• Tara Sing
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• 11 September 2014

Home groups start off as a bunch of strangers gathering together to read the Bible, but the hope is that they will grow to be more. Our ideal home groups are places where people care for one another, they are open and honest with each other and they do

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• Murray Campbell
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• 19 June 2015

Yes, I’ve watched The Lego Movie... Its famous song touches on something that we know intuitively to be true: working together, being part of a team, having someone to rely on and trust, is a good thing.

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• Carl Matthei
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• 23 May 2015

I am a reluctant convert to the Swedish Method for Bible study. I read the Briefing article all of those years ago and decided to try it out in a couple of Bible study groups. It didn’t work! It didn’t seem to make group members think deeply enough about the passage, and it seemed to promote surface-level easy answers.

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• Jean Williams
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• 5 June 2015

I was standing near a group of school mums, waiting for my kids to come out of school, when I overheard this one-sided conversation: “It’s my island bench! I’ve always wanted one! It’s mine. Mine! “The new kitchen goes nearly the whole length of the house. There was this

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• Matthias Media
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• 16 October 2014

In the Anglican Church, October 16 is set down as the day for the remembrance of the Reformers and Martyrs of the English Reformation. It is a commemoration of the three hundred or so men, women and children of the Church of England who were burned at the stake

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• Tim Zulker
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• 25 May 2015

Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids by Jack Klumpenhower New Growth Press, 2014, 214 pages What it’s about Show Them Jesus is a book about why kids need to be taught the gospel, and how to do that. Here’s an outline of the book: Why

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• Matthias Media
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• 17 December 2014

Titus 2 is one of my touchstones for women’s ministry. Most women live quite different lives now than they would have in Titus’ time, but we still need to be self-controlled, pure, kind and submissive, adorning the word of God in our daily lives. The women on a

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• Jean Williams
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• 8 May 2015

There’s a chemical smell that hits you on the way to the cancer center. Some bright spark of an architect put the building’s main vents just near the entrance doors. Every time you walk up the path, the smell of chemotherapy hits you. Once you’ve been to an oncology ward,

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• Sandy Grant
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• 22 April 2015

Issue of the week Once again, the depravity of Islamic State was on view. I was very moved by this response from the Anglican Bishop for Ethiopia, Dr Grant Le Marquand, regarding the 28 Ethiopian Christians murdered in Libya by IS: Personal details about the men who have died may

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• Tony Payne
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• 25 March 2015

In response to my recent post ‘False gospels and me’, Neil Foster asked this: I find a dilemma. As a Christian person whose full-time job is not preaching, I find myself (even outside work hours) often speaking about issues that are not a central part of the gospel. Same-sex marriage and

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