The Christian passport
- Phillip Jensen •
- 14 July 2015
Passports are really important. You can’t enter the kingdom of heaven with the wrong one. You can’t use anybody else’s passport. You have to have your own. It must be current. It must not be a fake or forgery. It must be recognised by the government. Without the right passport there is no entry into God’s kingdom.
Biblical recruitment: Cross-shaped servants
- Peter Tong •
- 13 July 2015
If the human-centered approach to serving in church doesn’t happen to be the one you want to foster, then perhaps you could try these tips for encouraging a cross-shaped mindset for ministry.
Biblical recruitment: Human-shaped service
- Peter Tong •
- 10 July 2015
Most pastors at one time or another have had a conversation with someone engaged in ministry, when they tell us things aren’t going so well. It can be hard to diagnose the problem in the moment. Maybe the person is over it or burnt out, too busy elsewhere, or wanting to try something new.
Surprisingly useful advice on friendship
- Laura Denny •
- 30 September 2019
I’m reluctant to admit just how long it took before I was able to acknowledge that these “too basic to be helpful” lessons were making a noticeable difference in how I thought, acted and communicated in my friendships.
The reluctant Swedish reader
- Carl Matthei •
- 23 May 2015
I am a reluctant convert to the Swedish Method for Bible study. I read the Briefing article all of those years ago and decided to try it out in a couple of Bible study groups. It didn’t work! It didn’t seem to make group members think deeply enough about the passage, and it seemed to promote surface-level easy answers.
Down-under round-up: 8 July 2015
- Sandy Grant •
- 8 July 2015
A collection of things worth reading from around the web in the last week.
Calling to ministry
- Tim Grant •
- 3 July 2015
Regularly when I sit down with someone, they’ll use the phrase ‘called to ministry’. I don’t have a dislike of this phrase, it can be very useful—only when most people use it, it isn’t.
The art of biblical interpretation: Inspiration and interaction
- John McClean •
- 6 July 2015
The third in this series on reading the Bible well. This time John looks at how knowing that God's word is his changes how we approach it.
Motivated, reproducing, applied Bible reading: The Swedish Method
- Peter (Pedro) Blowes •
- 23 May 2015
Bible reading with ready ears and an open heart is engaging and fruitful. There’s something fresh about letting God speak for himself, especially when you search the Bible yourself, making the effort to hear.
Five biblical ways to face death defiantly
- Hannah Ploegstra •
- 29 June 2015
Sympathy cards address the sadness death causes, but few acknowledge the rage. Yet that rage is real. It should be: death is the very opposite of God and all that he has created. We should hate it. Christ did.
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