How to encourage your group leader

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 28 October 2019

Sometimes we expect our small group leaders to faithfully go about their ministry no matter what—always there, always ready to serve... essentially emotionless reliable small-group-leading AIs.

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Sermon series: Truth on Trial

  • Phillip Jensen
  • 16 October 2009

8 talks by Phillip Jensen on John 18-19 (on an MP3 format disc).

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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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Jesus’ authority and the Great Commission in Matthew 28

  • Ken Dickens
  • 20 May 2019

The risen Jesus proclaimed that all authority had been given to him. Of course all authority belonged to Jesus—he had just conquered death! But Matthew tells us that, while some worshipped, others doubted.

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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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Confessions of a (more recent) bibliophile

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 13 December 2017

Should every Christian aspire to be a bibliophile? Only if every Christian desires to be increasingly conformed to the image of Christ.

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Real friendships don’t look like sitcoms

  • Tara Sing
  • 22 November 2017

When we base our expectations on the friends in our favourite television show, we are left disappointed because real relationships are much messier than we’d like.

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How to use pre-written Bible studies

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 25 April 2018

Pre-written studies have a place in growth group leading, but they work best when we use them to teach the Bible well rather than just to save time.

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The why and how of memorizing Scripture

  • Cassie Watson
  • 9 December 2019

Knowing individual Bible verses is certainly valuable, but I’ve benefitted even more from memorizing larger chunks of Scripture.

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Teacher's Manual: Your Sneaking Suspicions?

  • 16 October 2009

This teacher's manual is designed to compliment John Dickson's A Sneaking Suspicion, allowing you to work through the book in a classroom setting.

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