Down-under round-up: 20 May 2015

  • Sandy Grant
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  • 20 May 2015

A more concentrated list this week, since I’ve been extra busy… Issue of the week The issue last week was the book banning placed upon NSW SRE (Special Religious Education) in schools. The good news is that the ban has been overturned. This has been an early skirmish in a potentially

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Teach the tension

  • Chris Drombetta
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  • 1 September 2015

I don’t typically think of tension as a good thing. The stress of life, throbbing headaches, tight shoulders, difficult meetings, and arguments at home are not my favorite experiences. However, I was recently reminded again that tension is quite important as we teach our people the Bible.

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Student Handbook: Your Sneaking Suspicions?

  • 16 October 2009

This student handbook is designed to complement John Dickson's A Sneaking Suspicion, allowing you to work through the book in a classroom setting.

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How to start a group

  • Richard Sweatman
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  • 19 January 2017

When the group begins, you and your group members are motivated and keen to make it an excellent year together. This moment is like when you’re about to catch a wave at the beach—if you swim hard just as it’s breaking, you can catch that energy and ride that wave.

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Down-under round-up: 15 April 2015

  • Sandy Grant
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  • 15 April 2015

Here’s what caught my eye on the screen over the last week. Issue of the week Concern over the very real threats to religious freedom through accelerating discrimination, litigation and their threat continued to be discussed widely. But amidst all that, this needed saying. And bluntly. (And yes, I

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You: an introduction

  • Michael Jensen
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  • 16 October 2009

Michael Jensen explores a bibical view of what it means to be a human. Ideal for young Christians (15-25).

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Tough Questions from The Aussie Bible

  • Tony Payne
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  • 16 October 2009

A set of five evangelistic studies, all based in Mark's Gospel, designed to present the Christian gospel in a one-to-one Bible study setting. This version interacts with the highly popular The Aussie Bible (by Kel Richards).

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Nothing matters if God can’t raise the dead

  • Hannah Ploegstra
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  • 6 April 2017

For too many Christians, talk of the resurrection is restricted to a few songs and a family meal once a year on Easter Sunday. And, for many, even those few songs feel just a tad melodramatic.

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Help your home group grow closer together

  • Tara Sing
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  • 11 September 2014

Home groups start off as a bunch of strangers gathering together to read the Bible, but the hope is that they will grow to be more. Our ideal home groups are places where people care for one another, they are open and honest with each other and they do

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Simply Christianity: Leaders Manual

  • John Dickson
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  • 16 October 2009

Simply Christianity is a simple, jargon-free way of sharing the gospel in a friendly, small group environment. It is a five-week evangelistic course for enquirers—in the mould of Christianity Explored and The Alpha Course—which takes participants through the Gospel of Luke and presents them with the challenging teaching, life, death and resurrection of Jesus. (Leader's Manual)

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