• Isobel Lin
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• 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

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• 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

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• Paul Grimmond
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• 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

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• 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

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• Colin Marshall
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• 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

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• Tony Payne
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• 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

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• 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

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• Tony Payne
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• 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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• 1 September 2009

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• Paul Grimmond
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• 1 October 2009

Life of Jesus Centre for Public Christianity, Sydney, 2009. 2 x DVDs (150 min total running time). Book: 200pp. http://www.lifeofjesus.tv/ ~

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