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• Tony Payne
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• 1 June 2009

Quick quiz: of all Matthias Media's different resources—now more than 200 of them—which do you think is the all-time bestseller? Is it:John Chapman's A Fresh StartJohn Dickson's A Sneaking SuspicionRay Galea's Nothing in my hand I bringThe Just for Starters basic Bible studiesThe answer is, in fact, ‘e: None of

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• Lionel Windsor
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• 1 June 2009

A tree is good (Gen 1:12). A tree is beautiful (Gen 2:9). A tree is for food (Gen 1:29). A tree is a blessing from God for his creation, even in those wild places where no human being has set foot (Job 40:20-22). A tree is for birds

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• 1 June 2009

I suspect I might be the ‘elderly relative’ referred to in the article by Tony Payne on ‘This is not real church’. But even if I’m not, I want to comment on the change of ‘doing church’ over the years and the cut-down New Testament church of today. Tony

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• Paul Grimmond
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• 1 June 2009

I was talking to a friend the other day who told me this story: I was in a prayer meeting this week with a lady who asked us to pray for her relationship with her parents. They were getting divorced after having been married for several decades. She doesn’t live at home anymore,

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• 1 June 2009

I’ve known these girls for over half my life. Our friendship has persisted beyond high school, through tertiary education and into the workforce. We’ve gone on holidays together, we’ve gathered for movies and dinners (and deconstructed those movies over dinner), and the sum total of our paper and electronic correspondence

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• Paul Grimmond
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• 1 June 2009

It was one of those moments that scratches itself into your mental furniture as if a bored adolescent with a sharp instrument had been let loose in your brain. I was sitting in a first-year church history lecture, and the lecturer asked us to “Put down your pens, turn to

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• Michael Jensen
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• 1 June 2009

It would not be too far-fetched to claim that the idea of Christianity as a doctrinal faith has become deeply unfashionable. It is not so much that individual doctrines are under attack (though they are), but rather that the idea of Christian doctrine as a set of truths is under

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• 1 June 2009

There seems to be a restlessness—an unease—among younger evangelicals. Something is wrong with the way we do church. How can we fix it? Can I say very clearly how wonderful I think this is? We should always be self-reflective—self-evaluating—measuring our ministries against God’s word and making changes to reach people.

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• Tony Payne
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• 1 June 2009

When I hear the word ‘abomination’, a vivid image comes to mind. Perhaps it’s from a comedy sketch on TV. I see a man dressed in old-fashioned black clothes, with a black hat and, in reference to some aspect of modern culture (perhaps homosexuality), he declares in a slow, but passionate voice, “It is

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• Peter Bolt
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• 1 June 2009

You read what you hear. Even with the Bible, you read what you hear. Let me explain. Study leave got me to England in 10 inches of snow. Beautiful. Because it closed the airports, it almost got me to France. How would I have explained that to the college board?

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