It's been called the ‘disease of the 21st century’. Depression is on the increase, but with ignorance about the disease still widespread, it can be difficult to know how to help a friend who is suffering from it. In this honest article, an anonymous Briefing reader offers some advice.The other
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I knew practically nothing about homosexuality when my husband of 10 years told me the shocking truth that he would prefer tobe in a relationship with a man. He hadn't ‘acted out’ or been unfaithful to me in practice but I wasn't what he wanted. I felt like the poor
A significant percentage of the Australian population cannot sing. We can't carry a tune to save our lives. How many of us are there? Based on the singing voices I hear around me in church, I would guess we account for at least half the population.Now, it doesn't matter how
Reproduced from Evangelicals Now, February 1993. Used with permission.With its building desperately over-crowded, the Round Church had to rethink from the Bible such issues as the purpose of a building, the meaning of worship, the purpose of meeting—and the nature of the church. This is more than the story of
Inspired by an article in Briefing #51 called ‘Starving our Children’, one of our readers sent in this Lead Balloon.Lead balloons: ideas only slightly too outrageous to be taken seriously.I really do want the best for my kids; it would be inhuman, un-Australian, even ungodly, not to want that. After
So far, we have looked at the relationship between the testaments in general and as it applies to church. As a further case study, we will look briefly at how the relationship between the testaments affects our view of the law and, in particular, the Sabbath.The place of the Law
What should Christians do when they meet together? What relationship should there be between the leaders of a congregation and the flock? What is the essence of Christian ministry? What place should ‘worship’ have in the Christian meeting?These questions, and others like them, have divided Christendom for centuries. Roman Catholics,