Mike Leite

The ACR Online- share the love

September 16, 2019September 3, 2019 by Mike Leite

From the very conception of the Australian Church Record on July 1st, 1880 (then known as ‘The Church of England Record’) the original founders of the ACR aimed to help the church of God “hold the Christian faith with a firm and unwavering…

Biblical mentoring: its pattern and place

January 8, 2019January 8, 2019 by Mike Leite

One of the things that I am most thankful to God for as a young Christian leader is the older and wiser men and women that God has placed in my life. More specifically, I am thankful for those three or four sage Christian men who have invested their…

Christian Living Doctrine Ministry

Christmas: Satan’s field day?

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 by Mike Leite

Now the title of this article might appear a little too shocking for the ‘merry’ Christmas season… but let me highlight some of the ways that the great deceiver tries to take our minds off Christ during the Christmas period, before suggesting…

Christian Living Doctrine

Your gut is wrong

December 4, 2018November 27, 2018 by Mike Leite

The gut plays a very important role in the day-to-day life of those born after 1980. For one, these generations are obsessed with food, with every second meal being posted on Instagram and every second TV show relating to food. But the gut also…

Ministry

Church leaders: realistic idealists

September 10, 2018September 10, 2018 by Mike Leite

Here’s a thought I’ve been musing over: leaders in ministry need to be realistic idealists. Primarily, we need to be idealists because we are gospel people. We are people of God’s word who seek to do all we do through the lens of Scripture.…

Ministry

The ‘so what’ of Easter: Part 5 – Jesus is judge

March 29, 2018March 25, 2018 by Mike Leite

Easter really happened! We spend a lot of time affirming the historical truth of Jesus’ resurrection. But what about the theological significance? And what does Easter mean for you, for me and for our world? This five-part series looks at…

Ministry

The ‘so what’ of Easter: Part 4 – A new creation

March 28, 2018March 25, 2018 by Mike Leite