Sermon note-taking does actually work

  • Rachel Macdonald
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  • 11 April 2018

When I glance around my church during the sermon, I don’t see many moving pens or pencils. I do see lots of open Bibles, and a couple of people furiously typing with their thumbs.

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Hope Beyond Cure (ebook: .epub or Kindle .mobi files)

  • David McDonald
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  • 12 December 2013

David McDonald wrestles with a vital, and for him, a very personal question: is there hope beyond cure?

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Simply Christianity: Guests Manual

  • John Dickson
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  • 16 October 2009

Simply Christianity is a simple, jargon-free way of sharing the gospel in a friendly, small group environment. It is a five-week evangelistic course for enquirers—in the mould of Christianity Explored and The Alpha Course—which takes participants through the Gospel of Luke and presents them with the challenging teaching, life, death and resurrection of Jesus. (Guest's Manual)

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Addressing sexuality with teenagers

  • Michael Guyer
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  • 22 January 2018

We are far too often late to the conversation about sexuality with our teenagers, and reactionary once we speak up.

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Little Bobby’s perfect day: Promoting creative team ministry

  • Braden Marsden
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  • 26 November 2018

When you become complacent in your ministry and do the same programs and activities “because that’s what we have always done”, then your ministry will fail to cater to changes in culture.

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Christianity: A Pocket Guide (Chinese translation--traditional)

  • Kim Hawtrey
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  • 16 October 2009

Kim Hawtrey, evangelist and author, has put together this clear and helpful 'pocket' outline of what it means to be a Christian and how to become one—faithfully translated into Chinese using traditional characters. The Gospel is presented both through text and through a visual representation of the Bible's big story. The tract also includes concise answers to common questions, including "Is the Bible trust-worthy?"; "Is Christianity the only way to God?

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Top ten rookie preaching mistakes

  • Peter Ko
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  • 18 October 2017

Sound advice for improving your sermons.

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Stirrings of the Soul: Evangelicals and the New Spirituality

  • Michael Raiter
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  • 16 October 2009

Michael Raiter surveys contemporary spiritualities, and addresses a range of important questions for Christians: What is true spirituality? If we were to meet a ‘truly spiritual' person, what would they look like? How do we respond biblically to our longing for spiritual intimacy?

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Broken bad

  • Claire Smith
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  • 13 May 2016

Often when we share the gospel, we speak as though we are 'broken' people, whom Christ has rescued from our 'brokenness'. Claire Smith discusses why such terminology may not be that helpful.

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Cross-shaped mission (statements)

  • Tony Payne
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  • 16 June 2015

What we believe deep down always bubbles to the surface, whether in an idle word or in the way we behave. In particular, what we believe theologically will inevitably be expressed not only through what we say but in how we do things. And when we behave inconsistently with our stated convictions, it reveals the struggle that goes on within all of us below the surface—the struggle to believe the truth.

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