How to change an established group

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 28 September 2015

How do you feel about change? Do you like new and different things, or do you prefer stability? Personally, I’m way down the stability end of the spectrum. If the packaging changes on my cereal box I have a bad week. I like things to be steady and predictable.

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The Lord's Prayer—Part B

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 18 July 2018

Are you familiar with Part B of the Lord’s Prayer?

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A disciple-making agenda in the engine room

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 27 February 2019

A resource to help small group leaders catch the disciple-making vision, apply it to the way they lead their groups, and powerfully model it to their group members.

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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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Everyone already knows: A chapter from Wisdom in Leadership

  • Craig Hamilton
  • 17 September 2015

As we face the reality of our flaws and weaknesses, most of us will employ some common strategies. We will hide our weaknesses, minimize them, or deny them. We pretend they don’t exist. We don’t talk about them, we don’t acknowledge them, and we try our best to ignore them.

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Down-under round-up: 16 September 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 16 September 2015

Sandy Grant's collection of links this week covers the government we can anticipate, mentoring group leaders, prayer and God's control, abortion, rest, God's smashing of barriers, and BP Man.

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Disciple-making ministry when you're in pain

  • Pete Bayliss and Dave Cochrane
  • 15 September 2015

This is the story of two men who decided to keep sharing the gospel in the face of personal tragedy.

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How to measure ‘fruit’ in your ministry

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 14 September 2015

In a previous post, I proposed regarding the analogy of the vine (John 15) that we sometimes mistake our leaves for fruit, thinking that if we’re “getting involved” in ministry, we’re producing fruit. But ministry activities are just leaves—an essential part of the health of our ‘branch’, but not what makes God’s mouth water. Leaves aren’t yummy to him; fruit is.

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Does ‘bearing fruit’ include numbers?

  • Sandy Grant
  • 15 June 2017

Does Colossians 1:5-6 mean that our churches should be getting bigger?

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Still saving Eutychus

  • Marty Sweeney
  • 16 October 2017

It is assumed, to put it simplistically, that to be more faithful to God you must preach longer.

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