Discipleship ideas

Mar 19, 2025

I have it on good authority* that churches with a healthy evangelistic culture would typically expect to see five adults**...

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Jan 15, 2025

Scriptural genealogies—in addition to being a public Bible reader’s worst nightmare—have a bit of a reputation for being boring. I...

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Nov 27, 2024

You're not my king!

In case you’ve forgotten due to political drama elsewhere, our monarch visited Australia recently. It went largely as expected, but...

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Oct 10, 2024

The final leg of my travels to the Evangelize 24 conference involved an Uber ride from the airport. As it...

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Jul 29, 2024

It’s a sunny Sunday morning as you file out of church and head for the coffee. As soon as the...

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Jul 16, 2024

Perhaps you can help me. I’m trying to think of a word that starts with C. Why? Because I want...

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Dec 05, 2023

If the Christmas season had a favourite Bible passage, you’d have to say it was Luke chapter 2, wouldn’t you?...

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Nov 30, 2023

Working on our theology of work

As you may know, I’ve been involved in the publishing ministry of Matthias Media for a few decades now. What...

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Aug 31, 2023

Resourcing gospel clarity

The fact that you’re reading this email suggests to me you share our conviction that making and growing disciples of...

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Aug 01, 2023

Why I can't love my neighbour

When I googled “the most famous parables of Jesus”, the list I found had the Good Samaritan at the top,...

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