Sermon note-taking does actually work

  • Rachel Macdonald
  • 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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How to commit Sermon-Suicide

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 24 June 2014

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18) If you’ve preached more than, say, a dozen sermons you’ve almost certainly had the experience. Saturday evening you sit back in your desk chair, look at the sermon you intend to deliver the next morning, and marvel,

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Simply Christianity: Guests Manual

  • John Dickson
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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Reassurance on assurance for tender-hearted souls

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 1 August 2018

Bible-believing Christians have always recognized the category of the tender-hearted soul. This is the true believer who is nonetheless overly anxious, almost obsessive, about their spiritual state.

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Stirrings of the Soul: Evangelicals and the New Spirituality

  • Michael Raiter
  • 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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Making burdens light without making light of burdens

  • Ruth Baker
  • 4 September 2017

“A problem shared is a problem halved”—but sometimes a problem shared is a problem now two people have.

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A walk with Moses

  • Jean Williams
  • 23 February 2016

It all gets swept away. Or perhaps it’s that we are swept away, like pieces of bark on a river, unable to turn back, pressed against snags and stones. The banks slide by; one glimpse, and the things we pass are gone.

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