What is the role of culture and culturalism in evangelism?

  • Phillip Jensen
  • 30 May 2018

Is evangelizing a post-Christian multicultural nation any different to evangelizing a Christian monocultural nation—and if so, how?

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How do we help visitors sing songs they may not know?

  • Philip Percival
  • 5 December 2016

Four tips for helping others sing with your church from a great music director, songwriter and author.

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The problem with personal Bible reading

  • Kirsten McKinlay
  • 6 November 2017

In this age of authenticity, for something to have meaning, to be helpful in me realizing my humanity, it often needs to be done alone.

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Tips for Christmas service leaders

  • Sandy Grant
  • 20 December 2016

Are you leading a service this Christmas, or know someone who is? These eight tips will help you do a great job.

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Beyond the guilt of not evangelizing

  • David Phillips
  • 1 December 2015

Your group has just finished a study on Acts 8:26-38, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch. In a single conversation, the latter goes from a stranger to being baptized as a believer. It’s an exciting part of the book of Acts—until the study leader asks the awkward (if obvious) question that comes from the passage.

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I don’t have the right to watch Formula 1

  • Mark Delbridge
  • 13 February 2017

For Christians, the Scriptures urge us to see that we are no longer bound to be worshippers of temporary, fleshly things. We are free! But oddly, we find ourselves caught wandering towards that all-too-familiar call of our old master.

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Up from the grave he arose

  • Sandy Grant
  • 1 April 2018

Can you imagine what it might have been like to see Jesus emerge from the tomb? As a matter of fact, the Gospel writers do not record that moment.

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When your sermon needs Greg

  • Tim MacBride
  • 14 November 2018

If you’re a preacher who has ever tried to do something different in order to captivate a congregation with the truth of Scripture... at some point, you’ve fallen into the error of allowing your sermon to serve a creative idea, rather than the other way around.

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How to train Bible study leaders: Who should we train?

  • Tony Payne
  • 15 January 2015

Steve and Jenny were about ready to quit. They had been leading a Bible study group for young adults at their church for four years now and the strain was starting to show. One night, at about 11:15, as the last of the group filed out, Jenny flopped onto

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Do you share the Lord’s Supper at youth group?

  • Ben Pakula
  • 24 January 2018

I’m constantly on the lookout for helpful illustrations to help me explain the gospel to our youth. In the Lord’s Supper I have one! It’s a readily available, visible and physical symbol of Christ’s sin-bearing death.

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