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Addressing sexuality with teenagers

  • Michael Guyer
  • 22 January 2018

We are far too often late to the conversation about sexuality with our teenagers, and reactionary once we speak up.

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Planning growth group content for the year

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 17 January 2018

Our week-by-week plan will inevitably have to change on the fly as studies run long or nights get cancelled, but the planning we do at the start of the year is indispensable.

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This is not a real church

  • Tony Payne
  • 15 January 2018

Can we assume that the churches of the New Testament were real Christian churches, lacking nothing essential? If so, what could we ‘lop off’ our current practice of church life and still have a genuine Christian assembly (or ‘church’)?

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Seduced by a comfortable life

  • Tanya Ling
  • 10 January 2018

Most of us reading this have privileges that other people around the world only dream of. These are good gifts from God, and we ought to thank him. But has it become too much of a good thing?

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Reading into discipleship: A better response to life's difficulties

  • Laura Denny
  • 8 January 2018

The right books can remind us of who God is and what he has done, and keep our eyes on the eternal prize that has been laid up for us.

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Sowing the seeds of the gospel for generations to come

  • Ben Pfahlert
  • 4 January 2018

Nothing is more important than taking the gospel and passing it on to the next generation (2 Tim 2:2). What is the best way for you to have the maximum impact for Jesus in your life?

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Who rules: The lay or the clergy?

  • Mike Leite
  • 3 January 2018

Since the beginning of the church there has been unhealthy tension between the shepherd and the sheep, the appointed leaders and those they lead.

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Profile of a vine worker: Chris Drombetta

  • Marty Sweeney
  • 1 January 2018

Commit to infuse vine work into your regular responsibilities, whether this means in your committee meetings, family car rides, one-to-one meetings, setting up chairs or counselling.

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How to cope with going back to work after holidays

  • Craig Josling
  • 27 December 2017

Having a big picture view of life puts work in perspective for me. It helps me not to worry too much but to try to be content and to take each day as it comes, knowing that heaven isn’t too far away.

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I’m dreaming of a black Christmas

  • Tony Payne
  • 25 December 2017

The truth of Christmas comes in a strange dream, via a classic article from the past.

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