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.

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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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Getting ready to forgive

  • David Mears
  • 26 June 2015

"Do we have to forgive people who aren't sorry?" How would you respond? Our instinct can be to rush in with some kind of ‘yes/no’ answer. What we may fail to do is consider whether or not answering the question as asked is the most helpful response.

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Down-under round-up, 24 June 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 24 June 2015

Charleston, forgiveness and safety, the idolatry of guns, making disciples, serving in your local church without going under, the conversion of the wallet, the Proverbs 31 man, how the church can help gay young people, how to be a welcoming and biblical church, and the GoThereFor 2.0 launch.

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Making Disciples

  • Colin Marshall
  • 5 April 2018

8 Bible studies unpacking Jesus' great commission for our lives and churches.

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The art of biblical interpretation: Inspiration and our attitude

  • John McClean
  • 22 June 2015

The traditional Christian view of the Bible is that it is God’s word. Some churches recognize this by finishing each Bible reading with “This is the word of the Lord”. What does it mean for how we read the Bible?

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Down-under round-up: 10 June 2015

  • Sandy Grant
  • 10 June 2015

I’m reversing the order this week, since ‘for better or worse’ the issue of last week won’t go away, but tends to take the spotlight off our positive gospel work.

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Cross-shaped mission (statements)

  • Tony Payne
  • 16 June 2015

What we believe deep down always bubbles to the surface, whether in an idle word or in the way we behave. In particular, what we believe theologically will inevitably be expressed not only through what we say but in how we do things. And when we behave inconsistently with our stated convictions, it reveals the struggle that goes on within all of us below the surface—the struggle to believe the truth.

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The question of the millennium

  • Stephen Leston
  • 15 June 2015

Matthias Media recently published a book by Steve Morrison called Born This Way, addressing the issue of same-sex attraction by examining both the scientific studies and what God says in the Word. After reading the book, I felt the need to write a short post to encourage others to read it too (no, I wasn’t asked by Matthias to do so!).

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I now pronounce you more mature in Christ

  • Chris Drombetta
  • 8 June 2015

I want to let you in on a little secret that exists among Christian pastors. We don’t like premarital counselling.

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