Down-under round-up: 9 September 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 9 September 2015

Sandy Grant focuses his reading list on the European refugee crises, as well as marital faithfulness, the problem of youth-driven culture, and more.

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Assuming the Spirit

  • David Mears
  • 11 September 2015

A Christian is “at the same time justified and a sinner” (simul iustus et peccator). It is one of the more well-known phrases of the Reformation. God in his grace and mercy has declared the Christian to be righteous due to the atoning work of Jesus Christ. And what God declares something to be, truly is. And yet at the same time, sin is still at work in our flesh.

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Down-under round-up: 2 September 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 2 September 2015

Sandy Grant with what to read on: agendas pushed in schools, surviving university spiritually, shielding children from the world, the moral logic of abortion, and the final days of a dying Christian.

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Truthing in love

  • Lionel Windsor
  • 24 April 2017

Have you heard the saying “speak the truth in love”? The phrase is normally used to mean something like “say true things in a charitable way”. The idea is this: sometimes you have to say hard and challenging things; when you do, make sure you’re using a gracious tone.

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What personality tests can't do

  • Jean Williams
  • 4 September 2015

I love personality tests. That’s not surprising, because people with my personality type enjoy self-analysis. My husband, on the other hand, dislikes personality tests. Yet he still uses them in ministry training because he appreciates how useful they can be in helping people understand themselves and others a little better.

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Leaders have to give up to go up: A chapter from Wisdom in Leadership

  • Craig Hamilton
  • 3 September 2015

Sometimes when you first start out as a leader it can be tempting to look at the people higher in leadership over you and think to yourself, “I can’t wait to be in that position. I’ll be able to do what I want and I’ll have lots more flexibility. The more authority and responsibility I have, the more freedom I’ll have to do what I want.” But that’s not how it works—and especially not in Christian leadership.

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Teach the tension

  • Chris Drombetta
  • 1 September 2015

I don’t typically think of tension as a good thing. The stress of life, throbbing headaches, tight shoulders, difficult meetings, and arguments at home are not my favorite experiences. However, I was recently reminded again that tension is quite important as we teach our people the Bible.

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Leading a quiet growth group

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 7 November 2018

Our confidence is tested to the limit as questions are met with seemingly unending silence. “Will anyone ever speak? Are my questions that bad?” Or we answer our own questions like a solo performer in a surreal theological drama.

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Can I call you mentor?

  • Mike Leite
  • 25 August 2015

One of the things that I am most thankful to God for as a young Christian leader is the older and wiser men and women that God has placed in my life. More specifically, I am thankful for those three or four sage Christian men who have invested their time in me, and who meet with me regularly.

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Nothing matters if God can’t raise the dead

  • Hannah Ploegstra
  • 6 April 2017

For too many Christians, talk of the resurrection is restricted to a few songs and a family meal once a year on Easter Sunday. And, for many, even those few songs feel just a tad melodramatic.

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