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01/12/08 | John Sandeman
In the new world of church planting, this pewsitter should have learnt by now not to be surprised by anything.
Sometimes the reason we might not be heard could be the offence of the gospel. Yet negativity and nit-picking arguments can also cause offence. Poor behaviour…
Devotion to the mother of Jesus and the dogmas and practices that have arisen to support such piety have been the cause of division in the Church for centuries,…
“Southern Cross is just a load of propaganda” – the words came hurtling across my dinner table a few weeks ago. From a theological college lecturer,…
Sometimes being in an organisation while holding strong views can be uncomfortable. At the end of a Moore College lecture on women’s ordination I caught…
Many people don’t bother with locks. Recently I spoke to a friend who, with his wife was travelling next day to Indonesia on behalf of a missionary society.…
When was the last time you cried in Church? When was the last time you got angry – or embarrassed? If the answer is ‘never’ or ‘a long time ago’…
Evangelicals can’t welcome all of the new Pope’s ‘conservative’ agenda says Margaret Rodgers.
Are the demands lay people place on clergy too high?
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