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Briefing 358-9
July 2008

Phillip D Jensen
The strategy of God
Stuart Heath
Doing good: The shape of the Christian life (Part 1): Why we don’t
Archie Poulos and Gordon Cheng
The broken marriage of preaching and pastoring

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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:

Nothing in my hand I bring: Ray Galea talks to ...

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:

Magic by Kirsten Birkett (from the 2005 EQUIP conference).

In addition, parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Total Church dialogue ...

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 ...