The Christmas message according to Santa: I guess you tried to be good.
When the new minister first arrived at this church, it was in serious trouble and not really growing. Seven years later, it’s a thriving body of believers, looking to expand. What changed?
When we base our expectations on the friends in our favourite television show, we are left disappointed because real relationships are much messier than we’d like.
A fantastic result of doing a ministry apprenticeship has been the time spent reading the Bible with interested non-Christians. This has been a humbling experience, as I’ve faced the seemingly obvious fact that I am unable to change someone’s heart and their opinion about Jesus. However, we serve a powerful God who loves to save and has given us his Word, which is able to make us wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Tim 3:15).
Phrases like disciple-making can carry a lot of baggage. Everybody has an opinion or an idea of what it means to disciple someone and what it looks like in practice. Sometimes it leads people to say “Disciple-making? Oh, I could never do that” or “It's not my role to
How can we best help children to subdivide their grey matter for Christ? Today’s kids are bombarded with more information than any previous generation; will their minds be mapping the truth of Christ or building neural pathways to secular wisdom?
If you’ve been a Christian for any length of time, you’ve probably had people join your fellowship and people leave for various reasons. Changing relationships can be hard. How do you deal with it? Karen Beilharz offers a few suggestions.
One of the best and simplest ways to share the gospel with someone is to put a good book in their hands. Here are 7 tips to help you do that well: Read the book first and pray for the person you might be able to give it
Last week I saw the pre-release of the movie Risen, and as I walked out of the cinema I thought to myself, “I can’t believe we are about to let a massive evangelistic opportunity pass us by unnoticed”.
I’ve learned to do a few simple, specific things that have transformed hospital visitation from a labourious drudgery into a true means of grace—both for the person I’m visiting and for my own soul.