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More than friends

This is adapted from a talk I gave recently.

Introduction

Many of us have been around our local church for a long time. Some of the people we see at church have grown up with us since childhood. Others may have joined while we were at school, where w...

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God's Instruments for Change

The following is adapted from a talk I gave last year. If you want to know more, see Paul Tripp's excellent book, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands.

Look around...

Look around the people at your church. What kind of people do you see?

Pretty nice p...

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Book reviews: On introversion

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking

Title Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking
Author Susan Cain
Pages 352
Publisher Viking
Year 2012
ISBN 978 0 670 91676 4
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Introverts in the Church: Finding our Place in an Extroverted Culture

Title Introverts in the Church: Finding our Pla...

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Book review: The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

The Freedom of Self–Forgetfulness: The Path to True Christian Joy

Title The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: The Path to True Christian Joy
Author Timothy Keller
Pages 48
Publisher 10Publishing
Year 2012
ISBN 978 1 906173 41 8
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There are two kinds of people in this world--th...

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A model for administering independent churches: how it works

This is the second in a series of posts on a model for administering independent churches.

My previous post described the problem that independent churches face in their governance structures. Briefly, we want financial management, etc., to be the re...

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A model for administering independent churches: some preliminaries

This is the first in a series of posts on a model for administering independent churches.

Before we go on describing what the model is like, I will need to explain what I mean by an independent church, and why a different model may be useful.

What is...

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A model for administering independent churches

It's been a long time since I've posted here. That's because I had, until now, nothing much useful to say. (Plus the fact I was writing reports and Board papers at work all the time, which diminished my enthusiasm for writing.)

Anyway, I've been mull...

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Conversations with Mormonism

About half an hour ago I had a fascinating and pleasant conversation with two Mormons, who were apparently visiting someone from their church. I think we had about a 10 minute conversation about our beliefs. A few dot points from things that struck m...

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Biblical theology in mainstream media

Earlier this week Joe Hockey made a speech to the Sydney Institute titled In Defence of God. In the speech he called for, at the risk of oversimplification, a more liberal theology of God.

Today's letters page in the Sydney Morning Herald has a secti...

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SCCCA North-West Evangelism Workshop

At the SCCCA training workshop a few Wednesdays ago, Tom Tokura led a really useful workshop on evangelism.

He has kindly shared a copy of the presentation. Hopefully you will find it as useful as I have.

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