Superficiality can’t be solved glibly or easily

  • David Phillips
  • 2 October 2015

You’ve reached the end of a fantastic study. The group has been engaged, asking good questions; you feel like you’re seeing a group of people keen to apply the word of God to their lives. You reach the application questions. And nothing. No one comes up with anything.

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Nine things Titus 2 women do

  • Tara Sing
  • 14 November 2016

Women are encouraged in the book of Titus to be active in looking after the next generation, teaching and modelling to them how to be a woman of God.

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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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How can I help?: The doing of pastoral care

  • Sally Sims
  • 17 November 2016

Tips for helping fellow Christians who are going through a difficult time.

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Good theology that makes you glad in suffering

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 25 September 2017

The New Testament calls believers to counter-intuitive and unnatural activities. Perhaps one of the hardest is this: rejoice in suffering (Rom 5:3).

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God’s word, an instrument of death

  • Angus Martin
  • 19 December 2018

“The pen is mightier than the sword”. Rubbish, absolute rubbish.

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From mission field to mission station: Lessons from Acts 11:19-30

  • Stephen Leston
  • 18 September 2015

I am currently preaching through the book of Acts. It is my second time preaching through this book, and I love it! I just recently finished preaching through Acts 11:19-30: the formation of the church in Antioch. This account is one that has always intrigued me.

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Ministry is midwifery

  • Jean Williams
  • 21 November 2016

Jean Williams shares six imperatives that help us remember who it is who truly grows the gospel in his disciples.

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Book review: Roman Catholic Theology and Practice

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 23 September 2015

This is the first book I'm aware of since Vatican II that looks at Roman Catholicism as a system (rather than just a set of isolated beliefs) and then critiques that system. The advantage of this is that it helps us Protestants understand how all the different bits of Catholicism fit together, and as a result be wiser in the way we speak about it.

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