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• Trent Hunter
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• 15 January 2016

In my ministry as a pastor, I schedule a lot of coffee meet-ups with men. I noticed after a while that these involved valuable conversations about people and what was going on in their lives, but I was not using these meetings to adequately engage men with the Scriptures in a planned and direct fashion. We were both missing out on an opportunity for something deeper.

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• Sandy Grant
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• 14 January 2016

Sandy Grant's links of the week, focusing on goals and resolutions that can be made at any time.

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• Hannah Ploegstra
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• 12 January 2016

Many times God answers our prayers with a firm “no”. But there are three prayers to which God’s answer will always be “yes”.

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• Stephen Liggins
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• 11 January 2016

I remember reading a story a few years back about a time when the great West Indian cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers (perhaps the second greatest cricketer of all time) gave a one-off coaching session to a junior cricket team in Sydney. Afterwards, a journalist asked one of the lucky young boys what he had learned from the great Mr Sobers.

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• Seumas Macdonald
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• 8 January 2016

So, you’re going to theological college and you want to get started on Greek. You’ve heard it’s a bit hard, but you’ve got a few weeks or months to go, you’re keen to finally tackle God’s word in one of its original languages, and anything you can do to get ahead of the game will help.

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• Ian Carmichael
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• 5 January 2016

Like many churches, we got quite a few visitors at our Christmas carols and Christmas Day service. This year we tried something new: we made available some free books for people to take if they were interested. One was a simple Christmas-themed evangelistic book (A Very Different Christmas, published by the Good Book Company), and the second was The Book of Books (from Matthias Media).

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• Rachel Macdonald
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• 4 January 2016

I recently attended the EQUIP Women Leaders Conference . It was a fantastic time of discussion and discovery. I had several ‘light bulb’ moments… and one moment of despair.

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• Timothy Raymond
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• 28 December 2015

We don’t like to memorize stuff. We find it dull, painful, and pointless. Most of us would rather go to the dentist than spend 15 minutes working on memorizing something. Honestly, did any of you enjoy learning the times-tables in school? It’s rather laborious work.

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• David Phillips
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• 21 December 2015

When I was living in a share house, many years ago, I attempted to cook a meal by myself for the first time. It should have gone pretty smoothly. I bought a jar of sauce (‘Chicken Tonight’), some raw chicken to cook, and set about to follow the instructions on the jar.

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• Tony Payne
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• 16 December 2015

We’re looking for a key person to join our Sydney-based management team.

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