Down-under round-up: 25 November 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 25 November 2015

Sandy Grant's links on Islamic extremism, advertising prayer, and improving holiday conversations.

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All gospel, all the time?

  • Tony Payne
  • 25 March 2015

In response to my recent post ‘False gospels and me’, Neil Foster asked this: I find a dilemma. As a Christian person whose full-time job is not preaching, I find myself (even outside work hours) often speaking about issues that are not a central part of the gospel. Same-sex marriage and

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A quick thought on leadership

  • Chris Braga
  • 29 November 2013

We often think of leadership in terms of the giftedness of a person, how competent and skilled they are in the things they do. It might be organizational management, preaching, vision setting or other skills. However, as much as leadership involves the competencies of a person, without people following it’s

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Lifelong sponges for Christ

  • Benjamin Swift
  • 27 March 2019

The incredible thing about biblical texts is their ability to continually uncover deeper levels of understanding and insight, despite our having heard or read them many times before.

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Método Sueco em português

  • Pedro y Teresa Blowes
  • 5 April 2018

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Christmas Card J (pack of 10)

  • 20 October 2011

FRONT: happy Xmas INSIDE: Have a happy Xmas! (remember what the X is for) And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:8 Pack of 10 cards with envelopes.

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Daydreams of the city square

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 29 April 2014

I suspect that we underestimate the burden of sin on our relationships with one another. Some aspects of this burden are obvious; when we are in seasons of strife with brothers and sisters in Christ, the weight of sin is undeniable. Bitterness between brothers drags us down in our fellowship

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It's not too late...

  • Cathy Young
  • 9 December 2016

... to put The Curious Sign into the hands of not-yet Christians.

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The cross preacher

  • Tony Payne
  • 2 June 2015

“You can’t be a cross preacher and appear wise to the world.” This was the provocative line I jotted down about halfway through Phil Colgan’s address at the Nexus 2015 conference. I’m pretty sure, by the way, that ‘cross preacher’ was my abbreviation for ‘a preacher whose sermons are

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One Pastor’s Journey: From “the sermon is everything” to “the sermon is essential but insufficient” (Part 3)

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 20 May 2014

After introducing this miniseries, in my last post I talked about some of the factors which the Lord used to awaken me to the reality that God never intended the sermon to carry the weight of the entire work of pastoral ministry. I thoroughly believe that Sunday sermons are wonderful

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