Let your yes be no

  • Mike Leite
  • 13 November 2015

Now, before you rightly rebuke me for misquoting Jesus and James, let me explain what I mean by “let your yes be no”. I think too often in ministry, be it paid or lay, we automatically say yes to things instead of saying no. While this isn’t always a bad thing, it does become a major problem when we too easily become doers for Christ instead of followers of Christ.

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A Santa we can happily celebrate

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 12 November 2015

At a Christmas Day church service I attended some years ago, the service leader started reading what he thought was a pretty humorous debunking of the “Santa delivering toys to every home on Christmas Eve” story.

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Down-under round-up: 28 October 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 28 October 2015

This week Sandy Grant shares opinions on opinions, motives, anger, degrees of sin, puppetry, and ways to engage with gamblers.

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Book review: Women of the Word

  • Jean Williams
  • 30 October 2015

Jean Williams takes a look at a book that is helpful to both men and women for improving the way that they read and understand the Bible.

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8 tips that improved my Bible reading with my kids

  • Marty Sweeney
  • 28 August 2017

You would think that a seminary-trained pastor like myself wouldn’t need much help, but I still struggle to sit down with my children and the Scriptures.

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The Christian bucket list

  • Stephen Liggins
  • 27 October 2015

I’ve just ticked something off on my hypothetical bucket list! A bucket list, for those who don’t know, is an inventory of things that someone decides that they want to do before they die (i.e. “kick the bucket”).

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God Will Have His King (1 Samuel)

  • 20 October 2015

Des Smith guides you through 1 Samuel, showing how the earliest days of kingship in Israel prepared the way for Jesus, God’s true king. (9 studies)

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Start a Vine Project Team

  • Colin Marshall
  • 27 October 2016

An interview with Colin Marshall, answering some questions you may have about kicking off the Vine Project in your church.

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Down-under round-up: 7 October 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 7 October 2015

Sandy Grant's links on mental health, sacrifice, comfort/suffering, Proverbs 22:6, and religious radicalisation.

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Making burdens light without making light of burdens

  • Ruth Baker
  • 4 September 2017

“A problem shared is a problem halved”—but sometimes a problem shared is a problem now two people have.

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