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Practical repentance

  • Elspeth Pitt
  • 8 August 2018

How would you describe what repentance looks like in the life of a Christian? Do you ramble on about church attendance, Bible and prayer, or do you reel off a list of dos and don’ts?

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Reading into discipleship: Relying on those ahead of us

  • Laura Denny
  • 6 August 2018

Taking the initiative and asking a fellow Christian who is further along in their walk to read with us can provide accountability, increased understanding, and growth in ways that reading and learning alone wouldn’t.

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Reassurance on assurance for tender-hearted souls

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 1 August 2018

Bible-believing Christians have always recognized the category of the tender-hearted soul. This is the true believer who is nonetheless overly anxious, almost obsessive, about their spiritual state.

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Am I reading this right?

  • Peter Baker
  • 30 July 2018

What happens when I’m not sure I’ve read the Bible correctly? What happens when the person next to me is sure that I haven’t read it correctly? How can I know I’m right?

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How to preach to the occasion

  • David Martin
  • 25 July 2018

How do you preach at a wedding? How do you give a funeral message? How do you prepare a graduation or ordination address?

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Why the Catholic Church is anti-Catholic

  • Mark Gilbert
  • 23 July 2018

The Roman Catholic Church considers itself to be the centre of, not just Christian unity, but world unity. That after all is what the word Catholic means: according to the whole. Yet many things the Catholic Church does result in great division.

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The Lord's Prayer—Part B

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 18 July 2018

Are you familiar with Part B of the Lord’s Prayer?

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Love your church’s young adults

  • Ruth Baker
  • 16 July 2018

A disparaging view of young adults is not biblical.

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Contentment is hard

  • Lee Carter
  • 11 July 2018

Why is it so difficult to resist the urge to grumble? And why does it matter?

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Assigned meaning vs inherent meaning

  • Tom Pattison
  • 9 July 2018

“You have your meaning, and I have mine.”

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