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Holding onto the gospel: The challenge of preaching Jesus in South Africa
- Paul Grimmond •
- 1 October 2009
Grant Retief has been working as a pastor and church planter in Durban, South Africa, for the past 12 years. In this interview, he talks with Paul Grimmond about the enormous social issues in South Africa, and what it means to hang on to the gospel and serve people there.
For those with eyes to see
- Tony Payne •
- 1 October 2009
It starts with trying to read the microwave instructions on the back of the packet in the kitchen, and having to move into some better light. Then you notice you're habitually setting the zoom in Microsoft Word to 200 per cent. The crunch comes when it starts to affect the
Power to witness
- Phillip Jensen •
- 1 October 2009
Have you ever felt powerless? Have you ever felt weak in the presence of others? Do you feel overwhelmed by the non-Christian world around you? Do you feel that your testimony to Christ is too weak and feeble to mention, and that the criticisms of Christianity are too loud, vocal
Laying the foundations at Church by the Bridge
- Paul Grimmond •
- 1 September 2009
On the 6th February 2005, a small group of 42 people from St Thomas's North Sydney met for the first time in the little church building on the main street of Kirribilli. According to their pastor, Paul Dale, the focus was to try and be a local church in the
Fighting the new fight
- Tony Payne •
- 1 September 2009
If you were a youngish Christian in the 1980s, it is almost certain that, at some point, someone would have pressed a copy of John White's The Fight into your hands and urged you earnestly to read it. It was simply one of the standard Christian books of the era,
Women, awkwardness and one to one
- Isobel Lin •
- 1 September 2009
A friend of mine meets women from her church on a regular basis to catch up and pray. But she reads the Bible with them only occasionally when certain issues come up. It’s not because she isn’t committed to teaching the Bible; on the contrary, she is a women’s pastor
Sticking it to the man
- 1 September 2009
It is almost a given today that history is oppressive. That is why there has been so much hoo-ha about how it has been taught over the last 30 years. Everybody wants their say: if you’re a woman, you need a woman’s history; if you’re gay, you need a queer
One to one: The essential ingredient of pastoral care
- 1 September 2009
The Lord Jesus took hold of my life in 1983 when I was in my final year at school. I had been inoculated against the gospel through repeated small doses of school chapel over the previous ten years, and the message I’d heard had led me to believe that God
Why we still need ministry apprenticeships
- Colin Marshall •
- 1 September 2009
The Ministry Training Strategy has been around now in some form or another for 30 years. (We put on the first ministry apprentices at the University of New South Wales in 1979.) Today (as there always have been), there are questions about the value of doing a ministry apprenticeship. Is
Gospel Convictions: Revised
- Tony Payne •
- 1 September 2009
When we distributed a draft version of our ‘Gospel Convictions’ statement in our 21st birthday issue (in April this year), we hoped that our sharp-eyed, Bible-tuned Briefing community would help us improve the statement with their feedback. We haven’t been disappointed! Our sincere thanks to all who took the time
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