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Engaging a 'problem' child

  • Bruce Linton
  • 3 July 2017

This short video gives you an idea of how to interest a disruptive or antagonist child during a Bible lesson.

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Praying for a train wreck

  • Geoff Robson
  • 29 June 2017

What should I pray for people—adored yet adrift, loved but lost—as I think about wanting to see them come to know Jesus? How will the (humanly) impossible ever happen?

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Meet the new ‘twicer’: The irregular regular

  • Mike Leite
  • 26 June 2017

The average churchgoer attends church just twice a month. I hope you’ll agree that this is rather saddening! Here are three biblical truths to help us break the twicer habit.

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The ministry of welcoming

  • Rick Lewers
  • 22 June 2017

Churches that are growing are doing so because of God's generosity. But that should not stop us from thinking hard and long about what we do in church, how it affects our fellowship and how it appears to outsiders.

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Friendship without burnout: Three foundations for true Christian fellowship

  • Ruth Baker
  • 19 June 2017

Our society tends to act as if there are only two types of friendships, besties and Facebook acquaintances. There is nothing in between. You can’t be besties with all your acquaintances, so you deliberately keep them in the shallow end of the friend pool.

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Does ‘bearing fruit’ include numbers?

  • Sandy Grant
  • 15 June 2017

Does Colossians 1:5-6 mean that our churches should be getting bigger?

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Video: What it means to be a disciple

  • Tony Payne
  • 12 June 2017

Tony Payne, co-author of The Vine Project, explains about what it means to be a disciple and what it therefore means to ‘make’ disciples.

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How to pastor irregular growth group members

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 8 June 2017

We’ve all missed growth group now and then for various reasons, but sometimes people seem to be absent as often as present. Pastoring such irregular group members is one of the most common challenges of group leading.

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Review: Friends of Calvin

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 5 June 2017

While I’ve loved and admired Calvin’s theology and ministry for a couple of decades, up until relatively recently my perception of Calvin’s personality was rather negative. I looked at him as the theological equivalent of Batman.

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How to teach 'sin' to children

  • Bruce Linton
  • 1 June 2017

Childhood is not too early to teach complex theological ideas; it's a fundamental time! This short video will help you get the concept of sin across to children.

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