This is a complete list of the articles that are available in full text.
| When is an Evangelical? |
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| Review: Promises for future men |
Alan Radloff |
| When should I shut up? |
Alan Stewart |
| The servant's paradox: Part I |
Alan Stewart |
| The servant's paradox: Part III |
Alan Stewart |
| The servant's paradox: Part II |
Alan Stewart |
| Growing to know God |
Alison Mitchell |
| Give up your life: Ministry in the military |
Alison Payne |
| Give up your life: Overcomers Outreach |
Alison Payne |
| Self-esteem and God's esteem |
Amelia Clarke |
| Engaging with Barth |
Andrew Barry |
| One nation before God |
Andrew Cameron |
| When does life begin? The archbishop's fiat |
Andrew Cameron |
| The subversive |
Andrew Cameron |
| Doing 'nothing remarkable' on the coast |
Andrew Heard |
| A different Jesus |
Andrew Heard |
| A Christian Upbringing |
Andrew Lansdown |
| The First Duty of Fatherhood |
Andrew Lansdown |
| Homosexuality is a choice |
Andrew Lansdown |
| Making sense of disaster |
Andrew Lansdown |
| Chasing fantasies |
Andrew Lansdown |
| Sons laid down their lives |
Andrew Lansdown |
| Review: Should we write 'Christian' fiction? |
Andrew Reid |
| Review: Peretti: What's the story? |
Andrew Reid |
| Whatever happened to sacrifice? |
Andrew Reid |
| Heather has two mommies |
Andrew Shead |
| The word to the world in your lounge room |
Anne Woodcock |
| Herman who? |
Anonymous |
| On being a first-century Christian |
Anonymous |
| When church is like an ABC documentary |
Anonymous |
| How to survive your denomination |
Anonymous |
| The Denomination as Idol |
Anonymous |
| Speaking the truth in love |
Anonymous |
| Does sin disqualify you for ministry? |
Anonymous |
| Techno-prayer |
Anonymous |
| Heaven is for sinners |
Anonymous |
| How Certain Can You Be? |
Anonymous |
| Lead balloon: Motherhood and Apple Pie |
Anonymous |
| The Relationship Between the Testaments: Church |
Anonymous |
| The relationship between the testaments: Law and Sabbath |
Anonymous |
| Lead balloon: I Want the Best for My Kids |
Anonymous |
| Why do we pray? (Prayer Part I) |
Anonymous |
| Why we don't pray (Prayer Part II) |
Anonymous |
| How can we pray? (Prayer Part III) |
Anonymous |
| What to pray (Prayer Part IV) |
Anonymous |
| Published Abroad: Why, where, and how should Christians meet? |
Anonymous |
| Singing is a fellowship hazard |
Anonymous |
| Sam's story |
Anonymous |
| Warren's story |
Anonymous |
| Revelation and recovery: A wife's story |
Anonymous |
| How to read the Bible |
Anonymous |
| Helping a friend with depression |
Anonymous |
| The gospel to Greeks |
Archie Poulos |
| The One Minute Bible Study |
Archie Poulos |
| The satirical Christian |
Ben Beilharz |
| Bible Brief: Family |
Ben Beilharz |
| Planting the Café Church |
Bob Burnett |
| Unmasking greed |
Brian Rosner |
| Further Interchange on ‘The Design of Genesis’ |
Briefing Reader |
| The Busby experience |
Bruce Dingwall |
| The garden and the bush: Two ways to read the Bible |
Bryson Smith and Paul Sheely |
| Bunyan's computer |
Buddy Smith |
| Advent Calendar for 15 December-1 January |
Carmelina Read |
| 10 ways to discourage your husband in ministry |
Carmelina Read and Karen Beilharz |
| We need more churches: church planting in the Adelaide Hills |
Chris Edwards |
| Homosexuality in church |
Chris Keane |
| Teaching children about God |
Christine Jensen |
| Two commands to women |
Claire Smith |
| After the Silence: Dealing Christianly with abortion |
Claire Smith |
| The dangers of oversharing |
Claire Smith |
| Factotum #1: The Ministry of the Pew |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #2: Consumer Friendly Evangelism |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #3: One-to-one prayer and Bible reading |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #4: Praying in small groups |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #5: Church Improvement |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #6: Do-it-yourself-church |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #7: What is a leader? |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #8: Pitfalls for small groups |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #9: Ministry apprentices |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #10: Christian modelling |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #11: Models for men's groups |
Colin Marshall |
| Factotum #12: Increasing your ministry |
Colin Marshall |
| Ministry and pornography: some practical help |
Colin Marshall |
| What the church is |
D. Broughton Knox |
| The Church and the denominations |
D. Broughton Knox |
| Seven Principles of Prayer |
D. Broughton Knox |
| The Christian and money |
D. Broughton Knox |
| What is the gospel? |
D. Broughton Knox |
| The blessing of infertility |
Darren Yates |
| The Jenolan Caves Scrolls |
Dave Andrew |
| Starless City |
Dave Andrew |
| The Gift of Suffering |
Dave Andrew |
| Getting the cart before the horse |
Dave Andrew |
| Media wash-up |
Dave Andrew |
| Time ... and what to do with it |
Dave Andrew |
| Is our leadership too professional? |
David Andrew |
| Work: the big picture |
David Hohne |
| Work: the big picture unfolds |
David Hohne and Tony Payne |
| We know everyone and everyone knows us: a snapshot of rural ministry |
David Juniper |
| Reading the Bible with my boys |
David Martin |
| Review: The Trellis and the Vine (Colin Marshall and Tony Payne) |
David Mathis |
| Canberra Christian Youth Convention |
David McDonald |
| Pop goes the Gospel |
David Miles |
| Undressing pornography |
David Miles |
| The Dead Sea Scrolls again |
David Peterson |
| The very practical doctrine of total depravity |
David Starling |
| Mission in the 21st century |
David Williams |
| Jesus, the name high over all |
Denis Ryan |
| Building the Christian library: A coffee-stained gem (The Everlasting God) |
Don West |
| Interchange: Translation and the atonement |
Donald Howard |
| Blood, sweat and tears |
Donald Howard |
| Re-igniting the Spirit of prayer |
Dudley Foord |
| An evangelistic dream |
Dudley Foord |
| The perfect gift of right now |
Eddie Larkman |
| Did Satan Win? |
Edward Vaughan |
| The pornography of church growth |
Edward Vaughan |
| Should we pump it up? |
Edward Vaughan |
| Review: There's no place like home: the marvellous land of Christian parenting books |
Ellen Hrebeniuk |
| The trouble with travel |
Emma Thornett |
| Interchange: The Travel Bug |
Emma Thornett |
| Review: Do as I do |
Geoff Campbell |
| Review: The Best of Intentions |
Glenn Davies |
| Is polygamy a sin? A consideration of polygamy and the Bible |
Glenn Davies |
| Dear Briefing: Should Christians have children? |
Gordon Cheng |
| Why ministry is hard: The suffering minister |
Gordon Cheng |
| Should we tell our kids about hell? |
Gordon Cheng |
| Firing up for evangelism |
Gordon Cheng |
| Let's abolish lay ministry |
Gordon Cheng |
| Starting with God: The Bible's guide to ministry training |
Gordon Cheng |
| Preaching the gospel from Ruth |
Gordon Cheng |
| Review: Walking with Gay Friends |
Gordon Cheng |
| Hermeneutics and Christ |
Graeme Goldsworthy |
| The living God who hears |
Graham Cole |
| Review: Crucifying the blues |
Greg and Amelia Clarke |
| Review: Simply convincing |
Greg Clarke |
| Here we stand? |
Greg Clarke |
| Life Coaches |
Greg Clarke |
| The devil you know |
Greg Clarke |
| Every green plant? Drugs and the Christian |
Greg Clarke |
| Christ and culture |
Greg Clarke |
| When too much sport is barely enough |
Greg Strain |
| Diary of a ministry apprentice (Part 1): January 2008 |
Guan Un |
| "What do you say when ...?" Office small talk |
Hayley Neal |
| A spot of gardening |
Ian Carmichael |
| Godly grief |
Isobel Lin |
| The Devil Unmasked |
J. I. Packer |
| The gods of the body |
Jack Mock |
| Discipline, grace and the godly family |
Jacky Hooper |
| Is God a greenie? |
James Davidson |
| Why work? |
James Davidson |
| Does their worm really die? |
James Pietsch and Greg Clarke |
| A long, hard look at ourselves |
Jane Tooher |
| Depression and suicide |
JE Benton |
| Woman to woman: Answering the call of Titus 2 |
Jean Williams |
| Bible brief: Leviticus |
Jocelyn Williams |
| The torn curtain |
Joel Edwards |
| Where have all the false teachers gone? |
John Chapman |
| The Hard Ask: Blaming evil on society |
John Chapman |
| The Hard Ask: Disagreeing with your pastor |
John Chapman |
| Preaching Christ as Lord |
John Chapman |
| Review: Introducing God (the course) by Dominic Steele |
John Chapman |
| “What do you say when ...?” Bus stop graffiti |
John Chapman |
| Review: Not Under Bondage |
John Diacos |
| Worship and the didgeridoo |
John Dickson |
| Things to say when you are asked the question of the moment |
John Dickson |
| Loving the sinner but hating the sin |
John McClean |
| Please Send Money (P.S. I love you) |
John McClean |
| Banking everything on God |
John McClean |
| Do you believe in hell? |
John Richardson |
| The God of Word |
John Woodhouse |
| Word and Spirit: The God of Word II |
John Woodhouse |
| Word and Bible: The God of Word III |
John Woodhouse |
| Evangelism and social responsibility |
John Woodhouse |
| Experiencing confusion |
John Woodhouse |
| Experiencing God |
John Woodhouse |
| Slogans |
John Woodhouse |
| Minor or Major? |
John Woodhouse |
| The Spirit's illumination |
John Woodhouse |
| When to unite and when to divide |
John Woodhouse |
| The unity of the church |
John Woodhouse |
| Christian unity and denominations |
John Woodhouse |
| Hope for all the world? |
John Woodhouse |
| Written in Blood |
Jonathan Fletcher |
| Is the church still serious about hell? |
Jonathan Gibson |
| Jumping the gap |
Joshua Ng |
| The Sabbath Rest |
Joshua Ng |
| Bridging the gap between the Old and New Testament |
Joshua Ng and Greg Clarke |
| Telling Buddhists about Jesus |
Kanishka Raffel |
| Posting the Word: a glossary |
Karen Beilharz |
| Generation Ex |
Karen Beilharz |
| Updating the prayer newsletter |
Karen Beilharz |
| A layperson's guide to giving up your life |
Karen Beilharz |
| The joy of infertility |
Karen Galvin |
| 'He descended into hell' |
Keith Baker |
| The God who is here |
Keith Birchley |
| Review: The Boundaries series |
Keith Condie |
| Review: Depression in your church |
Keith Condie |
| WordWatch: Partner |
Kel Richards |
| WordWatch: Bowels |
Kel Richards |
| WordWatch: Cumber |
Kel Richards |
| WordWatch: Biography |
Kel Richards |
| Wordwatch: Mansions |
Kel Richards |
| WordWatch: Literally |
Kel Richards |
| Your welcome |
Kel Richards |
| WordWatch: Environmentalism |
Kel Richards |
| Opening and closing the door on grief |
Ken Churchward |
| Fellowship of Medical Evangelism |
Ken Simpson |
| Straight answers to curly questions #1 |
Kim Hawtrey |
| Isn't religion just cultural? Straight answers to curly questions #2 |
Kim Hawtrey |
| Just a matter of opinion? Straight answers to curly questions #3 |
Kim Hawtrey |
| Can you feel it? |
Kirsten Birkett |
| Review: Designer Cells |
Kirsten Birkett |
| Calling the shots: Science and ethics collide |
Kirsten Birkett |
| Can a Christian go to reiki? |
Kirsten Birkett |
| CHN: Bagging the masons |
Kirsten Birkett |
| Review: Did Christianity really decline? |
Kirsten Birkett |
| God and women |
Kirsten Birkett and Joanne Dowe |
| Evangelizing Roman Catholics |
Leon Theophilus |
| Top Shelf: Understanding Catholicism (Review) |
Leon Theophilus |
| Review: The Prayer of Jabez and other misuses of the Bible |
Luke Tattersall |
| Dancing with wolves: When false teaching is too close for comfort |
Malcolm Anderson |
| Saving the heart: What is an evangelical? (Part 1) |
Mark Thompson |
| Matters of the heart: What is an evangelical? (Part 2) |
Mark Thompson |
| Preaching to mixed congregations |
Mark Thompson |
| How to have a godly argument |
Mark Thompson |
| Review: Is there any point being 'evangelical'? |
Mark Thompson |
| Matters of indifference? |
Mark Thompson |
| Is the Reformation over? |
Martin Foord |
| Making Jews jealous: another look at Romans 9-11 |
Martin Pakula |
| CHN: New year's resolutions |
Marty Sweeney |
| 24 |
Marty Sweeney |
| Leadership: Avoiding the pitfalls: Worldly woes for Christian leaders |
Matthew Malcolm |
| The welcoming church |
Matthew Pickering |
| The Human Genome Project |
Megan Best |
| When are we human? The dilemma of embryonic stem cell research |
Megan Best |
| Dawkins's dilemmas |
Melvin Tinker |
| Teaching Scripture: An alternative to door-to-door evangelism? |
Michael Blake |
| Leadership: Avoiding the pitfalls: A gospel of leadership |
Michael Fischer |
| Top Shelf: Suffering (Review) |
Michael Hill |
| Divine Intervention: Genetic engineering and the plan of God |
Michael Hill |
| Should the stewards object? A biblical approach to gambling |
Michael Hill |
| The very practical doctrine of the Trinity |
Michael Jensen |
| Review: Drugs in the classroom |
Michael Jensen |
| Social involvement and evangelism (Part III): Some final reflections |
Michael Raiter |
| The slow death of congregational singing |
Michael Raiter |
| Bible brief: Micah |
Michelle Philp |
| The day I went to church |
Neil Prott |
| Can't read? Won't read! |
Nicole Carter |
| Relishing the Reformation |
Nigel Fortescue |
| Who was Jesus? |
Paul Barnett |
| Top Shelf: Jesus the Man (Review) |
Paul Barnett |
| We need more shack time |
Paul Grimmond |
| Where to from here? |
Paul Grimmond |
| Trusting in the dark: Some biblical reflections on depression and anxiety |
Paul Grimmond |
| Laying the foundations at Church by the Bridge |
Paul Grimmond |
| Holding onto the gospel: The challenge of preaching Jesus in South Africa |
Paul Grimmond |
| Where to, Lord? An interview with Mark Charleston |
Paul Grimmond |
| The Geneva Push |
Paul Grimmond |
| Countercultural rebellion |
Paul Grimmond |
| Naked God |
Paul Grimmond |
| Our hunger for freedom: Where to find true liberty |
Peter Jensen |
| Then shall the lame man leap like a deer: God and the Disabled |
Peter Avery |
| Ten tips for frustrated servants |
Peter Blowes |
| The Swedish Method |
Peter Blowes |
| From every nation: A Christian multiculturalism |
Peter Bolt |
| The end of quiet times |
Peter Bolt |
| Dispensing with evangelism |
Peter Bolt |
| Strange sayings about 1 Timothy 2:11-12 |
Peter Bolt |
| The view from here: How the resurrection changes your life |
Peter Bolt |
| The living and the dead |
Peter Bolt |
| Five things worth knowing about the Dead Sea Scrolls |
Peter Bolt and Greg Clarke |
| Read it aloud |
Peter Hastie |
| The reluctant evangelist |
Peter Hastie |
| More than animals: what kind of creature are we? |
Peter Jensen |
| Give up your life: Step by step to Mexico |
Peter Sholl |
| The god-buzz |
Phil Dowe |
| A silent grief: Pastoral reflections on infertility |
Phil Wheeler |
| You CAN get there from here |
Philip Miles |
| Problems with 'the call' |
Philip Miles |
| Interview: Comprehending the darkness |
Philip Mitchell and Greg Clarke |
| Leaving it all behind |
Philip Nicholson |
| God is in the house |
Philip Percival |
| The strategy of God |
Phillip D Jensen |
| John Wimber changes his mind |
Phillip Jensen |
| Taking the protest out of Protestant |
Phillip Jensen |
| Are You Ready, Mr Music? |
Phillip Jensen |
| The Risks a Preacher Takes |
Phillip Jensen |
| I will build my church |
Phillip Jensen |
| Public lies and private lives |
Phillip Jensen |
| The future of evangelical Christianity |
Phillip Jensen |
| Dear Briefing: Bible translations |
Phillip Jensen |
| Keeping it interesting as a young preacher |
Phillip Jensen |
| This present age: Our struggle not to covet |
Phillip Jensen |
| Freedom to do what you don't like |
Phillip Jensen |
| Inspired aspirations |
Phillip Jensen and Greg Clarke |
| The Spirit-filled man |
Phillip Jensen and Greg Clarke |
| The Spirit within |
Phillip Jensen and Greg Clarke |
| Raising the stakes: Why the resurrection matters |
Phillip Jensen and Greg Clarke |
| The four judgements of God |
Phillip Jensen and Kirsten Birkett |
| Have evangelicals lost their way? |
Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne |
| Four ways to live? |
Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne |
| Have evangelicals lost their way? |
Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne |
| The ESV and NIV compared |
Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne |
| Helpers and trainers |
Phyllis Mercer |
| Interchange: The Travel Bug |
Polly Seidler |
| Charged to plant |
Presiding Bishop, Church of England South Africa |
| Christ vs culture |
Ray Galea |
| Living on approval |
Ray Galea |
| Another church on Mayfair |
Richard Coekin |
| The ministry of welcoming |
Rick Lewers |
| Welcoming the newcomer |
Rick Lewers |
| Choosing Songs |
Rob Smith |
| Old Answers to New Questions |
Rob Smith |
| Was he JUST like us? |
Rob Smith |
| Getting in and staying in: The ‘New Perspective’ on justification |
Rob Smith |
| Wright up close |
Rob Smith |
| The New Perspective in action |
Rob Smith |
| Borers in the pulpit? |
Rob Smith |
| The story of the glory of God (Part 1) |
Rob Smith |
| The story of the glory of God (Part 2) |
Rob Smith |
| No golden age |
Robert Doyle |
| Martin Luther and the justification of God |
Robert Doyle |
| The church of the Holy Trinity |
Robert Doyle |
| Sexual Abuse and Confidentiality |
Robert Doyle |
| Ministers who resign |
Robert Doyle |
| How to divorce your minister |
Robert Doyle |
| The One True Worshipper |
Robert Doyle |
| Why I hate pornography |
Rory Shiner |
| A primer on trinitarian debates |
Rory Shiner |
| Review: The Twilight of Atheism |
Rory Shiner |
| Return to Colossae |
Rosemary Bardsley |
| The porn problem |
Roslyn Phillips |
| The balancing act |
Ross McKenzie |
| Published Abroad: Green with envy? |
Roy Clements |
| Review: Judging by its title |
Russell Powell |
| Not keeping up with the Joneses: The Christian practice of becoming poorer |
Sandra King |
| Needy baby, murky bath |
Sandy McMillan |
| Review: Jesus. All about life (Murray Smith) |
Scott Petty |
| Reaching out without selling out |
Shane Rogerson |
| What's stopping you? |
Shaun Potts |
| The pastor and the evangelical priority list |
Simon Flinders |
| Talking about Total Church (Part 2) |
Simon Flinders, Steve Timmis and Tony Payne |
| Diary of an urban parson |
Simon Manchester |
| Give me Fervr |
Steve Morrison |
| Interchange: The Travel Bug |
Stuart Adamson |
| Doing good: The shape of the Christian life (Part 1): Why we don't |
Stuart Heath |
| Interchange: The Travel Bug |
Suzanne Weinberger |
| Give up your life: Making the most of retirement |
Terry Morgan |
| No justification! |
The Briefing |
| Consuming joy |
The Briefing |
| Interview: Jesus the Man (ABC radio) |
The Briefing |
| Talking sex |
The Briefing |
| Two Ways to Live: Box 1 |
The Briefing |
| Making singleness better |
Tim Adeney |
| Show yourself a man: Some reflections on ministering to men |
Tim Booker |
| Social involvement and evangelism (Part I): Two strong cases |
Tim Chester |
| Social involvement and evangelism (Part II): How they relate |
Tim Chester and Tony Payne |
| The God I don't believe in |
Tony Payne |
| When in Rome ... |
Tony Payne |
| Eastern Europe and the triumph of sin |
Tony Payne |
| The Riddle of Barbara Thiering |
Tony Payne |
| Heroes |
Tony Payne |
| Fire extinguishers |
Tony Payne |
| A continuing story: 19th-century Methodists, charismatics and me |
Tony Payne |
| Is homosexuality next? |
Tony Payne |
| The alternative society |
Tony Payne |
| Confessions of a teenage praise junkie |
Tony Payne |
| Prayer, praise and singing in church |
Tony Payne |
| The rags of time |
Tony Payne |
| He's out there |
Tony Payne |
| The Ethics of Ezzo |
Tony Payne |
| Being biblical or doing what works (part 1): Do we have to choose? |
Tony Payne |
| Doing what works (part 2): The Bible's marching orders |
Tony Payne |
| On the trail of the Spirits in prison |
Tony Payne |
| Time for reformation? |
Tony Payne |
| Is this the English Bible we've been waiting for? |
Tony Payne |
| FAQs on the ESV |
Tony Payne |
| CHN: How to deal with heretics |
Tony Payne |
| Worship III: The gathering-thinking afresh about church |
Tony Payne |
| How close are we to the Bible? |
Tony Payne |
| CHN: Reason vs. prejudice |
Tony Payne |
| CHN: Chocolate and chips |
Tony Payne |
| Resource Talk: The genius of training |
Tony Payne |
| CHN: Against Religion |
Tony Payne |
| Fight the good fight (part 1): A time to break down and a time to build up |
Tony Payne |
| Fight the good fight (part 2) |
Tony Payne |
| A hitchhiker's guide to the underworld |
Tony Payne |
| Putting the ‘media’ into Matthias Media |
Tony Payne |
| Blast from the only slightly recent past |
Tony Payne |
| Dive into a book |
Tony Payne |
| Windex for ministry |
Tony Payne |
| A painful diagnosis: Overcoming Sin and Temptation by John Owen |
Tony Payne |
| Son of encouragement |
Tony Payne |
| Looking back, looking forward |
Tony Payne |
| The tract is back |
Tony Payne |
| Sick of Bible study? Read on. |
Tony Payne |
| The Briefing, to go |
Tony Payne |
| Fighting the new fight |
Tony Payne |
| For those with eyes to see |
Tony Payne |
| The book and the vine |
Tony Payne |
| Basic black |
Tony Payne |
| Thanks for everything |
Tony Payne |
| On target |
Tony Payne |
| The surprising face of Hillsong |
Tony Payne and Gordon Cheng |
| To whom shall we go? |
Tony Payne and Phillip Jensen |
| When Christians disagree |
Tony Payne and Phillip Jensen |
| Two Ways to Apologize |
Tony Payne, Colin Marshall and Phillip Jensen |
| An apologetic armoury |
Tony Payne, Colin Marshall and Phillip Jensen |
| Talking about Total Church (Part 1) |
Tony Payne, Simon Flinders and Steve Timmis |
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