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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The art of biblical interpretation: Inspiration and our attitude

  • John McClean
  • 22 June 2015

The traditional Christian view of the Bible is that it is God’s word. Some churches recognize this by finishing each Bible reading with “This is the word of the Lord”. What does it mean for how we read the Bible?

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Growth Groups

  • Colin Marshall
  • 20 October 2013

Growth Groups is a 10 week practical, 'hands-on' training program to develop effective small group ('Growth Group') leaders. A training program useful for all Christian ministry, not just Growth Groups, because it deals with the fundamentals of gospel work.

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Build a team before you plant a church

  • Michael Guyer
  • 27 November 2017

While there is no one church planting model in the New Testament, Paul frequently employs a team strategy in his missionary efforts.

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A Word for leaders

  • Chris Braga
  • 4 February 2014

Christian leadership involves a lot of words: sermons preached, Bible studies led, meetings with individuals, families and teams. Words are the pastor’s tools of trade. It makes a lot of sense since words are of crucial importance to Christian people—after all we trust a God who speaks! It means that fundamental to Christian spiritually is

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God save our gracious Queen

  • Sandy Grant
  • 9 September 2015

Today, on the 9th of September, 2015, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch of Britain, eclipsing Queen Victoria’s reign of 63 years and 7 months. (She is already Australia’s longest serving monarch, since in modern nation state terms, we are such a young nation!)

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Another look at the reliability of the Scriptures

  • David Martin
  • 23 November 2020

Since Christians claim that the Bible is God’s word, we need to give a defence or—to use the old terminology—an apology to the world for this claim.

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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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How do you compare?

  • Rusdyan Cocks
  • 3 June 2019

When we compare ourselves to other people we fall into two big problems: comparing down, and comparing up.

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What prize are we trying to win?

  • Adrian Russell
  • 4 August 2015

In 1 Corinthians 9:24, the Apostle Paul urges Christians: “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” I have often heard people explain this verse as an exhortation to strive hard for salvation, to endure in faith, to persevere in love, to remain steadfast in hope, and take hold of the prize—eternal life.

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