Pastoral care flows out of God’s grace and the Christian love and integrity which should follow. Being must come before doing.
Does your group struggle to start and end at the agreed-upon times? Here are some reasons to stay on time, and strategies to help you do it.
When you preach, does it sound like you're reading an essay? Or does your minister struggle to get his mouth around his written notes?
The current trend in society is for people to deny difference in an effort to squash inequality. Mike Allen argues that difference is something that shouldn’t be ignored, but instead celebrated.
Whether biblically mandated or not, there are benefits in having a day of rest and of setting Sunday apart as special.
‘Ministry’ in Ephesians 4:12 does not mean ‘service’; it is fundamentally a matter of ‘bringing’ the saving gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to people.
Now the first reaction to the title of this piece might be “What! How can anyone say they stand perfectly obedient before God?” On one level, this is the right reaction. How can anyone claim such a thing, knowing the place of sin in the human heart?
How do we use the Bible to reason with unbelievers when, on the one hand, they don’t recognize it as a valid source, while, on the other hand, it actually is the source, whether they recognize it or not?
Do you take centrestage in your life? Are you the award-winner author of your story? Jean Williams shares the uncomfortable but comforting truth she's learnt about whose story she's in.