Como empezar un grupo bíblico

  • Pedro y Teresa Blowes
  • 10 August 2015

La meta con este estilo de lectura bíblica es de promover la participación de todos.

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Calling for loyal followers

  • Peter Sholl
  • 17 August 2015

What do airlines, hotels and other travel-related organizations want from business travellers? Well, obviously my money, but they would never be so crass as to put it like that. Instead they say, “We want your loyalty”.

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How to find the heart of the text

  • Sean Martin
  • 9 January 2019

Learning how to observe Scripture well enables us to get to what a text is really about. One of the best ways to observe well is by asking questions.

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Is your church a safe house for criminals?

  • Andrew Barry
  • 7 August 2015

When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, he wept bitterly over the people and spoke about the temple’s imminent obliteration, in part because the temple was operating as a “den of robbers” (Luke 19:41-46). The inspection grade was a clear fail!

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Families that break

  • Chris Drombetta
  • 3 August 2015

One of the bedrock families in our congregation just lost their matriarch. I’m thinking about ways that I could have been, and hope to be, more helpful to this family. So with minimal personal editing and the vulnerability of the moment, here are some things for us to remember as we walk with families that break.

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How to talk to strangers

  • Karen Beilharz
  • 18 December 2017

A stranger is a human being—created in the image of God with all the weaknesses and foibles of fallen humanity. It means that, in a way, there’s nothing to be afraid of: this person is like you.

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What prize are we trying to win?

  • Adrian Russell
  • 4 August 2015

In 1 Corinthians 9:24, the Apostle Paul urges Christians: “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” I have often heard people explain this verse as an exhortation to strive hard for salvation, to endure in faith, to persevere in love, to remain steadfast in hope, and take hold of the prize—eternal life.

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What’s in the bad bracket?

  • Tony Payne
  • 31 July 2015

English evangelical vicar Melvin Tinker recently found himself the subject of a media storm for daring to say that homosexual sex was morally wrong. This was in response to the decision by his local Canon to support and bless a gay pride rally, including draping a rainbow flag on the steps of York Minster.

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Down-under round-up: 29 July 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 29 July 2015

Summaries and links for further reading on the commodification of the body parts of aborted babies, the invitation to "come as you are", and how to win by not arguing.

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How to love visiting church members in hospital

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 20 December 2017

I’ve learned to do a few simple, specific things that have transformed hospital visitation from a labourious drudgery into a true means of grace—both for the person I’m visiting and for my own soul.

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