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The gospel and the quiet time

  • Paul Grimmond
  • 1 January 2009

Regular Bible reading and prayer constitute the bread and butter of the Christian life, yet these are the things most of us struggle to do from day to day. Paul Grimmond takes another look at the problem, and discovers that quiet times are all about our response to the gospel.

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Review: "Vintage Jesus" by Mark Driscoll

  • 1 January 2009

Vintage Jesus: Timeless answers to timely questions Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears Crossway Books, Wheaton, 2008, pp. 256. It is easy to like Mark Driscoll. How can you not like someone who founded a megachurch in his 20s, who has the flare of a stand-up comedian, and who

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The Swedish Method

  • Peter (Pedro) Blowes
  • 1 January 2009

Want to read the Bible with someone? Go Swedish, says Peter Blowes. For 19 years, I worked in Argentina in a context where many university students were unaccustomed to reading. Bible studies in that country (with its strong Catholic influence and practices expressed in the current evangelical style) were often

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Just how sovereign is God?

  • 1 January 2009

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The image of Jesus?

  • Phillip Jensen
  • 1 January 2009

Consider this pew sheet from a suburban church: Today’s Gospel passage portrays a very human Jesus—a Jesus who, in rejecting so rudely at first the pleas of the Canaanite woman for healing for her daughter, reveals the prejudices of the conservative Judaism of his time, no doubt learned implicitly as

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Is the gospel still for the Jews?

  • 1 January 2009

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Is church for evangelism?

  • Simon Manchester
  • 1 January 2009

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Doing little things well

  • 1 January 2009

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So you think you can spell?

  • Peter Bolt
  • 1 January 2009

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10 ways to discourage your husband in ministry

  • 1 January 2009

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