Tim Grant

Tim Grant is the pastor of Grace Christian Community, a church plant in the east of Melbourne. Tim is married to Belinda and they have three children. Previously Tim has worked as a town planner in local government, as well as doing ministry training with AFES and at Moore Theological College.

The word of God and the academy

  • Tim Grant
  • 29 July 2016

Does the Bible belong in the hands of the professors and theologians only? Or is it for the uneducated parishioner and the local church? Tim Grant examines the role of the academy in relation to the church and God’s word.

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The uncomfortable exercise of Bible reading

  • Tim Grant
  • 13 July 2016

When it comes to reading the Bible, we have a big problem. That’s why, as Tim Grant explains, we should expect God’s word to chafe.

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On preaching the Psalms

  • Tim Grant
  • 4 April 2016

The Book of Psalms is a terrific part of the Bible, yet it’s regularly mishandled from the pulpit. Tim Grant has four helpful tips for improving your preaching on them.

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The priesthood

  • Tim Grant
  • 4 February 2016

A number of my friends were recently ‘priested’. They took part in a sacred ceremony while wearing strange garments and, standing before the bishop of the land, were consecrated as priests in the church of God.

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Tips for being a false teacher

  • Tim Grant
  • 26 October 2015

So you’ve decided to forgo the straight and narrow and teach things that are… well… not strictly speaking true. It makes sense; after all, surely we’re all a little bored by the same Christian message year after year, millennia after millennia.

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Calling to ministry

  • Tim Grant
  • 3 July 2015

Regularly when I sit down with someone, they’ll use the phrase ‘called to ministry’. I don’t have a dislike of this phrase, it can be very useful—only when most people use it, it isn’t.

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