Prepare To Share

  • Tony Payne
  • 21 January 2014

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been leading a small-group-with-a-difference at my local church. In fact we don’t call ourselves a ‘group’ at all, but a ‘team’—the ‘Newcomers Team’. Our disciple-making focus as a group is to chase up the newcomers who roll regularly through the door on Sunday

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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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An encouragement to serve others

  • Peter Sholl
  • 16 May 2016

Peter Sholl shares how his Friday night men’s Bible Study group spurred him on to make that phone call.

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Living by the Bible, together

  • Tim Roediger
  • 12 August 2019

Personal meditation on God’s word is commended in the Bible, but it talks far more frequently about speaking God’s word to each other than it does about studying God’s word alone.

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The Essence of Feminism

  • Kirsten Birkett
  • 16 October 2009

Dr Kirsten Birkett analyzes the feminist movement and feminist ideology from a Christian perspective.

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Sowing the seeds of the gospel for generations to come

  • Ben Pfahlert
  • 4 January 2018

Nothing is more important than taking the gospel and passing it on to the next generation (2 Tim 2:2). What is the best way for you to have the maximum impact for Jesus in your life?

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The Climactic Commission

  • Colin Marshall
  • 19 November 2013

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching themto observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. (Matt 28:19-20) Are we in danger of trying to squeeze too much

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Assigned meaning vs inherent meaning

  • Tom Pattison
  • 9 July 2018

“You have your meaning, and I have mine.”

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How to influence your conscience (before someone else does)

  • Mike Taylor
  • 20 November 2017

The normalization and celebration of sin has become so pervasive in the entertainment we have grown up enjoying that it can be difficult for us to discern whether or not God is pleased with our lifestyle.

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What do refugees need?

  • Jo-Ann Elvery
  • 7 December 2015

We often say, “There’s no place like home”. For most refugees, their new country will not be thought of as ‘home’ for a long time. Most would choose to stay in their country if they could. Many of those fleeing war-torn Syria say their greatest wish is to be able to one day go back to a Syria at peace.

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