Getting started with prayer

  • Ryan Snow
  • 31 July 2017

A short guide for new or young Christians to the basics of prayer.

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Reassurance on assurance for tender-hearted souls

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 1 August 2018

Bible-believing Christians have always recognized the category of the tender-hearted soul. This is the true believer who is nonetheless overly anxious, almost obsessive, about their spiritual state.

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On not doing nothing

  • Matthias Media
  • 2 October 2014

A friend of mine is visiting nursing homes and telling the gospel. It made me think of the variety of ways people tell God's good news to humanity: Scripture in schools, English classes at churches, and visiting nursing homes! God loves variety - he didn't just create

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Cell group day 1: City University Campus, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Terry Blowes
  • 23 May 2015

It was our first cell group meeting. There was Victoria, a committed student leader in her second year of university; Paula, a new person in her first year of study; and me, the missionary who had arrived to accompany and train leaders. The other people who were invited didn’t come.

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3 big ideas and 7 tips on how to read the Bible in church

  • Matthias Media
  • 9 September 2014

So you thought your job was simply to read the Bible passage? That’s easy—you check you have the right passage, you look over it a couple of times and then you get up and read. Surely that’s all there is to it. But I’d like to suggest that there’s a

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Recovering the heart of church planting

  • Stephen Leston
  • 8 December 2016

Church planting isn't just for the young—it's the natural result of discipleship.

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Disciple-making teams

  • 12 September 2013

In this Trellis & Vine Talk episode: The swinging 60s, the failure of small groups, what growth looks like in a group, operating as a team, and what they can do together (MP3). http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TV-Talk-6.mp3 [Originally published at The Briefing.]

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The Road to Jerusalem (Luke 9–13)

  • Des Smith

8 interactive Bible studies for small groups and individuals on Luke 9–13.

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If I were God, I'd make myself clearer

  • John Dickson
  • 16 October 2009

This book by John Dickson considers the vast array of spiritual claims made by different religions and individuals and asks whether any clarity can be found.

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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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