• Winnie Chan
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• 19 January 2016

As a first year MTS (Ministry Training Strategy) apprentice at my church, St Paul’s Anglican in Sydney’s north-west, I get to help make disciple-making disciples as my full-time job. One of my main ministries and highlights of the week is meeting up with different women in my congregation to read the Bible together and pray for each other, with each other. I also meet up with my trainer, Bon, who pastorally cares for me and teaches me from God’s word as I seek to do the same for others.

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• Philip Percival
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• 5 December 2016

Four tips for helping others sing with your church from a great music director, songwriter and author.

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• The Briefing
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• 25 July 2016

In this 'Briefing' classic from the archives, Paul Grimmond changes the way we think about work.

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• David Phillips
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• 1 December 2015

Your group has just finished a study on Acts 8:26-38, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch. In a single conversation, the latter goes from a stranger to being baptized as a believer. It’s an exciting part of the book of Acts—until the study leader asks the awkward (if obvious) question that comes from the passage.

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• Stephen Liggins
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• 9 November 2015

Prayer is a bit like apple pie, motherhood, and long weekends: everyone is for them! I mean, is there anyone who doesn’t enthusiastically embrace these fine institutions?

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• Peter Tong
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• 13 June 2016

We know that prayer should form the backbone of Christian ministry, but often we fail to put this knowledge into practice. Peter Tong presents four helpful thoughts on prayer to encourage us to make it our foundation stone.

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• Mark Gilbert
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• 3 August 2016

It seems that the Pope is soon likely to declare the Reformation, which started with Martin Luther, is over. But Mark Gilbert explains why the Reformation can never truly be over.

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• David Phillips
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• 18 April 2016

Church weekends away can often be uncomfortable and awkward. But as Dave Phillips argues, there’s value in spending time away together: the key is preparing well.

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• Ian Carmichael
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• 5 January 2016

Like many churches, we got quite a few visitors at our Christmas carols and Christmas Day service. This year we tried something new: we made available some free books for people to take if they were interested. One was a simple Christmas-themed evangelistic book (A Very Different Christmas, published by the Good Book Company), and the second was The Book of Books (from Matthias Media).

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• Mike Allen
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• 20 October 2016

The current trend in society is for people to deny difference in an effort to squash inequality. Mike Allen argues that difference is something that shouldn’t be ignored, but instead celebrated.

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