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Is there anyone here who used to read On Being magazine? For the final edition of that quality Australian Christian magazine, before its relaunch as On Being Alive in February 1998, the editors asked a range of Christian leaders about their expectations and their thoughts on probable trends for the Australian church. Several common perceptions stood out: an increasing reliance …
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According to Wheaton College professor Wayne Martindale, C. S. Lewis, the creator of the Narnia Chronicles, “had no natural fondness for church-going. He found the sermons often dull, and he disliked hymns and organ music, which he described as “one long roar.” He felt like “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”[1] Yet Lewis discovered the …
Let me ask you a question: What is the most important thing the church does? I expect, in any crowd, there would be a range of answers: prayer, preaching, teaching, fellowship, pastoral care, social justice, mission, evangelism. Probably not committee work, or building maintenance! Each of these features is vital to the life and effectiveness …
Talk to Blakehurst Baptist Church Leisure Group Christmas Luncheon, 16 November 2000. Psalm 139:13-14 God could have come as a preformed child, found, like Superman, in a field somewhere - arriving not from Krypton but from heaven. Or God could have immediately created a whole body, as he did with Adam when he formed his flesh …
Talk to Blakehurst Baptist Church Leisure Group Christmas Luncheon, 19 November 1998 Isaiah 9:1-2 Weary, we arrive once more at Bethlehem,Asking if this yearly journey is needful or worthwhile.But, O God! Our God indeed!As Christmas approaches our hearts start to beat to your music,And our minds acknowledge a wonder set in strawWorth a thousand journeys …
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