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Sharing Jesus with the Deaf: An interview with Darren Kirkegard

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 by Darren Kirkegard

What would it be like to share the gospel with someone who can’t ‘hear’ the gospel? ACR talks to Darren Kirkegard about ministry among the Deaf community*. 1) How did you come to be involved in ministry with the Deaf? Entirely God’s…

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Christian LivingEvangelismMinistry

The “new normal” and the same old story: Evangelism in a virtual world

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 by Lionel Windsor

“I just want to see my friends!” This was the frustrated—and completely understandable—cry from one of our teenagers as we entered another week of isolation with no clear end in sight. Although these friends had been chatting (and…

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Christian LivingDoctrine

The bread and butter Christian – Psalm 136

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 by Ben George

How much is thankfulness part of your life as a follower of Jesus? How much, in our current situation, are you tempted to grumble? How much do you focus on the negative and lose sight of the positive? These questions are significant because giving…

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Ministry

A new culture of one-to-one ministry under lockdown

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 by Stephen Anderson

“How can we stick resolutely to our marching orders, now that proper ‘churching’ in person is impossible?” Like every other church, we asked numerous such questions as the global pandemic gathered its eerie pace in what now seems almost…

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Christian Living

You are enough, and other lies we like to swallow

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 by Jocelyn Loane

I don’t know about you, but the recent months of school at home exposed some pretty ugly cracks in the façade I’d created for myself of being a good mother. It’s much easier, it turns out, to parent your children when they aren’t in the…

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Ministry

Re-gathering in the Northern Territory: the new normal for St Peter’s Nightcliff

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by Joshua Kuswadi

For 11 weeks our church gathered virtually for live-streamed services filmed in our church building. When the Northern Territory announced its ‘Roadmap to the new normal’, we realised we couldn’t allow as many people into our church…

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Doctrine

Glory of Christ – Part 1

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 by Andrew Leslie

In the first of these reflections, we might begin by considering the way in which Christ is the only representation of God’s glory to his people. When Jesus speaks of “my glory” in John 17:24, that can be thought of either in terms of the essential…

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