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• Matthias Media
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• 2 September 2014

You’ve put in the preparation, worked hard at understanding the passage, thought about the study and how you are going to lead the group through it. You are, in other words, primed and ready to go and then… only two of the seven members of your group turn up on

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• Matthias Media
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• 28 August 2014

Shining a monthly spotlight on a ministry that we thank God for. Recently the Matthias Media team sat in our meeting room listening intently to an American visitor named Craig Parro. Craig was basically ‘in transit’—stopping off briefly in Sydney, on his way from Chicago to Papua New

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• Tara Sing
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• 26 August 2014

One of the best and simplest ways to share the gospel with someone is to put a good book in their hands. Here are 7 tips to help you do that well: Read the book first and pray for the person you might be able to give it

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• Tara Sing
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• 19 August 2014

On Friday afternoons I find myself sitting in McDonald's, a cup of tea in hand, listening intently to girls ten years younger than myself. This precious hour is one of the highlights of my week. I love meeting with the teenage girls from church, chatting about life and God and

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• Hannah Ploegstra
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• 24 July 2014

The word of God is like a seed that goes into the soil of our hearts and produces a crop (Mark 4). Those of us who work hard to plant that seed through memorization hope to see God multiply it thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times. So it’s kind

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• Stephen Leston
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• 22 July 2014

I was recently teaching a group of young men and women who were training to be missionaries a class on the book of Ephesians. While we were discussing the book, something hit me that opened my eyes to another layer of Ephesians. Having taught through Ephesians several times I had

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• Timothy Raymond
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• 24 June 2014

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18) If you’ve preached more than, say, a dozen sermons you’ve almost certainly had the experience. Saturday evening you sit back in your desk chair, look at the sermon you intend to deliver the next morning, and marvel,

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• Hannah Ploegstra
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• 20 June 2014

Nearly every nature documentary has a scene in which mama takes her babies out of the den in the spring and teaches them how to find food. There they go, across the tundra or desert or mountain (whatever the case may be), in search of food. When the babies are

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• Tim Zulker
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• 16 June 2014

Repentance gives us fresh stories to share about the gospel at work in our hearts Christians who have known Christ for a while sometimes struggle with their testimony. “My story is boring.” “I got saved so long ago, I can’t even remember it all.” I was saved at age five—it

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• Adrian Russell
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• 27 May 2014

In Matthew 11:14, Jesus recalls the promise in Malachi 4:5, and names John the Baptist as the Elijah who was to come. If Jesus is the one who comes after John the Baptist, can we draw a parallel to the one who came after Elijah? If John is Elijah, does

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