• Richard Sweatman
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• 25 April 2018

Pre-written studies have a place in growth group leading, but they work best when we use them to teach the Bible well rather than just to save time.

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• Peter Sholl
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• 16 October 2015

I’ve always loved Acts 10, the story of the divinely ordained meeting between Peter and Cornelius that unlocks the door for the gospel to go to the Gentiles. For a few years it has been one of my ‘go to’ passages when I am asked to speak on the topic of mission.

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• Mike Taylor
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• 13 April 2017

The ‘infertilty club’ is not an exclusive one. It has many members from all walks of life, even though no-one wants to join it. But As Mike and Pip Taylor discovered, finding themselves in this unwelcome club taught them profound lessons they would never have learned otherwise.

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• Roger Carswell
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• 25 September 2015

Prayer from God’s children to our heavenly Father is never wasted. Every prayer is heard, and we “ought always to pray” (Luke 18:1-8). Throughout Scripture, though, I have noticed that, whilst individual prayer is vital and significant in the life of each believer, it’s when Christians gather together to pray that God chooses to intervene.

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• Rusdyan Cocks
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• 3 June 2019

When we compare ourselves to other people we fall into two big problems: comparing down, and comparing up.

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• David Phillips
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• 21 December 2015

When I was living in a share house, many years ago, I attempted to cook a meal by myself for the first time. It should have gone pretty smoothly. I bought a jar of sauce (‘Chicken Tonight’), some raw chicken to cook, and set about to follow the instructions on the jar.

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• Ruth Baker
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• 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.

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• Dave Jensen
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• 17 September 2018

Rather than churches viewing evangelistic courses as solely an event for non-Christians plus a pastor and perhaps one or two others, we should be striving to have as many Christian church members there as possible.

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• Karen Beilharz
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• 10 June 2016

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.

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• Sandy Grant
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• 27 January 2016

Sandy Grant's links on racism, Islam's conception of God, prayer when weary, evangelism, labelling differences, book Simply Good News, and sexuality.

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