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• Murray Campbell
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• 19 June 2015

Yes, I’ve watched The Lego Movie... Its famous song touches on something that we know intuitively to be true: working together, being part of a team, having someone to rely on and trust, is a good thing.

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• Sandy Grant
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• 17 June 2015

This isn’t what everyone is talking about, and I’m a little late to the read myself, but this is an essential article for discussion amongst ministry or eldership teams. Pastors, find someone to talk it over with, please: The pattern among fallen pastors by Garrett Kell.

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• Tony Payne
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• 16 June 2015

What we believe deep down always bubbles to the surface, whether in an idle word or in the way we behave. In particular, what we believe theologically will inevitably be expressed not only through what we say but in how we do things. And when we behave inconsistently with our stated convictions, it reveals the struggle that goes on within all of us below the surface—the struggle to believe the truth.

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• Stephen Leston
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• 15 June 2015

Matthias Media recently published a book by Steve Morrison called Born This Way, addressing the issue of same-sex attraction by examining both the scientific studies and what God says in the Word. After reading the book, I felt the need to write a short post to encourage others to read it too (no, I wasn’t asked by Matthias to do so!).

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• Samuel Freney
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• 12 June 2015

It was the week following the videos coming out of the beheading of 21 Christians by ISIS, which made our discussion about Jesus saying to turn the other cheek pretty tough to wholeheartedly embrace. It’s a difficult demand, and you’ll find there’s plenty more in the New Testament about not taking up arms and solving problems with violence, but rather living as part of the kingdom that is not of this world.

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• Sandy Grant
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• 10 June 2015

I’m reversing the order this week, since ‘for better or worse’ the issue of last week won’t go away, but tends to take the spotlight off our positive gospel work.

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• Chris Drombetta
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• 8 June 2015

I want to let you in on a little secret that exists among Christian pastors. We don’t like premarital counselling.

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• Jean Williams
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• 5 June 2015

I was standing near a group of school mums, waiting for my kids to come out of school, when I overheard this one-sided conversation: “It’s my island bench! I’ve always wanted one! It’s mine. Mine! “The new kitchen goes nearly the whole length of the house. There was this

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• Sandy Grant
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• 3 June 2015

Issue of the week As I said last week, the Australian marriage debate has heated up, with legislation for same-sex marriage introduced into Federal Parliament. Among the stack of articles published by Christians here and abroad, here’s my pick. Firstly, 'Six initial thoughts on the gay marriage debate’, by Nigel

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• Tony Payne
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• 2 June 2015

“You can’t be a cross preacher and appear wise to the world.” This was the provocative line I jotted down about halfway through Phil Colgan’s address at the Nexus 2015 conference. I’m pretty sure, by the way, that ‘cross preacher’ was my abbreviation for ‘a preacher whose sermons are

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