Down-under round-up: 10 February 2016

  • Sandy Grant
  • 10 February 2016

Sandy Grant's links on busyness, sermon preparation, witnessing to Muslims, the "liar, Lord or lunatic" argument, evangelism, and evangelicalism.

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Vine Journal

  • 23 September 2015

Vine Journal features longer articles and essays that convey the best of cross-centred theological thinking, applied to real-world evangelical ministry.

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The Bible Overview

  • 5 December 2014

Would you like to be able to present a clear and memorable overview of the Bible to others?

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Good theology that makes you glad in suffering

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 25 September 2017

The New Testament calls believers to counter-intuitive and unnatural activities. Perhaps one of the hardest is this: rejoice in suffering (Rom 5:3).

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Engaging a 'problem' child

  • Bruce Linton
  • 3 July 2017

This short video gives you an idea of how to interest a disruptive or antagonist child during a Bible lesson.

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Offering people a 'second date' after Christmas

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 27 November 2014

Are you gearing up for Christmas at your church? Of course, you know you’re going to get lots of visitors—people who don’t normally come to church at all. Whether they come to a carol service or Christmas Day services, or some other Christmas outreach event, you expect to see

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Christmas Card J (pack of 10)

  • 20 October 2011

FRONT: happy Xmas INSIDE: Have a happy Xmas! (remember what the X is for) And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:8 Pack of 10 cards with envelopes.

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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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Life in God’s waiting room

  • Jean Williams
  • 12 October 2015

I've been thinking about waiting. The waiting you do when your hopes and dreams have been deferred—again. The waiting you do when you're offered the opportunity you longed for but have to turn it down—again. The waiting you do when the future is uncertain and your plans can only be tentative and provisional—again.

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The uncomfortable exercise of Bible reading

  • Tim Grant
  • 13 July 2016

When it comes to reading the Bible, we have a big problem. That’s why, as Tim Grant explains, we should expect God’s word to chafe.

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