Resources
Imprint provides resources to further its mission of training pastors and churches to develop a healthy ecclesiology. These include print resources, training videos, written article, and an audio podcast.
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Training Opportunities
Purposeful Publishing
Imprint is not primarily a publisher, but a ministry committed to training pastors, with the goal of strengthening the church in Africa. Trustworthy, biblical resources are, however, an indispensable tool in this regard. To this end, Imprint publishes material that furthers its vision of training pastors, and makes the resources that it publishes available through its store.
Preaching Workshops
The Charles Simeon Trust preaching workshop is an opportunity for pastors and church leaders to strengthen their expositional skills. These workshops provide practical training to increase participants’ confidence and ability in rightly handling God’s word, allowing participants to grow in their conviction of the power of the Scriptures and their eagerness to teach it to their people.
Weekenders
The annual weekender is a partnership between Imprint and Brackenhurst Baptist Church, where church leaders from across Africa are given opportunity to experience the life and inner workings of a healthy church. It provides a model by which church leaders can evaluate their own churches and observe and discuss the biblical and practical dynamics of a healthy church.
Conferences
Imprint hosts occasional conferences and workshops to help pastors and their congregations grow in healthy, gospel-centred living. These conferences aim to facilitate spiritual growth, foster Christian community, and offer training and teaching in practical areas of the Christian and local church life. Conferences are by no means the primary focus of Imprint and only serve to further its training goals.
Imprint Out Loud Podcast
Episode #91—Examining Elder Candidates: Six Qualities that Make a Faithful Shepherd
When it comes to identifying and appointing elders, most churches rightly turn to 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. The qualifications listed there are the non-negotiable. But is there more to the discernment process than checking a list? Recently, Rob Weddell, the pastor of...
Bonus Episode #13—On This Rock: Petra, Petros, and the Foundation of the Church
Matthew 16:13–20 contains one of the most contested sentences in all of Scripture. When Jesus tells Peter that he will build his church “on this rock” (v. 18), what exactly does he mean? Is Christ the “rock”? Peter’s confession? Peter himself? The question is not...
Episode #90—Understanding Sin: Weakness, Folly, and Defiance
Few doctrines are more central to Christian discipleship than the doctrine of sin. We use the word frequently, sometimes casually, but sometimes our casualness betrays a misunderstanding of the depth of the biblical concept.The standard definition is a good place to...
Episode #89—Where the Battle Rages: Preaching the Text to the Moment
Martin Luther once wrote: “If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God, except that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing...
Episode #88—The Gift of Boredom: Rest, Idleness, and the Wisdom of Doing Nothing
We live in an age that is deeply averse to boredom. Between smartphones, streaming services, podcasts, and social media, every moment can be—must be!—filled with something. The queue, the commute, and the quiet evening at home are now all colonised by content. But is...
Episode #87—Growing Old in the Church: Finishing Well to the Glory of God
Ageing is an unavoidable reality. Each birthday reminds us that time moves steadily forward. But in the Christian life, ageing is more than a biological process—it is a deeply spiritual one. It raises important questions: What does it mean to grow old faithfully? What...
Written Articles
Loving Strange Souls: Understanding Christian Hospitality
There is a well-known story about a lawyer who came to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” The lawyer answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart...
Reading Without Listening: How Scriptural Familiarity Can Deafen Us to God’s Voice
In the novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck says concerning one of its characters, Liza Hamilton, that her total intellectual association was with the Bible…. In that one book she had her history and her poetry, her knowledge of peoples and things, her ethics, her...
Discipleship by Example: What Are They Learning as They Watch Your Life?
“Do as I say, not as I do.” This is a phrase, I would wager, that most of us have thought or said at some stage or another. We realise that we often do not live up to our ideals, whether they be moral, physical or otherwise. Part of being human is falling short. We...
When Money Becomes Your Life: A Call to Godly Contentment
One of my favourite stage plays is A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. As the play unfolds, we follow Walter Lee Younger (35), our protagonist, as he is driven to the verge of insanity by the pursuit of a dream that he himself cannot put into words. He has only...
Trust God and Keep Your Powder Dry
“Trust God and keep your powder dry” is a phrase originally attributed to Oliver Cromwell, although it first appears in written form in a poem by Lieutenant-Colonel William Blacker, entitled “Oliver’s Advice.” The words are lifted from one stanza from that poem: The...
Letter to a Future Imprint Intern
Dear Future Intern, My wife, daughter, and I moved to South Africa recently. We were sent here to church plant and are beginning our time by completing the Imprint internship at Brackenhurst Baptist Church (BBC). It is mid-July as I write—six months into the ten-month...
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