• Sandy Grant
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• 4 November 2015

Links from Sandy Grant on the reformation; the installation of a new bishop; the relationship between Christianity and words; thanking God for your normal, boring life; the last of the confessions of an angry pastor; and Os Guinness about Christian disagreement and the public square.

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• Di Warren
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• 20 November 2015

I used to think I had nothing in common with Michelle Bridges, certainly not in terms of carbohydrate intake or BMI. But after hearing Carmelina Read speak on training at the recent EQUIP Leaders Conference, I realized I was wrong.

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• Lauren Driscoll
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• 6 November 2015

A few weeks ago I had an interesting encounter with an older religious lady on our university campus. She noticed that my eyes and skin were discoloured by jaundice, and once I had explained the cause (a rare genetic condition that I’ve had from birth), she was filled with pity and told me that she would pray to her God for my healing.

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• Timothy Raymond
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• 3 November 2015

We don’t like to memorize stuff. We find it dull, painful, and pointless. Most of us would rather go to the dentist than spend 15 minutes working on memorizing something. Honestly, did any of you enjoy learning the times-tables in school? It’s rather laborious work.

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• Tony Payne
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• 15 January 2018

Can we assume that the churches of the New Testament were real Christian churches, lacking nothing essential? If so, what could we ‘lop off’ our current practice of church life and still have a genuine Christian assembly (or ‘church’)?

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• Richard Sweatman
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• 17 January 2018

Our week-by-week plan will inevitably have to change on the fly as studies run long or nights get cancelled, but the planning we do at the start of the year is indispensable.

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• Peter Sholl
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• 16 October 2015

I’ve always loved Acts 10, the story of the divinely ordained meeting between Peter and Cornelius that unlocks the door for the gospel to go to the Gentiles. For a few years it has been one of my ‘go to’ passages when I am asked to speak on the topic of mission.

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• Ian Carmichael
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• 8 October 2015

It’s a word that drives just about any pastor to despair (although not necessarily because he sees it in his own heart and life). The word? Consumerism.

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• Tony Payne
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• 5 October 2015

Tony Payne's introduction to what the Vine Journal is all about.

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• Tim Reid
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• 7 February 2018

A lukewarm attitude isn’t usually embraced within a church, but without us even noticing the attitude can grow over time. Like a weed, if it is not pulled out it has the ability to choke the good roots and destroy what was planted in the beginning.

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