Review: 'You Can Change' by Tim Chester
- 1 September 2009
You Can Change: God’s transforming power for our sinful behaviour and negative emotions Tim Chester IVP, Leicester, 2008. 192pp. Picking up Tim Chester’s You Can Change, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a self-help book. It has all the trappings—a title promising transformation, testimonies of change, an invitation to
Fighting the new fight
- Tony Payne •
- 1 September 2009
If you were a youngish Christian in the 1980s, it is almost certain that, at some point, someone would have pressed a copy of John White's The Fight into your hands and urged you earnestly to read it. It was simply one of the standard Christian books of the era,
Women, awkwardness and one to one
- Isobel Lin •
- 1 September 2009
A friend of mine meets women from her church on a regular basis to catch up and pray. But she reads the Bible with them only occasionally when certain issues come up. It’s not because she isn’t committed to teaching the Bible; on the contrary, she is a women’s pastor
Sticking it to the man
- 1 September 2009
It is almost a given today that history is oppressive. That is why there has been so much hoo-ha about how it has been taught over the last 30 years. Everybody wants their say: if you’re a woman, you need a woman’s history; if you’re gay, you need a queer
Learning to read the Bible one to one
- Paul Grimmond •
- 1 September 2009
Russell de Vries has known Jesus all his life. He grew up having been taught the gospel by his parents, and remembers car conversations about the sermon and Bible during the trip home from church each Sunday. The Bible was an integral part of church and home life. Yet in
One to one: The essential ingredient of pastoral care
- 1 September 2009
The Lord Jesus took hold of my life in 1983 when I was in my final year at school. I had been inoculated against the gospel through repeated small doses of school chapel over the previous ten years, and the message I’d heard had led me to believe that God
Why we still need ministry apprenticeships
- Colin Marshall •
- 1 September 2009
The Ministry Training Strategy has been around now in some form or another for 30 years. (We put on the first ministry apprentices at the University of New South Wales in 1979.) Today (as there always have been), there are questions about the value of doing a ministry apprenticeship. Is
The natural salesman
- Tony Payne •
- 1 September 2009
There were only three of us in Bible study group the other morning, and the other two guys were both in sales—one in property and one in software. We were talking about how to encourage other people with the message of the Bible (whether Christian or non-Christian), about why we
Holidaying with God
- 1 September 2009
This half-term, my wife, Kirsten, and I (with our son Joshua happily in tow) were able to enjoy a fantastic break in Brittany with some good friends. Brittany is a lovely part of France, and we were with great company, enjoying great food and great weather. We had a fantastic
Gospel Convictions: Revised
- Tony Payne •
- 1 September 2009
When we distributed a draft version of our ‘Gospel Convictions’ statement in our 21st birthday issue (in April this year), we hoped that our sharp-eyed, Bible-tuned Briefing community would help us improve the statement with their feedback. We haven’t been disappointed! Our sincere thanks to all who took the time
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