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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Failing fast

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 February 2017

Editorial from Vine Journal 5.

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Surmonter le péché

  • Gordon Cheng
  • 6 November 2018

Après avoir confessé notre péché et demandé le pardon de Dieu, l’étape suivante est généralement de changer ses habitudes.

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Is it time to leave your church?

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 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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Life in God’s waiting room

  • Jean Williams
  • 12 October 2015

I've been thinking about waiting. The waiting you do when your hopes and dreams have been deferred—again. The waiting you do when you're offered the opportunity you longed for but have to turn it down—again. The waiting you do when the future is uncertain and your plans can only be tentative and provisional—again.

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How to get your group to prepare for Bible study

  • David Evans
  • 1 October 2015

“So... how did you find the passage? Any initial thoughts?” An eerie silence follows, accompanied by the awkward shifting of people in their chairs, as it becomes apparent that no-one has prepared. It will be a dry old night of trying to wring out some answers from people whose sudden pangs of guilt have distracted them from the possibility of thinking up a response by reading the passage right now.

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Down-under round-up: 30 September 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 30 September 2015

This week Sandy Grant shares good reads on religious freedom in Australia, why God is not a narcissist, the New Perspective, James, and his favourite recent GoThereFor articles.

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But you're wrong!

  • Jennie Baddeley
  • 29 September 2015

How do we disagree with each other? If you’ve been around any church for more than 12 months you’ll know that there are many disagreements. Sometimes these are fairly small and trivial. In every church I’ve ever been in there’s been an argument about the colour or type of the furnishings. And the carpet is a small issue compared with some of the wider ones that impact on life, like who Jesus is, how God saves, and other major doctrinal truths.

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Under the Sun (Ecclesiastes)

  • Des Smith
  • 7 June 2018

Seven Bible studies from the book of Ecclesiastes.

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Flossing

  • Stephen Liggins
  • 22 September 2015

Sometimes we take good advice. Sometimes we don’t. What about biblical exhortations? Take the following, for example: “always [be] prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet 3:15). This instruction makes a lot of sense to a Christian.

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