Are growth group leaders pastors?

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 27 April 2017

If so, should we start calling them pastors? If you’re a growth group leader, how would you feel about being called, or calling yourself, a pastor? If you’re a growth group member, would you call your leader your pastor?

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Eight ways to become more humble

  • Jane Tooher
  • 6 December 2017

Practical steps to help you fight pride.

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The art of biblical interpretation: A history of what God does

  • John McClean
  • 22 February 2016

In the ancient world, when a great king made a covenant with his people, the document included an account of history (scholars call it the historical prologue). The king underlined what he had done for his subjects, how he protected them, and so reminded them why they owed him loyalty.

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It’s my son’s birthday today

  • Michael Churches
  • 12 December 2016

Joe Davidson has an unusual child with a famous birthday...

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What I did on my long service leave

  • Dave Rogers
  • 29 October 2015

So I had long service leave for the first time this year. “How did that happen?” I asked myself, before hurtling back to reality as I remembered first my years of single ministry, rapidly followed by a church plant, getting married, becoming a rector, welcoming two small people into our world, leading a growing church, and dealing with the reality of struggling marriages and bodies ravaged by cancer.

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Don’t forget the punchline!

  • Mike Leite
  • 27 May 2016

Telling others around us that we’re Christian or that we go to church is enough, right? Mike Leite suggests that if so, we are forgetting something very important.

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That pile of books

  • Marty Sweeney
  • 8 November 2017

Never let the book you just read lie dormant on your bookshelf.

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Daddy issues

  • Jean Williams
  • 17 June 2016

Struggling with her daddy issues one morning, Jean Williams took a walk and prayed. Here’s what the Spirit said to her heart.

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Who needs to change?

  • Stephen Liggins
  • 25 January 2016

There’s a classic story about a parent separating two fighting children. Trying to get to the bottom of things, they ask: “So what’s the problem?” Utterly incensed, one child blurts out, “It all started when Jimmy hit me back!”

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A Santa we can happily celebrate

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 12 November 2015

At a Christmas Day church service I attended some years ago, the service leader started reading what he thought was a pretty humorous debunking of the “Santa delivering toys to every home on Christmas Eve” story.

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