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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What does a disciple-making culture look like?

  • Colin Marshall
  • 29 April 2016

Colin Marshall discusses the why and how of growing your church.

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Why did God answer my half-hearted prayer?

  • Kirsten McKinlay
  • 19 March 2018

In spite of our shortcomings, weaknesses and half-heartedness, our gracious God is the business of answering prayer and shaping us into the image of his Son.

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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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The only thing scarier than the wrath of God

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 15 November 2017

For some people, grace is a scarier concept to embrace than the idea of hell and God’s wrath. When we invite people to surrender to God’s grace, to trust his love and depend upon his provision, we may be asking them to do something that life has proven to be perilous and foolish.

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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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Reading the Bible together while apart: WhatsApp and the Swedish Method

  • Peter (Pedro) Blowes
  • 11 September 2017

Getting people to read their Bibles, and keeping Christians connected, is a great challenge across large distances and for people who are unable to access good Bible teaching.

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Book review: Roman Catholic Theology and Practice

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 23 September 2015

This is the first book I'm aware of since Vatican II that looks at Roman Catholicism as a system (rather than just a set of isolated beliefs) and then critiques that system. The advantage of this is that it helps us Protestants understand how all the different bits of Catholicism fit together, and as a result be wiser in the way we speak about it.

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The Word, the Spirit and how God speaks to us

  • Emma Thornett
  • 3 December 2015

Evangelicals are sometimes accused of worshipping God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Bible. Over the years, I’ve heard this criticism in many forms.

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