Down-under round-up: 21 October 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 21 October 2015
Problem gambling, signs your pastor is losing their leadership edge, improving your disciple-making team, the characteristics of radicalized Christians, and refuting false theories about Jesus.
Allowing grief to be grief: Pastorally caring for those experiencing miscarriage
- Ruth Baker •
- 9 February 2017
As Christians, we believe a child is a child from conception: inside or outside of the womb doesn’t matter. So we need to let grief be grief, and treat miscarriage accordingly. Most of us are also not professional counsellors, but as pastoral carers, here’s some ideas we can think about.
Conservative Christian politics, violence, and Habakkuk
- Tim Escott •
- 17 July 2017
When it comes to Christian ethics, the connection to violence is often politically fraught.
El método sueco
- Pedro y Teresa Blowes •
- 1 October 2015
¿Quieres leer la Biblia con alguien? Intentá con el método sueco, dice Pedro Blowes.
What disciple-making is not
- Tara Sing •
- 23 December 2014
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
Sermon application missteps
- Mikey Lynch •
- 6 February 2019
Clumsy sermon application often is the result of an individualistic grid.
Don’t call God ‘Yahweh’
- John McClean •
- 2 May 2016
John McClean explains why he no longer calls God ‘Yahweh’.
7 tips for giving away an evangelistic book
- Tara Sing •
- 26 August 2014
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
The main thing is that God will have his king
- Ian Carmichael •
- 15 October 2015
You’ve probably heard the old saying “the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”. When it comes to ministry, it’s a useful adage that helps us review and stay on track with what we are doing.
A pastor’s journey: How the text shaped my ministry
- Stephen Leston •
- 18 January 2016
I‘ve been going through a season of soul-searching recently. One of the things I’ve reflected on is that, as you progress in ministry, you have to manage change on a constant basis. I understood this on one level going into ministry. I understood that the world changes, people change, and cultures change. But one area I had not given a lot of attention to was the fact that I change over the course of ministry.
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