Helping poor readers in home groups

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 31 October 2018

I’m talking about people who don’t struggle at all with the English language; people who might have postgraduate degrees in law or English; even people who might work with words professionally every day. So why do they need help?

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Tough Questions from The Aussie Bible

  • Tony Payne
  • 16 October 2009

A set of five evangelistic studies, all based in Mark's Gospel, designed to present the Christian gospel in a one-to-one Bible study setting. This version interacts with the highly popular The Aussie Bible (by Kel Richards).

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Reading the Bible Aloud

  • Jason Perini
  • 19 April 2016

In this short course, we’ll think through the 'why' and 'how' of communicating God’s word clearly and meaningfully for the benefit of those to whom you are reading. We’ll see what it looks like, in other words, to be devoted to the public reading of Scripture in a practical and achievable way.

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Humpty Dumpty and the doctrine of perfectionism

  • Benjamin Swift
  • 27 April 2020

It is impossible for a human to achieve perfection in this life, to hold ourselves together and live totally devoid of sin.

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When cancer comes up in your group

  • Matthias Media
  • 16 September 2014

Last year my wife Fiona and I led a growth group together at church. It was a wonderful experience but also very challenging. My chemo cycles meant that I tended to be absent roughly one week in three, and sometimes I wouldn’t know how I’d be until that

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Leading a growth group with non-Christians in it

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 6 September 2017

Nothing shakes a growth group up like new members, but what if those new members are non-Christians? How should you lead in that situation? How do you manage the good things and the difficulties?

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A Word for leaders

  • Chris Braga
  • 4 February 2014

Christian leadership involves a lot of words: sermons preached, Bible studies led, meetings with individuals, families and teams. Words are the pastor’s tools of trade. It makes a lot of sense since words are of crucial importance to Christian people—after all we trust a God who speaks! It means that fundamental to Christian spiritually is

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Garden of Love (Song of Songs)

  • Des Smith
  • 13 November 2017

What does God have to say in this passionate poem, how does it relate to Jesus, and what does it mean for us? (4 studies)

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The heart of the matter: The being of pastoral care

  • Sally Sims
  • 3 November 2016

Pastoral care flows out of God’s grace and the Christian love and integrity which should follow. Being must come before doing.

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Choosing helpful Christmas traditions

  • Mike Allen
  • 28 November 2018

I think we need to acknowledge that some Christmas traditions are just genuinely unhelpful. But what about less overt customs?

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