What personality tests can't do

  • Jean Williams
  • 4 September 2015

I love personality tests. That’s not surprising, because people with my personality type enjoy self-analysis. My husband, on the other hand, dislikes personality tests. Yet he still uses them in ministry training because he appreciates how useful they can be in helping people understand themselves and others a little better.

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Still saving Eutychus

  • Marty Sweeney
  • 16 October 2017

It is assumed, to put it simplistically, that to be more faithful to God you must preach longer.

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Let your yes be no

  • Mike Leite
  • 13 November 2015

Now, before you rightly rebuke me for misquoting Jesus and James, let me explain what I mean by “let your yes be no”. I think too often in ministry, be it paid or lay, we automatically say yes to things instead of saying no. While this isn’t always a bad thing, it does become a major problem when we too easily become doers for Christ instead of followers of Christ.

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How to start a group

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 19 January 2017

When the group begins, you and your group members are motivated and keen to make it an excellent year together. This moment is like when you’re about to catch a wave at the beach—if you swim hard just as it’s breaking, you can catch that energy and ride that wave.

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Just deserts

  • Phillip Jensen
  • 26 March 2018

Just as it is completely normal to call for justice when we are the victims, so also is it completely normal to want to avoid justice when we are guilty.

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Living By Faith (Habakkuk)

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 11 January 2016

Have you ever found yourself wondering whether God really cares about the goings on of this world? Does he care about the violence and pain that so many people suffer? Does he even notice that most people don't even believe he exists, let alone obey his commands? (5 studies)

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Admonition or Affirmation? Do I have to choose?

  • Adrian Russell
  • 15 November 2013

These days the word love has kind of by default come to mean something like ‘affirmation’. To love someone or something necessarily means to approve every bit of them. To disagree with some aspect of their life or character means you must hate them, or be afraid of them. (Although,

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Making Friends

  • Murray Campbell
  • 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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The Everlasting God (ebook: .epub or Kindle .mobi files)

  • DB Knox
  • 2 November 2012

For over 25 years, the late Dr Broughton Knox's classic work of theology, The Everlasting God, has helped many Christians to carefully examine the profoundly important subject of the character of God. (ebook)

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Here comes Santa Claus

  • Annie Kratzsch
  • 24 November 2016

All about writing a book to help make it clear to kids that Christmas is about God giving freely.

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