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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Persuasion: the right stuff

  • Stephen Liggins
  • 18 May 2016

Persuasion can be a useful tool for gospel proclamation. But what sorts of persuasive methods are open to Christians? Stephen Liggins offers some suggestions from the Book of Acts.

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Am I serving others with how I post photos?

  • Pip Taylor
  • 26 August 2019

If as Christians all we have to share online is how great or memorable parenthood or our children are, it’s not helpful for us or others.

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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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Seduced by a comfortable life

  • Tanya Ling
  • 10 January 2018

Most of us reading this have privileges that other people around the world only dream of. These are good gifts from God, and we ought to thank him. But has it become too much of a good thing?

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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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Top ten rookie preaching mistakes

  • Peter Ko
  • 18 October 2017

Sound advice for improving your sermons.

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Eight ways to become more humble

  • Jane Tooher
  • 6 December 2017

Practical steps to help you fight pride.

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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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