The power of God’s word - Interview with Robert Cole

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 January 2009

Imagine not having access to a Bible. Imagine being unable to read it in your own language. Unfortunately these are realities for many Christians around the world. Tony Payne speaks to Robert W Cole, President of Bible League, about the extent of the need and what we can do about it.

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The gospel and the quiet time

  • Paul Grimmond
  • 1 January 2009

Regular Bible reading and prayer constitute the bread and butter of the Christian life, yet these are the things most of us struggle to do from day to day. Paul Grimmond takes another look at the problem, and discovers that quiet times are all about our response to the gospel.

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Review: "Vintage Jesus" by Mark Driscoll

  • 1 January 2009

Vintage Jesus: Timeless answers to timely questions Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears Crossway Books, Wheaton, 2008, pp. 256. It is easy to like Mark Driscoll. How can you not like someone who founded a megachurch in his 20s, who has the flare of a stand-up comedian, and who

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Blood, sweat and tears

  • 1 January 2009

Donald Howard shows us why sermon preparation is still a matter of much-needed hard work.1There is a joy in pulpit preparation—a sense of expectation which spurs us on. But work is needed:There are those [wrote WE Sangster] who argue that the preacher ought to lose the duty in joy ...

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The Swedish Method

  • Peter (Pedro) Blowes
  • 1 January 2009

Want to read the Bible with someone? Go Swedish, says Peter Blowes. For 19 years, I worked in Argentina in a context where many university students were unaccustomed to reading. Bible studies in that country (with its strong Catholic influence and practices expressed in the current evangelical style) were often

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The image of Jesus?

  • Phillip Jensen
  • 1 January 2009

Consider this pew sheet from a suburban church: Today’s Gospel passage portrays a very human Jesus—a Jesus who, in rejecting so rudely at first the pleas of the Canaanite woman for healing for her daughter, reveals the prejudices of the conservative Judaism of his time, no doubt learned implicitly as

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10 ways to discourage your husband in ministry

  • 1 January 2009

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Is the gospel still for the Jews?

  • 1 January 2009

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Doing little things well

  • 1 January 2009

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10 ways to discourage your husband in ministry

  • 1 January 2009

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