Tara Sing

Tara Sing and her husband Soong both serve at St Barnabas Bossley Park, in Sydney Australia. She loves spending time with people, eating, organizing things, and enjoying the sunshine.

When reading the Bible isn’t working

  • Tara Sing
  • 5 November 2018

There are hundreds of Bible reading plans to choose from. I know because I have searched them, I have tried them, and I have failed them.

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Real friendships don’t look like sitcoms

  • Tara Sing
  • 22 November 2017

When we base our expectations on the friends in our favourite television show, we are left disappointed because real relationships are much messier than we’d like.

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Ten misconceptions about practising hospitality

  • Tara Sing
  • 10 July 2017

One of the marks of a Christian is practising hospitality. Whenever it’s mentioned in the New Testament, it is assumed as a staple part of the Christian life. However, lots of people don’t show hospitality to others.

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When ministry is unglamorous

  • Tara Sing
  • 16 February 2017

When Jesus says we need to take up our cross daily, he’s not just talking about enduring pain and hardship from the world (although that needs to happen). We need to die to ourselves daily, completely, which includes dying to our dreams of what it will look like to serve God, both now and in the future.

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Four truths to combat loneliness at church

  • Tara Sing
  • 16 January 2017

We've all felt it: that sad feeling that everyone is in a conversation but me, everyone was invited but me, everyone has someone sitting next to them except me...

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Nine things Titus 2 women do

  • Tara Sing
  • 14 November 2016

Women are encouraged in the book of Titus to be active in looking after the next generation, teaching and modelling to them how to be a woman of God.

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What your church needs to know about church

  • Tara Sing
  • 22 May 2015

People love watching and talking about trends. Trends in the stock market, trends in prices, trends in culture, and also trends in churches. And apparently, the trend for churches in 2015 is not a good one. If the predictions are true, it looks like things are going downhill: Your

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Add one or two

  • Tara Sing
  • 7 April 2015

I follow a very simple, and quite catchy, rhyme when it comes to training my youth group girls to do ministry: Do what you do, just add one or two. It was originally suggested to me by a friend at church and has stuck in my

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Talking Small Talk

  • Tara Sing
  • 30 December 2014

In my last article on small talk, I established that there is a need for small talk in our churches alongside spiritual conversations. Both need to be used in careful, thoughtful and loving ways in order to build up the body of believers. Small talk is a great

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What disciple-making is not

  • Tara Sing
  • 23 December 2014

Phrases like disciple-making can carry a lot of baggage. Everybody has an opinion or an idea of what it means to disciple someone and what it looks like in practice. Sometimes it leads people to say “Disciple-making? Oh, I could never do that” or “It's not my role to

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