A fun fact in Leviticus that helps us live full lives

  • Ruth Baker
  • 21 February 2018

God’s covenant with his chosen people is referred to as a covenant of salt only three times: Leviticus 2:13, Numbers 18:19, and 2 Chronicles 13:5.

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Nothing in My Hand I Bring

  • Ray Galea
  • 16 October 2009

Ray Galea shares his personal story of moving from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant faith, and in so doing explains the important differences.

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Reading into discipleship: Knowing vs knowing of God

  • Kirsten McKinlay
  • 19 February 2018

Do you ever feel a sense of guilt or embarrassment when someone mentions one of the great Christian classic works and you’ve never even looked at it?

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Sermon series: Hebrews 1:1-4 (Audio CDs)

  • Phillip Jensen
  • 16 October 2009

In four talks, Phillip Jensen explores and explains these rich verses at the beginning of the letter to the Hebrews. (Audio CDs)

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Women, poverty and the persecuted church

  • Marissa Smyth
  • 21 September 2015

The majority of countries where Christian persecution is most severe are the same countries that have extremely high rates of poverty. In fact, recent data by the Weekly Number demonstrates that gender inequality directly correlates to religious freedom—where gender inequality is higher, so is religious persecution. Afghanistan is the highest for both, the fifth worst place to be a Christian.

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Interview: 30 years of Matthias Media

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 7 June 2018

We began with two goals. The first goal was to encourage churches to hold the line on biblical convictions, and to think through the shape of ministry that flows from those biblical convictions. The second goal was to produce resources that would help those churches to implement that type of ministry.

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Five biblical ways to face death defiantly

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 29 June 2015

Sympathy cards address the sadness death causes, but few acknowledge the rage. Yet that rage is real. It should be: death is the very opposite of God and all that he has created. We should hate it. Christ did.

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“At least once a month, think that you are wrong”: An interview with Richard Chin

  • Richard Chin
  • 29 April 2019

Richard speaks about becoming a Christian, staying refreshed, humble leadership, losing his wife, marrying again, and modern student ministry.

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The cross preacher

  • Tony Payne
  • 2 June 2015

“You can’t be a cross preacher and appear wise to the world.” This was the provocative line I jotted down about halfway through Phil Colgan’s address at the Nexus 2015 conference. I’m pretty sure, by the way, that ‘cross preacher’ was my abbreviation for ‘a preacher whose sermons are

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Return to the Lord (Hosea)

  • James Stone
  • 7 October 2016

What is love? The Bible has much to say in answer to this deceptively tricky question, but perhaps few biblical perspectives on love are more startling or more confronting than the picture offered by the prophet Hosea. It’s here that the God of the universe is depicted as a scorned, betrayed husband—one whose selfless love has been thrown aside by a spiritually adulterous people.

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