A tribute to neighbours lost

  • Tom Watson
  • 16 April 2018

Three lessons from a friendship.

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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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The priority that isn't

  • Tony Payne
  • 30 January 2014

Over the past couple of months, pastors and church leadership teams in many parts of the world have been reviewing the year just past, and dreaming and scheming about the year to come. And there is always so much to work on. Perhaps you and your team have been be

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The Essence of Feminism

  • Kirsten Birkett
  • 16 October 2009

Dr Kirsten Birkett analyzes the feminist movement and feminist ideology from a Christian perspective.

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Atheism is definitely wrong (leaflet)

  • Paul Grimmond
  • 16 October 2009

In this lealet, Paul Grimmond makes three telling points in response to an aggressive 'New Atheism' that is sweeping the Western world.

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The reluctant Swedish reader

  • Carl Matthei
  • 23 May 2015

I am a reluctant convert to the Swedish Method for Bible study. I read the Briefing article all of those years ago and decided to try it out in a couple of Bible study groups. It didn’t work! It didn’t seem to make group members think deeply enough about the passage, and it seemed to promote surface-level easy answers.

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Welcome to Vine Journal

  • Tony Payne
  • 5 October 2015

Tony Payne's introduction to what the Vine Journal is all about.

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The Martyrs of the English Reformation

  • Matthias Media
  • 16 October 2014

In the Anglican Church, October 16 is set down as the day for the remembrance of the Reformers and Martyrs of the English Reformation. It is a commemoration of the three hundred or so men, women and children of the Church of England who were burned at the stake

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One Pastor’s Journey: From “the sermon is everything” to “the sermon is essential but insufficient” (Part 1)

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 24 January 2014

One of the most important and yet contested points in The Trellis and the Vine is a certain little claim made in chapter 8. The title of the chapter says it all: “Why Sunday Sermons are Necessary But Not Sufficient”. The authors’ point is fairly straightforward and simple. Sunday sermons

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Let’s ditch the guilt on evangelism

  • Emily Cobb
  • 28 March 2018

Growing up in the church, I held the misconception that evangelism was leading someone through a sinner’s prayer—if I hadn’t done that, I’d failed. But as we read through the New Testament and see evangelism occurring, God paints a very different picture of evangelism.

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