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• 1 May 2011

Note: This is part 1 of a 3 part series on Jesus now—read part 2, 'Where is Jesus now?', or part 3, 'What is Jesus doing now?'. The title of this article, ‘Who is Jesus now?’, may not have instantly grabbed your attention. After all, I imagine that most

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• Scott Petty
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• 1 May 2011

A friend of mine visited my house, an English teacher clearly unhappy with her day. One of her teenage students had rubbished her lesson and the novel they were studying to another teacher. In the staff room there was general consensus that, though my friend is a great teacher, the

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• 1 May 2011

I used to think that interest in the persecuted church was a specialty within a specialty. There are social justice issues, like poverty, homelessness, amnesty, and displaced people groups, and in my head the persecuted church was a subset of these. I probably wasn’t alone in thinking that it’s a

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• 1 May 2011

Lurking in many family-friendly church meetings is a segment that is oft over-looked and under-prepared: the seven or eight minutes when the church focuses on the little people huddled up the front, before they are sent off to Sunday school or kids’ church. At our church we call it the

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• 1 May 2011

One of the great blessings of working in full-time Christian ministry is the flexibility and freedom to design your own week and hours. But this is a mixed blessing—the work ethics of Christian ministers vary wildly between workaholism and laziness. What should a Christian minister’s work ethic look like? Is

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• 1 April 2011

”What’s your vision for Holy Trinity Adelaide?” This was one of the first questions that church pastors in the US asked me when I was there on sabbatical leave around ten years ago. “We want to preach the gospel and see people converted”, or something similar, was my reply. The

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• 1 April 2011

The Universe Next Door (5th edition) James W Sire IVP Academic, Downers Grove, 2009. 293 pp. I first read The Universe Next Door while I was at university. We were running an evangelistic event where students lined up to take a quiz to discover what world view

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• 1 April 2011

Sydney It's 7 am Thursday, and I am sitting in a café on York Street in the central busi­ness district of Sydney. This is my hometown. The coffee, in case you were wondering, is okay. The Suncorp building towers above me, Grosvenor Place tall behind me, and every bus coming

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• Tony Payne
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• 1 April 2011

These are troubling times in the book business. As I sit down to write this month's Resource Talk, the dust is still settling after the financial collapse of the owner of two of Australia's largest bookselling chains. The management is blaming a mix of factors: the high Australian dollar, the

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• Mark Thompson
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• 1 April 2011

The Christian doctrine of Scripture has always been under attack. It’s really only to be expected. Jesus’ teaching was attacked by his contemporaries, who sought ways to discredit him and the things he was saying (John 8:43). The apostles who took the gospel from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria and the

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