It seems that the Pope is soon likely to declare the Reformation, which started with Martin Luther, is over. But Mark Gilbert explains why the Reformation can never truly be over.
"Do we have to forgive people who aren't sorry?" How would you respond? Our instinct can be to rush in with some kind of ‘yes/no’ answer. What we may fail to do is consider whether or not answering the question as asked is the most helpful response.
How do you preach at a wedding? How do you give a funeral message? How do you prepare a graduation or ordination address?
The Australian government has recently announced that we will receive at least 12,000 Syrian refugees into our community. With countries across the world receiving more and more refugees, I want the church body to be prepared and ready to love and care for those who will soon be joining us.
As a first year MTS (Ministry Training Strategy) apprentice at my church, St Paul’s Anglican in Sydney’s north-west, I get to help make disciple-making disciples as my full-time job. One of my main ministries and highlights of the week is meeting up with different women in my congregation to read the Bible together and pray for each other, with each other. I also meet up with my trainer, Bon, who pastorally cares for me and teaches me from God’s word as I seek to do the same for others.
This world is our God-created home, and yet it’s also not our home. How are we to understand this tension, and how are we to live and minister in light of it? Lionel Windsor looks at the place of ‘exile’ in the sweep of the Bible’s teaching.
Commit to infuse vine work into your regular responsibilities, whether this means in your committee meetings, family car rides, one-to-one meetings, setting up chairs or counselling.
Because our sins live in the dark, we don’t see them unless we turn the light on.
How do you have a happy honeymoon? How do you have a holy love life? How do you have the kind of sexual relationship that God intended for your marriage?
A practical outline of one woman's approach to reading the Bible one-to-one.