The reluctant Swedish reader

  • Carl Matthei
  • 23 May 2015

I am a reluctant convert to the Swedish Method for Bible study. I read the Briefing article all of those years ago and decided to try it out in a couple of Bible study groups. It didn’t work! It didn’t seem to make group members think deeply enough about the passage, and it seemed to promote surface-level easy answers.

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What female friendship really needs

  • Bronwyn Windsor
  • 6 March 2017

Sometimes it takes a new perspective on an old idea to get you to try reading the Bible one-to-one with a friend.

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Do You Feel Called by God? Rethinking the call to ministry

  • Michael Bennett
  • 30 January 2013

Does God 'call' people into ministry? Michael Bennett challenges some long-held views.

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A Sneaking Suspicion (ebook: .epub or Kindle .mobi files)

  • John Dickson
  • 17 February 2015

John Dickson's engaging evangelistic book for young people discusses things that matter—things like life, death, relationships, sex, suffering, meaning and God—things that are important but which we don't often talk about. [ebook format]

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When Christians move on

  • Karen Beilharz
  • 10 June 2016

If you’ve been a Christian for any length of time, you’ve probably had people join your fellowship and people leave for various reasons. Changing relationships can be hard. How do you deal with it? Karen Beilharz offers a few suggestions.

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Sovereign Grace Music Live (CD)

  • Sovereign Grace
  • 16 October 2009

This latest live album includes 14 new songs from two generations of songwriters at Sovereign Grace. The songs are congregationally oriented and cover a range of different styles. Two of the songs feature lyrics from Isaac Watts ('O God Our Help in Ages Past') and William Cowper ('God Moves').

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"I desire mercy..."

  • Sandy Grant
  • 21 August 2015

We’re preaching through Hosea at our church, and studying it mid-week in our Bible studies and youth groups. My group and I grappled with Hosea 6:6. In the NIV it reads “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings”.

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Small and cute opportunities for evangelism

  • Rachel Macdonald
  • 1 April 2019

I am very visible to my neighbours. Every time they stop to wave at my daughter, I find out a little bit more about them, and they about me.

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Jesus for Sceptics (leaflet)

  • 13 November 2009

This evangelistic leaflet encourages non-Christian readers to look at the evidence for Jesus with scepticism, but with an open mind.

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All gospel, all the time?

  • Tony Payne
  • 25 March 2015

In response to my recent post ‘False gospels and me’, Neil Foster asked this: I find a dilemma. As a Christian person whose full-time job is not preaching, I find myself (even outside work hours) often speaking about issues that are not a central part of the gospel. Same-sex marriage and

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