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.

Who will be king? (Chinese)

  • Tony Payne
  • 16 May 2013

This version of the Who will be king? tract, is a faithful translation into Chinese, using simplified Chinese characters.

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Six Steps to Reading Your Bible

  • Tony Payne
  • 27 March 2013

This six session, video-based course is ideal for small groups, and teaches the basics of the how and why of reading the Bible.

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The Course of Your Life

  • Tony Payne
  • 20 March 2013

Life changing course: how can we teach and train Christians to catch this captivating vision of being a disciple-making disciple in every aspect of our lives?

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Islam in our backyard: a novel argument (ebook: .epub or Kindle .mobi files)

  • Tony Payne
  • 2 November 2012

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. (ebook)

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The Essential Jesus (ebook: .epub or Kindle .mobi files)

  • Tony Payne
  • 5 April 2011

Note: This ebook is free, but due to limitations with our shopping cart software, free ebook purchases have to be processed by our customer service staff prior to being available for download. You will be notified by email when the file(s) can be downloaded. The Essential Jesus combines the strengths of Two ways to live with the powerful story of the Gospel of Luke, to offer "the dream evangelistic product". Now available as an electronic book for iPad, Kindle and other ebook devices.

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The future of books

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 April 2011

These are troubling times in the book business. As I sit down to write this month's Resource Talk, the dust is still settling after the financial collapse of the owner of two of Australia's largest bookselling chains. The management is blaming a mix of factors: the high Australian dollar, the

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Three big questions for your small groups

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 February 2011

In recent months, Col Marshall and I have been running some workshops based on The Trellis and the Vine, and during the workshops we spent a bit of time talking about small groups—about why we have them (or don't), the part they normally play in church life, how we train

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What the guru learned

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 February 2011

It’s amazing how easily one becomes a guru these days. Just do the following: a) get together with an old friend and write down a few basic and hardly earth-shattering thoughts about the nature of church life and ministry; b) publish these ideas as a book and wait for it

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Where the road begins

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 January 2011

I have always thought that I had a pretty good understanding of Roman Catholicism, not just of its history and doctrine, but of how Catholic people ‘tick’. Growing up as a non-Catholic at a Roman Catholic high school, all my mates were Catholic, all my teachers were Catholic, and all

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Two ways to change a culture

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 December 2010

How do you change the culture of a church?We talked about this question quite a bit at the ‘Trellis and Vine Workshops’ that Col Marshall and I had the privilege of leading recently in the US. It was an issue that many of the pastors at the workshops felt keenly.Take

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