What is the gospel?
Issue 343: April, 2007
Couldn't Help Noticing
- A Bible for all of life
- Remembering the disabled
- Better a hypocrite than a man who fears God?
- Being a good supplier
- Joel Osteen and American Idol
Bookshelf
- Taking the offensive (message)—Guan Un reviews Sharing your Faith with Friends and Family by Michael Green.
- Questioning Evangelism—Barry Cooper takes a look at Randy Newman's approach to evangelism.
Resource Talk
- What they do in Sunday School—Tony Payne looks at how Teaching Little Ones teaches the Bible to children.
Know and tell
- What is the gospel?—D. Broughton Knox takes a look at whether the gospel we preach is the same gospel preached by Jesus and the apostles.
- Does the Lord Jesus want me to tell my friends the gospel?—John Chapman answers one of our perennial questions about evangelism.
- Living out our hope—James Poland shows us that, when it comes to evangelism, even if no-one is asking us “What must I do to be saved?”, we are not off the hook; we're just looking at things the wrong way around.
Pastor's Brief
- Why did the sermon fail? How to critique sermons—Gordon Cheng has some alternative suggestions on how to give preachers feedback.
Bible Brief
- Daniel—20 daily Bible readings by Steve Blencowe.
Briefing Community
- Interchange—Two weighty pieces of correspondence that couldn't fit into this already bulging Interchange can be found here:
Epilogue
- A time to laugh, a time to dance—Phillip Jensen reflects on appropriate responses in the story of the prodigal son.
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