Contentment is hard

  • Lee Carter
  • 11 July 2018

Why is it so difficult to resist the urge to grumble? And why does it matter?

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Stepping Out in Faith

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 31 January 2013

Former Catholics tell their stories.

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Why believers don’t know what to think about death

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 3 June 2016

It can be hard to know what to say at a funeral. “Sorry for your loss” or “My condolences” are well-meaning options, but are also ultimately vaporous. As Hannah Ploegstra argues, our inability to offer more reveals that we haven’t really understood the gospel in the first place.

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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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How to use pre-written Bible studies

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 25 April 2018

Pre-written studies have a place in growth group leading, but they work best when we use them to teach the Bible well rather than just to save time.

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Making Friends

  • Murray Campbell
  • 19 June 2015

Yes, I’ve watched The Lego Movie... Its famous song touches on something that we know intuitively to be true: working together, being part of a team, having someone to rely on and trust, is a good thing.

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Saving Eutychus

  • 30 May 2013

How to Preach God's word and keep people awake. Two preachers look at the practical issues of getting to the heart of the biblical text, controlling content so you say what you mean to say, and delivering sermons in a way that keeps people awake. Many books on preaching are published every year; this one is a 'must'. - DA Carson

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How to love visiting church members in hospital

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 20 December 2017

I’ve learned to do a few simple, specific things that have transformed hospital visitation from a labourious drudgery into a true means of grace—both for the person I’m visiting and for my own soul.

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Can I call you mentor?

  • Mike Leite
  • 25 August 2015

One of the things that I am most thankful to God for as a young Christian leader is the older and wiser men and women that God has placed in my life. More specifically, I am thankful for those three or four sage Christian men who have invested their time in me, and who meet with me regularly.

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How can I know that I am saved?

  • Ryan Anson
  • 25 February 2019

I was sure that people got saved—but I doubted whether I was one of them.

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