Couldn't Help Noticing
An online survey of issues, events and ideas
The longing and the library (July/August)
Karen Beilharz / 1st July 2008
The Briefing Library
Recent additions to our online archives:
- The welcoming church by Matthew Pickering (Briefing #84)
- Should we pump it up? by Edward Vaughan (Briefing #121)
- Leadership: Avoiding the pitfalls: A gospel of leadership by Michael Fischer (Briefing #298)
- Leadership: Avoiding the pitfalls: Worldly woes for Christian leaders by Matthew Malcolm (Briefing #298)
The Longing
Stuff that didn't quite make it into The Briefing:
The longing and the library (June)
Karen Beilharz / 31st May 2008
The Briefing Library
Recent additions to our online archives:
- Did Satan win? by Edward Vaughan (Briefing #61)
- He's out there by Tony Payne (Briefing #189)
- The devil unmasked by JI Packer (Briefing #189)
- The devil you know by Greg Clarke (Briefing #246)
- The living and the dead by Peter Bolt (Briefing #295)
The Longing
Stuff that didn't quite make it into The Briefing:
In addition, parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Total Church dialogue ...
All quiet on the CHN front
Karen Beilharz / 8th May 2008
Eagle-eyed CHN readers have probably noticed that not much has been happening on the Couldn't Help Noticing front for a little while now. In the wake of the launch of our new blog, The Sola Panel, we have decided to suspend activity on the CHN blog for the time being.
Those who have received the May edition of e-news will know that Paul Grimmond, Chaplain at the University of New South Wales and pastor of Unichurch, will be joining us at The Briefing later this year. When Paul comes on board, ...
Politeness and hell
Gordon Cheng / 1st May 2008
Here's a sharp and pointy statement from Charles Spurgeon about politeness and hell, two subjects that I've been thinking about lately:
Men are perishing, and if it be unpolite to tell them so, it can only be so where the devil is the master of the ceremonies.
Out upon your soul-destroying politeness; the Lord give us a little honest love to souls, and this superficial gentility will soon vanish. I could with considerable refreshment to myself pour sarcasm after sarcasm upon religious ...
The longing and the library (May)
Karen Beilharz / 30th April 2008
The Briefing Library
Recent additions to our online archives:
- How to survive your denomination (Briefing #13)
- The denomination as idol by (Briefing #13)
- The Relationship Between the Testaments: Church (Briefing #58)
- Why, where, and how should Christians meet? (Briefing #116)
- Factotum #1: The Ministry of the Pew by Colin Marshall (Briefing #131)
And, in relation to Briefing #355, more articles on music and church:
- Minor or Major?: The key to church music by John Woodhouse(Briefing #112)









