Do You Feel Called by God? Rethinking the call to ministry

  • Michael Bennett
  • 30 January 2013

Does God 'call' people into ministry? Michael Bennett challenges some long-held views.

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El método sueco

  • Pedro y Teresa Blowes
  • 1 October 2015

¿Quieres leer la Biblia con alguien? Intentá con el método sueco, dice Pedro Blowes.

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Real friendships don’t look like sitcoms

  • Tara Sing
  • 22 November 2017

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.

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The Perfect View Songbook (PDF download)

  • 19 September 2011

Note: By arrangement with the copyright holder, this songbook PDF is provided here as a way of accessing the file. There is a charge to cover Matthias Media's costs. Having purchased the songbook, you can make copies under the appropriate CCLI licensing scheme. This song book follows the release of the CD The Perfect View, a compilation of biblically-based material for congregational and item singing.

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Calling to ministry

  • Tim Grant
  • 3 July 2015

Regularly when I sit down with someone, they’ll use the phrase ‘called to ministry’. I don’t have a dislike of this phrase, it can be very useful—only when most people use it, it isn’t.

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Sexual immorality: My personal insights

  • Anonymous
  • 7 September 2015

Married life was typical. It was filled with good times and hard times as the challenges of family set in. He was very open about seeking help and exploring new support groups, and so I thought he was progressing. So it came as a complete shock when he said, “There's something I need to talk to you about. Yesterday I did something really bad.”

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Student Handbook: Your Sneaking Suspicions?

  • 16 October 2009

This student handbook is designed to complement John Dickson's A Sneaking Suspicion, allowing you to work through the book in a classroom setting.

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Why bother with women's conferences?

  • Kirsten McKinlay
  • 11 May 2017

Why do we need to have a conference just for women? Why do we have only female preachers at a women’s conference?

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Prayer meetings... sort of

  • Chris Drombetta
  • 22 November 2013

One of the first things I do on Monday mornings (or most mornings for that matter) is check my iPhone calendar. A few weeks ago, the glowing brick told me that I had more than twenty meetings on the schedule for the week in question. I suppose that number could

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Humpty Dumpty and the doctrine of perfectionism

  • Benjamin Swift
  • 27 April 2020

It is impossible for a human to achieve perfection in this life, to hold ourselves together and live totally devoid of sin.

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