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• Gordon Cheng
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• 1 March 2008

There are a range of different opinions on how people should be trained for gospel ministry. But, as Gordon Cheng reveals, the right starting point for ministry training is God and his gospel. How should Christians be trained in gospel ministry? Some churches are happy to leave the details of

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• Kel Richards
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• 1 March 2008

Welcoming is one of those areas in which churches can always improve. Kel Richards talks to Jim Ramsay of Evangelism Ministries about a new resource that aims to help churches do just that. Welcomer's Training Course (DVD x 1, leader's manual x 1,

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• 1 March 2008

Preaching the Cross Mark Dever, J Ligon Duncan, Albert Mohler Jr, CJ Mahaney, John MacArthur, John Piper, RC Sproul Crossway, Wheaton, 2007, 176pp ~

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• Phillip Jensen
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• 1 March 2008

A recent news item was profoundly sad and troubling. A man who had died in his bed possibly as long as a year ago, has only just been discovered. The efficiency of modern city life allowed this state of affairs to continue. His pension was paid directly into his

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• Tony Payne
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• 1 March 2008

How times have changed. When I first went on beach mission *umphh-murmur-cough* years ago, we lived in tents, built a beach pulpit, put up with an appalling ‘amenities block’, got washed away when the inevitable rain came, and spent at least some part of every day whooping and hollering through

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• Martin Pakula
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• 1 March 2008

I know what you’re thinking. Not to put too fine a point on it, it’s probably something like, “Who cares? Does the question ‘Who is a Jew?’ even matter? After all, we are all now one in Christ Jesus: ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek…’ (Gal 3:28). Why would anyone

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• Kel Richards
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• 1 March 2008

Is it time for us to stop using the word ‘evangelical’ as our primary self-label? We have long been used to the media being thoroughly muddled about those who count as ‘evangelicals’ and those who don’t. Odd American televangelists (even the use of that word is a bit of

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• Tony Payne
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• 1 March 2008

They say that the psalms are the hymnbook of Israel. I don’t know if this is true, but if it is I sometimes wonder what the atmosphere in ‘church’ was like back then. Take Psalm 96, which has been a favourite source for Christian songwriters for generations. One of

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• Gordon Cheng
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• 1 March 2008

With the help of The Reformed Pastor (written by Richard Baxter) and the Bible (written by God), and in no particular order, I have thought of nine good reasons why Christian leaders and preachers should work hard at one-to-one ministry. _In conversation with people, we can find out whether

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• Gordon Cheng
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• 1 February 2008

I’ve never really been comfortable with the evangelical emphasis on preaching sermons, and never quite understood why we make so much more of this form rather than of other forms of teaching. It seems to me that the emphasis on preaching (that is, ‘preaching’ understood as ‘pulpiteering’, as opposed to

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