Profile of a vine worker: Chris Drombetta

  • Marty Sweeney
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  • 1 January 2018

Commit to infuse vine work into your regular responsibilities, whether this means in your committee meetings, family car rides, one-to-one meetings, setting up chairs or counselling.

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Is Ecclesiastes too depressing to read?

  • Darren Waters
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  • 28 May 2018

Readers often forget that this book exists to teach us about God, not just about life without God.

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How to train Bible study leaders: Ten Ideas for Training

  • Tony Payne
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  • 28 January 2015

This article continues on from How to train Bible study leaders: Who should we train? In this article, we are focusing on leading a Bible study, but training in the biblical sense always involves the whole of the Christian life. That is, training is a 'total

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The Thing Is

  • Tony Payne
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  • 17 September 2013

From the author of The Trellis and the Vine comes an opportunity to pause and take stock of our lives, and to discover the life-changing purpose that God has for each one of us.

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Peace for an anxious heart

  • Tanya Ling
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  • 11 October 2017

What if you faithfully obey Philippians 4 and yet your heart is still racing, your mind is still whirring, and you just can’t ‘turn off’ the worry switch?

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Challenges to anticipate in one-to-one Bible reading

  • Timothy Raymond
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  • 11 November 2013

While apparently my Aussie brethren have been proficient in one-to-one Bible reading (121BR) for decades, many of us Yankees are still discovering it. Though I grew up in a conservative, Bible-believing church and even attended Bible College, I had never seen or experienced or even heard of 121BR until after

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Review: Do you feel called by God? Rethinking the call to ministry

  • Ben Pfahlert

Michael Bennett’s book is brilliant. I loved it. Let me tell you why.

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Is your church a safe house for criminals?

  • Andrew Barry
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  • 7 August 2015

When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, he wept bitterly over the people and spoke about the temple’s imminent obliteration, in part because the temple was operating as a “den of robbers” (Luke 19:41-46). The inspection grade was a clear fail!

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Disciple-making through singing

  • Chris Drombetta
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  • 6 November 2013

Sunday is coming. Again. This is the joyful and often stressful reality for the music minister. When is the band rehearsing this week? Did I remember to send out those schedules and pieces of music? Who is doing the special music? Are there enough creative elements to support the sermon?

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Persistently praying for God's Kingdom to come

  • Matthias Media
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  • 3 September 2014

In Isaiah 62, God says he is on the move: “I will not keep silent because of Zion, and I will not keep still because of Jerusalem...” * He is going to do something big. A nation that is “deserted” and “desolate” will soon “be called My Delight is in

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