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This week's guest is Rev. Alex MacDonald.
 

Alex was brought up in the Highlands of Scotland and is a former Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, having served as minister in Bishopbirggs Free Church, Bon Accord Free Church and Buccleuch Free Church.
 


This week's theme is "A Life in Ministry"
 


Topics include:
Highland Clearances
 Tackling Social Issues in Preaching
 Right to Life
 Christians in Politics
 

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Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

This week's guest is Confex Makhalira.
 

Confex Makhalira is an ordained minister and a missionary of Mission to the World (MTW). Currently, he is serving as a pastor and church planter of Christ Presbyterian Church in Blantyre, Malawi. He is married to Mwai, and together they have two amazing daughters.
 


This week's theme is "The Church in Africa"
 


Topics include:
African Presbyterianism 
David Livingstone
Prosperity Gospel
African Perspectives on Theology 
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

This week's guest is Anne MacDonald.
 

Anne is the Student and Young Adults Worker at Bon Accord Free Church in Aberdeen. 
 


This week's theme is "Students and Young People"
 


Topics include:
 Women in ministry
 When to employ a youth worker 
 Issues facing young people today
 How do we make disciples? 
 Finding a balance between church service and family life
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

This week's guest is Thomas Davis.
 

Thomas Davis is a minister in the Free Church of Scotland who has served as an assistant at St Columba’s Free Church in Edinburgh and is now minister of Carloway Free Church on the Isle of Lewis.
 
He is also a visiting lecturer in Systematic Theology and Church History at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. He is married to Una, and they have three children: Tom, John and Annie.
 


This week's theme is "Training and Equipping"
 


Topics include:
 How important is training in the church?
 Is an apprenticeship model appropriate? 
 Can ministry really be taught? 
 Are ministers professionals?
 Learning from other professional models
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

This week's guest is Melissa Kruger.
 

Melissa serves as vice president of discipleship programming at The Gospel Coalition. She is the author of The Envy of Eve: Finding Contentment in a Covetous World, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood, In All Things: A Nine-Week Devotional Bible Study on Unshakeable Joy, Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests, Wherever You Go, I Want You to Know, and His Grace Is Enough. Her husband, Mike, is the president of Reformed Theological Seminary, and they have three children.
 
She writes at Wits End, hosted by The Gospel Coalition.
 
You can follow her on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.
 


This week's theme is "Mentoring"
 


Topics include:
 Coaching vs Mentoring
 Mentoring and the local church
 Mentoring generations and genders
 Becoming a mentor
 Developing a church prayer culture
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/

Join us on this week's episode as we welcome Rev. Callum Macleod.
 

 

Callum is the minister of Shawbost Free Church in the Isle of Lewis and the Principal Clerk of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.
 


This week's theme is "Ministry Life"
 


Topics include:
 Entering ministry later in life
 Confirming the call to ministry
 Community ministry
 Maintaining our identity in Christ
 Can revival give a false sense of spiritual energy? 
 Commitment to the Confessions
 

Official Site: https://www.freechurch.org/
Healthy Gospel Church Vision: https://freechurch.org/healthy-gospel-church/