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Why bother with women's conferences?

  • Kirsten McKinlay
  • 11 May 2017

Why do we need to have a conference just for women? Why do we have only female preachers at a women’s conference?

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Social change and gospel preaching

  • Phillip Jensen
  • 4 May 2017

How does a disciple-making agenda fit with the need for us to express our love for our neighbours through engagement in social action?

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Six ways to be prepared

  • Ian Carmichael
  • 1 May 2017

One of the ways you “honour Christ the Lord as holy” as a Christian is by “being prepared to make a defense [or a ‘reasoned statement’] to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet 3:15).

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Are growth group leaders pastors?

  • Richard Sweatman
  • 27 April 2017

If so, should we start calling them pastors? If you’re a growth group leader, how would you feel about being called, or calling yourself, a pastor? If you’re a growth group member, would you call your leader your pastor?

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Truthing in love

  • Lionel Windsor
  • 24 April 2017

Have you heard the saying “speak the truth in love”? The phrase is normally used to mean something like “say true things in a charitable way”. The idea is this: sometimes you have to say hard and challenging things; when you do, make sure you’re using a gracious tone.

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How to preach through mental fog

  • Timothy Raymond
  • 20 April 2017

If you’ve preached more than, say, a dozen sermons you’ve certainly experienced mental fog. This phenomenon can cause you to panic in the pulpit, and in your panic you can make your sermon much worse.

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Review: The Beginning of Wisdom: Proverbs Vol. 1

  • Kirsten McKinlay
  • 17 April 2017

Joshua Ng gives an overview of the book of Proverbs, especially in the light of its first nine chapters.

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Glorifying God with infertility

  • Mike Taylor
  • 13 April 2017

The ‘infertilty club’ is not an exclusive one. It has many members from all walks of life, even though no-one wants to join it. But As Mike and Pip Taylor discovered, finding themselves in this unwelcome club taught them profound lessons they would never have learned otherwise.

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Easter and the dead man on the train

  • Martin Olmos
  • 11 April 2017

Easter reminds me of the most embarrassing moment of my life: the time I brought a dead man back to life just by touching him. I think it is the shock, surprise, and comedy of Easter that remind me of that day.

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Easter activities for kids

  • Carmelina Read
  • 10 April 2017

The advent calendars that children do over Christmas sometimes seem like they'll never end. It's too much for many families to realistically do a craft every day.

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