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Easter: Room for the world to worship
- Stephen Leston •
- 3 April 2015
I am sitting in the Copenhagen Airport after spending the last several days in Norway talking with church planters from Norway, Estonia, Poland and the Czech Republic. We were discussing plans on training and releasing thousands of church planters into Central and Eastern Europe. It was an incredible time.
Six days of Easter studies and activities for kids
- Carmelina Read •
- 30 March 2015
The advent calendars that children do over Christmas sometimes seem like they'll never end. It's too much for many families to realistically do a craft every day. But the Easter period is a lot shorter, often with less travel to distant relatives involved. This means that you may have some extra
All gospel, all the time?
- Tony Payne •
- 25 March 2015
In response to my recent post ‘False gospels and me’, Neil Foster asked this: I find a dilemma. As a Christian person whose full-time job is not preaching, I find myself (even outside work hours) often speaking about issues that are not a central part of the gospel. Same-sex marriage and
Complementarians and domestic violence
- Tony Payne •
- 18 March 2015
Some recent articles in the Sydney Morning Herald have prompted a lot of discussion about domestic violence and its relationship to Christian teaching—especially complementarian teaching about submission in marriage ('Submission is a fraught mixed message for the church'). It has been suggested that complementarians shouldn’t be silent on these matters
Those false gospels and me
- Tony Payne •
- 17 March 2015
Mark Thompson’s excellent recent article, ‘What is the gospel?’, got me thinking along a number of different tracks. It stimulated me to ponder the relationship between the lordship of the risen Jesus and his saving work. It reminded me how common it has been in Christian history for people to confuse
How to train Bible study leaders: Ten Ideas for Training
- Tony Payne •
- 28 January 2015
This article continues on from How to train Bible study leaders: Who should we train? In this article, we are focusing on leading a Bible study, but training in the biblical sense always involves the whole of the Christian life. That is, training is a 'total
How to train Bible study leaders: Who should we train?
- Tony Payne •
- 15 January 2015
Steve and Jenny were about ready to quit. They had been leading a Bible study group for young adults at their church for four years now and the strain was starting to show. One night, at about 11:15, as the last of the group filed out, Jenny flopped onto
Talking Small Talk
- Tara Sing •
- 30 December 2014
In my last article on small talk, I established that there is a need for small talk in our churches alongside spiritual conversations. Both need to be used in careful, thoughtful and loving ways in order to build up the body of believers. Small talk is a great
What disciple-making is not
- Tara Sing •
- 23 December 2014
Phrases like disciple-making can carry a lot of baggage. Everybody has an opinion or an idea of what it means to disciple someone and what it looks like in practice. Sometimes it leads people to say “Disciple-making? Oh, I could never do that” or “It's not my role to
Great reasons to give books as gifts (don't miss #13!)
- Tara Sing •
- 18 December 2014
As we fast approach Christmas and frantically search for gifts for family and friends, let me share with you a rule I have in my household when it comes to gift buying: "Something you wear, something you need, something for fun, something you read." I love this rule.
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