Surprisingly useful advice on friendship

  • Laura Denny
  • 30 September 2019

I’m reluctant to admit just how long it took before I was able to acknowledge that these “too basic to be helpful” lessons were making a noticeable difference in how I thought, acted and communicated in my friendships.

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Beware of church assessments

  • Colin Marshall
  • 28 August 2015

I’m worried about the language and concepts of the human resources world being applied to churches and pastors. I hear questions like: What do we do with underperforming pastors who are not growing the church? Are we reinforcing their sense of entitlement by accepting and rewarding underperformance?

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Tips for Christmas service leaders

  • Sandy Grant
  • 20 December 2016

Are you leading a service this Christmas, or know someone who is? These eight tips will help you do a great job.

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Get behind me, pragmatism!

  • Samuel Freney
  • 12 June 2015

It was the week following the videos coming out of the beheading of 21 Christians by ISIS, which made our discussion about Jesus saying to turn the other cheek pretty tough to wholeheartedly embrace. It’s a difficult demand, and you’ll find there’s plenty more in the New Testament about not taking up arms and solving problems with violence, but rather living as part of the kingdom that is not of this world.

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The problem of perfectionism

  • Paul Berzekian
  • 20 April 2016

Jesus tells us to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect. But when it comes to ministry, does this mean being a perfectionist? Paul Berzekian disagrees.

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Down-under round-up: 3 February 2016

  • Sandy Grant
  • 3 February 2016

Sandy Grant's links on the start of the US election, growth groups, expository preaching, and attitudes towards finances.

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Down-under round-up: 9 December 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 9 December 2015

Links on euthanasia, children's ministry, four kinds of Christmas, the Reformation, and complementarians against abuse, collected by Sandy Grant.

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Atonement (Music CD)

  • EMU Music
  • 25 November 2013

12 songs reflecting on the atonement.

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Down-under round-up: 30 September 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 30 September 2015

This week Sandy Grant shares good reads on religious freedom in Australia, why God is not a narcissist, the New Perspective, James, and his favourite recent GoThereFor articles.

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God's Good Design (ebook: .epub or Kindle .mobi files)

  • 27 March 2012

What the Bible really says about men and women. This is an electronic book for iPad, Kindle and other ebook devices (.epub or .mobi file).

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