If you’re a mum with young children, Bible study can be quite a challenge: it’s not just the getting there (let alone getting there on time); it’s also the getting through the study. But despite the challenges, as Karen Beilharz argues, going is still important.
You won’t walk away with a handy ten tips to improve your Bible reading. Instead, Psalm 119 will help you to see why daily time in Scripture is so important.
While I was reading 1 Corinthians earlier this year, and in particular the section on Christian freedom in chapters 8-10, I was struck by how these seemingly irrelevant chapters on food sacrificed to idols and Paul’s rights as an Apostle are actually vital for understanding Christian maturity. I noticed that,
How does a disciple-making agenda fit with the need for us to express our love for our neighbours through engagement in social action?
In Luke 4:16, Jesus comes to Nazareth, to the synagogue in the town where he’d been brought up. He stands up to read, someone gives him a scroll, he unrolls it and finds a particular verse, gives the scroll back to the attendant, and sits back down.
FRONT: the Christmas gift INSIDE: that gives new life. Happy Christmas! ...just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Romans 6:4b - Pack of 10 cards with envelopes.
John Chapman gives tips to young preachers on how to give Christian talks.
Sometimes, although we mean to help, we cause harm. Have you thought through how the timing of your church's programs affect people?
Michael Hill provides an accessible, yet rigorously biblical approach to evangelical ethics.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been leading a small-group-with-a-difference at my local church. In fact we don’t call ourselves a ‘group’ at all, but a ‘team’—the ‘Newcomers Team’. Our disciple-making focus as a group is to chase up the newcomers who roll regularly through the door on Sunday