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The heart of the matter: The being of pastoral care

  • Sally Sims
  • 3 November 2016

Pastoral care flows out of God’s grace and the Christian love and integrity which should follow. Being must come before doing.

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Keeping growth groups on time

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 31 October 2016

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.

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Failing fast

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 February 2017

Editorial from Vine Journal 5.

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Good to great: Speaking how you speak, not how you write

  • James Harricks
  • 24 October 2016

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?

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Delighting in difference

  • Mike Allen
  • 20 October 2016

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.

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Suggestions from a Scottish Sabbath

  • Kirsten McKinlay
  • 17 October 2016

Whether biblically mandated or not, there are benefits in having a day of rest and of setting Sunday apart as special.

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The work of ministry in Ephesians 4:12

  • Lionel Windsor
  • 13 October 2016

‘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.

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Thank God that we stand perfectly obedient before him!

  • Mike Leite
  • 10 October 2016

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?

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Using the Bible to reason with unbelievers

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 6 October 2016

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?

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The hero of my story

  • Jean Williams
  • 3 October 2016

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.

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