This is the complete first chapter from Steve Morrison's book Born This Way. A dramatic reversal When I was five years old, my kindergarten class was taught a song about a native Australian bird called the kookaburra. The kookaburra is best known for its distinctive ‘laugh’, which can often be
Bible reading with ready ears and an open heart is engaging and fruitful. There’s something fresh about letting God speak for himself, especially when you search the Bible yourself, making the effort to hear.
If you’re a mum with young children, Bible study can be quite a challenge: it’s not just the getting there (let alone getting there on time); it’s also the getting through the study. But despite the challenges, as Karen Beilharz argues, going is still important.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ONb1qM4BM&feature=youtu.be Video courtesy of Leadership Resources International.
Our society tends to act as if there are only two types of friendships, besties and Facebook acquaintances. There is nothing in between. You can’t be besties with all your acquaintances, so you deliberately keep them in the shallow end of the friend pool.
Who could possibly be in a better position than a Christian to live modestly, humbly, generously; who could be in a better position to consume less, to put self aside and care for others?
This isn’t what everyone is talking about, and I’m a little late to the read myself, but this is an essential article for discussion amongst ministry or eldership teams. Pastors, find someone to talk it over with, please: The pattern among fallen pastors by Garrett Kell.
This CD-Rom contains all the published editions of the journal 'kategoria', with a searchable index.
Leaves are essential to plants. But leaves aren’t fruit. Leaves aren’t what the vinedresser comes looking for. Leaves aren’t what he puts in his basket. Yet, in our Christian lives, I think we often mistake our leaves for fruit.