Tony Payne

Tony started Matthias Media back in 1988. He has raised a family of five (with his wife Alison), completed a theology degree at Moore Theological College, and written or co-written numerous books and ministry resources—including The Trellis and the Vine, Fatherhood, Guidance and the Voice of God, The Tony Payne Collection, and The Course of Your Life. He is also the Director of the Centre for Christian Living at Moore College, and is close to completing his PhD.

Tough Questions from The Aussie Bible

  • Tony Payne
  • 16 October 2009

A set of five evangelistic studies, all based in Mark's Gospel, designed to present the Christian gospel in a one-to-one Bible study setting. This version interacts with the highly popular The Aussie Bible (by Kel Richards).

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Fatherhood: what it is and what it's for

  • Tony Payne
  • 16 October 2009

Essential reading for all fathers, bringing some much needed clarity, help and biblical perspective to not only defining the role but fulfilling it. (Free seminar material available.)

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Who Will be King? (Two Ways to Live for kids)

  • Tony Payne
  • 16 October 2009

A colourfully illustrated and engaging adaptation of Two ways to live for children. Sensitively written with simplified language and concepts. Read the online version.

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Islam in our backyard: a novel argument

  • Tony Payne
  • 16 October 2009

This very readable book explores the core beliefs of Islam as well as the main varieties of Islamic groups, and how Islamic beliefs challenge our Western secularism. (134 pages)

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The Man Who Makes a Difference (leader's manual)

  • Tony Payne
  • 16 October 2009

Leader's notes for running a group of men through the Man Who Makes a Difference studies—Bible studies on Ephesians especially written for men.

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For those with eyes to see

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 October 2009

It starts with trying to read the microwave instructions on the back of the packet in the kitchen, and having to move into some better light. Then you notice you're habitually setting the zoom in Microsoft Word to 200 per cent. The crunch comes when it starts to affect the

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Fighting the new fight

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 September 2009

If you were a youngish Christian in the 1980s, it is almost certain that, at some point, someone would have pressed a copy of John White's The Fight into your hands and urged you earnestly to read it. It was simply one of the standard Christian books of the era,

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The natural salesman

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 September 2009

There were only three of us in Bible study group the other morning, and the other two guys were both in sales—one in property and one in software. We were talking about how to encourage other people with the message of the Bible (whether Christian or non-Christian), about why we

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Gospel Convictions: Revised

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 September 2009

When we distributed a draft version of our ‘Gospel Convictions’ statement in our 21st birthday issue (in April this year), we hoped that our sharp-eyed, Bible-tuned Briefing community would help us improve the statement with their feedback. We haven’t been disappointed! Our sincere thanks to all who took the time

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The Briefing, to go

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 August 2009

Back in the mists of time, before mobile phones, before the internet, even before Michael Jackson's Thriller, there were ‘The SOCM Papers’. SOCM, which stood for ‘School of Christian Ministry’, was a leadership training programme that ran for two hours on a Tuesday evening at the University of New

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