Using the Bible to reason with unbelievers

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 6 October 2016

How do we use the Bible to reason with unbelievers when, on the one hand, they don’t recognize it as a valid source, while, on the other hand, it actually is the source, whether they recognize it or not?

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The gospel opportunities of English teaching

  • Sandy Grant
  • 10 August 2017

It can be hard for Christian pastors, whose full-time job is dominated by contact with Christians, to meet non-Christians, but it dawned on me that one of the best options I had was right on-site.

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Reading into discipleship: A better response to life's difficulties

  • Laura Denny
  • 8 January 2018

The right books can remind us of who God is and what he has done, and keep our eyes on the eternal prize that has been laid up for us.

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Dealing with repeated failure

  • Gordon Cheng
  • 27 September 2017

We know the apostle Peter’s reputation as the biggest and best disciple because he shows moments of true greatness. He is the first disciple named in Matthew, Mark and Luke’s gospels.

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The uncomfortable exercise of Bible reading

  • Tim Grant
  • 13 July 2016

When it comes to reading the Bible, we have a big problem. That’s why, as Tim Grant explains, we should expect God’s word to chafe.

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Regret is not repentance

  • Darren Waters
  • 14 March 2016

Darren Waters ponders the difference between regret and repentance.

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Leading a growth group with non-Christians in it

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 6 September 2017

Nothing shakes a growth group up like new members, but what if those new members are non-Christians? How should you lead in that situation? How do you manage the good things and the difficulties?

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Towards a different model of church mission

  • Phil Wheeler
  • 24 August 2016

Phil Wheeler explores how we might use the strengths of Christian community and fellowship in more creative ways to reach the lost.

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Six ways to be prepared

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 1 May 2017

One of the ways you “honour Christ the Lord as holy” as a Christian is by “being prepared to make a defense [or a ‘reasoned statement’] to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet 3:15).

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Confessions of a (more recent) bibliophile

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 13 December 2017

Should every Christian aspire to be a bibliophile? Only if every Christian desires to be increasingly conformed to the image of Christ.

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