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How to preach through mental fog

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 20 April 2017

If you’ve preached more than, say, a dozen sermons you’ve certainly experienced mental fog. This phenomenon can cause you to panic in the pulpit, and in your panic you can make your sermon much worse.

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Review: The Beginning of Wisdom: Proverbs Vol. 1

  • Kirsten McKinlay
  • 17 April 2017

Joshua Ng gives an overview of the book of Proverbs, especially in the light of its first nine chapters.

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Glorifying God with infertility

  • Mike Taylor
  • 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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Easter and the dead man on the train

  • Martin Olmos
  • 11 April 2017

Easter reminds me of the most embarrassing moment of my life: the time I brought a dead man back to life just by touching him. I think it is the shock, surprise, and comedy of Easter that remind me of that day.

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Easter activities for kids

  • Carmelina Read
  • 10 April 2017

The advent calendars that children do over Christmas sometimes seem like they'll never end. It's too much for many families to realistically do a craft every day.

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Nothing matters if God can’t raise the dead

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 6 April 2017

For too many Christians, talk of the resurrection is restricted to a few songs and a family meal once a year on Easter Sunday. And, for many, even those few songs feel just a tad melodramatic.

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The gospel of blessing: Psalm 128

  • Sandy Grant
  • 3 April 2017

Read Psalm 128 lately? Does it uncomfortably remind you of the 'prosperity gospel'?

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The pain and glory of unanswered prayer

  • Geoff Robson
  • 30 March 2017

Few things can be more confusing or frustrating for Christians than unanswered prayer—especially when we’re sure there are good, obvious reasons for God to grant our requests.

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Does Jeremiah 29 call us to seek the welfare of the city?

  • Phil Colgan
  • 27 March 2017

Jeremiah 29:7 has become something of a banner in recent years for evangelical cultural engagement and mission. But what does this now-famous verse actually mean?

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How to build real community in your growth group

  • Karen Beilharz
  • 23 March 2017

Growth group is not just about building relationships. It’s not just about solving people’s problems. It’s not just about fostering love and belonging. It’s about growing together as Christians living this side of Jesus’ return.

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