest and most permanent place of our being. ...
3 years ago
Samuel Rich

Strengthening Families To Prevent Trafficking - I will never forget the bars on those windows. In the winter of 2013, I was traveling through Eastern Europe while filming the documentary Lost Kites. My t...
3 years ago
The Wendy House

Our Christian Heritage - One evening in 1956, Terry’s sister came home and had a chat with him. “I’ve become a Christian”, she announced. Terry wasn’t interested. “Aren’t we all Ch...
3 years ago
Luke Davydaitis

Vaccines - The arrival of vaccines for Covid-19 has been hailed by most people as a cause for hope and rejoicing. At last, the newspaper headlines says, a lig...
3 years ago
thequietstreet

cornish pasties and raspberry jam - After watching The Great British Bake Off recently, the episode where they were tasked with producing Cornish Pasties, I knew I had to make some that more ...
4 years ago
Robert Mason

Struggling with Struggling - Life is a struggle.. Anyone who has taken an intentional breath notices the resistance of their flesh to the desire to inflate one's lungs. It requires exe...
4 years ago
NewSong40

A city for life - This year when I was invited to write for Scripture Union’s Daily Bread Bible reading notes, I was assigned my favourite book in the Bible: Nehemiah. I lov...
5 years ago
Matt Blick

Interview: Mistakes & Magic – Fifty Five Stories Down with Matt Blick - Nicholas Tozier of the Lyric Writer’s Workroom interviewed me recently about my new album Fifty Five Stories Down (available here). What artists inspired y...
5 years ago
Graham Pyman

Cambodia update – Thursday morning - So, this is the first time I’ve had a chance to sit down and write an update since Sunday afternoon! So, here’s a brief summary, in case you’re interested…...
5 years ago
Louisa Collington

Another imperfect offering: His gentleness makes me great. - A few weeks ago, I wrote about the God of the delay. I wrote in the midst of a somewhat cloudy delay, though my vision was incredibly clear; God wasn’t goi...
6 years ago
Catarina Benham

Guest Blog: Esther in Indonesia - I'm delighted to welcome Esther Ross-Watson to my Blog today! She is a dearly loved member of our Kerith family. She and her late husband Michael served as...
6 years ago
Kevin Gill

Ruth - We have been looking at Ruth recently on Sunday mornings and three over-arching themes continually speak to me. The first theme is grace. We know that Elim...
6 years ago
Green Christian

Advent Day 4: After the Beginning - Earlier in this series, we talked about the start of the world, and how this relates to the Christmas story. Today, we’re looking a bit further on in the s...
6 years ago
Josh John

Easter Playlist 2017 - If you want to view this playlist/subscribe to this playlist, direct link to the playlist here
7 years ago
Scott Taylor

God's Healing Power - On Sunday evening I had a great conversation with one of our young ladies at our 6pm meeting, so I asked her to write it down: "For about 10 years, suffere...
7 years ago
Phil Moore

You may have noticed that I’ve not blogged here for a... - You may have noticed that I’ve not blogged here for a while. There’s a reason for that. I have moved my blogging home to *Everyday Voices*. I’m now blogg...
7 years ago
stevangelical

Top Films Seen In 2016 - Following the cliched tradition, here’s my round-up of the sixteen best films I’ve seen for the first time this year, both new and old. There are many I’ve...
7 years ago
Gordon Watson

National Adoption Week - It is currently National Adoption Week (17th to 23rd October 2016) and all across the UK various agencies and local authorities have been championing the c...
8 years ago
Irene Mooney

SAIL ON SILVER GIRL...... - My goodness ...how long has it been since I was last blogging and posting ....way too long !! So much happened and its going to be almost impossible to ge...
8 years ago
Sean Green

Luca Anderson - I'm guessing that by now many in RFC will have heard the tragic news that Luca Anderson died on Sunday night (3rd July). His death was unexpected and as ye...
8 years ago
The Failed Atheist Blog

4 reasons why every Christian should be pro-life - I wrote an article a few weeks ago for Premier Christianity Blog which was picked up by Lifenews.com and shared a couple of thousand times and can be viewe...
8 years ago
the blue fish project (dave bish)

Every story whispers his name - Since my first son was very young Sally Lloyd-Jones' The Jesus Storybook Bible has been staple reading in our house. We've probably read it 60-70 times t...
8 years ago
nathan the alien

An Attempt at Objectivity - As George Osborne’s first Conservative only Government budget was being delivered yesterday my Twitter and Facebook feeds began to be filled with anger, pa...
8 years ago
Craig Mackay

Feb 10th and 12th... - February 10th and 12th come around with unceasing regularity (once a year, oddly enough!)....we've had a few tears this week. It's now 6 years for me and ...
8 years ago
My Theo-Blogy

You’re Being Watched… - The Western world has been enjoying the “Elf on the Shelf” phenomenon for the last few years now. But just in case you’ve missed it, let me read you an exc...
8 years ago
Adam Bream

Number 10 - I don’t often post on this blog anymore, but lastnight something fairly noteworthy happened. I became the 10th Elder of Everyday Church – a fairly sizeable...
8 years ago
OMG: occasional muffled grunts .......... ................ from the old bloke in the corner

Re-present - A Creation Poem based on The Creation Poem (Inspired by musing on the rhythmic patterns in Genesis 1, which make use of these words: God / Said / Let there...
9 years ago
Luke Wood

GBS Update: Friday 19th June 2015 - These blog updates began five years ago. I had been very ill in hospital and, being Christians, we had friends around the world who wanted to pray up-t...
9 years ago
Lastword Publications

A hardening of the heart - A lazy day, sprawled out on the beach, inhaling the sweet scent of summer and the excited chatter of children. High in the cloudless sky the sun shone brig...
9 years ago
Paul LePage

The Maze Runner (2014) - Watch Movie The Maze Runner High QualityDownload The Maze Runner For Free with duration 113 Min and released on 2014-09-19 and MPAA rating is 145. [image...
10 years ago
Gospel Sunshine

New Blog! - Hello! The new blog is finally here! I am quite excited… so please do head over to my new blog. There are some posts over there which are from this blog, b...
10 years ago
The Freedom/Guilt Equation

Walk The Line Festival 2014 - We’re playing on Friday 10th October at The Quaich in Cheltenham…
10 years ago
Grace Foster

Four and Seven - New adventures lie ahead of this little lady. Four short years at home have gone by far too quickly and her time to start the school journey has come. ...
10 years ago
Pete Cornford (Ealing)

The Nations - I love living in Ealing - it is so diverse - there are 172 nationalities that reside here! I so enjoy that Redeemer is made up from people from around the ...
10 years ago
Didaskalian

I mentioned circumcision once, but I think I got away with it. - It’s part of human nature to try and hide away embarrassing details about our lives or about what we believe. Whether that’s the baby photos your mum shows...
10 years ago
Simon Allen

Another Rainy Football Season? - It surely couldn't happen again? After the 2012-2013 season being decimated by waterlogged pitches, this season has been just the same! This is so disappo...
10 years ago
Dan Rodger

How to create a hedonistic, porn addicted and useless generation of young men - I've pretty much given up on blogging longer posts any-more and due to time restraints I'm just gonna go old-school and use my blog for some of my own pers...
10 years ago
wordandspirit

Some Book Reviews - This year has been an extremely busy one for me. My main focus at church has been on running a year-long leadership training course, and I’ve also been cre...
10 years ago
Gault Park

Looking forward… - It’s been some time since I last blogged … in part because I’ve been working on and writing the content for our church plant website, which all being well ...
11 years ago
Where Flowers Grow

Prayer - a dumping ground of responsibility? - I’ve heard it said that we shouldn’t pray for that which we can answer ourselves. In other words, don’t be asking God to help someone if you yourself can...
11 years ago
Andy Lowe

News - Hello! So I haven't posted here for a long time, and here's one of the reasons: That's right. I've been slightly pre-occupied over the last ...
11 years ago
Dave Matthias

Reports from Cwmbran - Two people I trust have been to Cwmbran and I am delighted to read their experiences. Click their names to see their reviews. Graham Pyman leads Jubilee C...
11 years ago
Tim Simmonds

Planting Churches With Ninja Children - We have been in Manchester for 3 years and 4 months. By we I mean the Simmonds family. The Manchester branch of the Simmonds family includes me (Husband, D...
11 years ago
Nicolas Ferguson

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Terry Virgo

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Feeding 5,000 is no picnic...

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The Radical Life !

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Godfirst

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David Jones

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Mark Rushworth (Sheffield)

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John Dutton

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Student Blog

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USA Blogs

Steve Tipton

- Early in my life as a new believer I lived in a Christian commune called the Lighthouse Ranch. It was a five acre former coastguard station located on ...
3 weeks ago
Fenway Church Boston

David W's Sabbatical (Summer 2014) - I am very grateful to have been given an opportunity at my request to take a 2-month sabbatical beginning May 25 and ending July 25. A sabbatical is a r...
10 years ago
Matt Sweetman

Start disciple-making sooner (and a book I wrote) - Since starting Destination Church in Chicago we have experience the good, the bad and ugly of church planting. We started with a very small team and after...
12 years ago

Zambia

Project Tehila

Happy New Year - Hi Tehila friends I cannot quite believe that we have come to the end of 2019! From all of us at Tehila Zambia and Tehila UK, we want to wish you and your ...
4 years ago