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Mike loves to help people grow in their knowledge and love for Christ and is the senior minister at Hope Anglican Church Leppington. He is married to Emily and together they have four children. If he gets the chance, Mike enjoys going for a surf.

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Journal – How to preach truth yet teach falsely

June 13, 2023June 13, 2023 by Mike Leite

In Spurgeon’s Lectures to my Students, in ad­dressing the matter of ‘The Sermon’, Spurgeon exhorts his students ‘to give a clear testimony to all the doctrines which constitute or lie around the gospel.’ His point is simple. Some preachers…
Christian LivingChurch History

Easter: It really happened! But so what?

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 by Mike Leite

When it comes to the resurrection of Jesus, most contemporary Christian writing has been centred on its historicity. Preaching often tends to focus on the historical details and the fact that it really happened, rather than its meaning. As…
Christian LivingDoctrineEvangelismMinistry

What are we unable to stop speaking about?

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023 by Mike Leite

Every time I read Acts 4:20 I am struck by how the message about Jesus should work. As the book of Acts begins, what Peter makes clear in each of his first Christian sermons is that Jesus is both Lord and Messiah. For example, Acts chapter 2 and the…
Christian LivingDoctrine

The worst of all nightmares!

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 by Mike Leite

What is your worst nightmare? We all have those trivial nightmares. Falling into an endless pit. Being encircled by sharks. Waking up with a nest of spiders on you (which happened to me for real at beach mission one year!). But if I were to ask you…
Christian LivingYouth & Kids

Interview – Bible Reading with the Leite Family

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 by Mike Leite

Emily and Mike, Can you tell us a bit about who is in your family? And what does family Bible reading and prayer currently look like in the Leite household? We have four active kids, two boys (aged 11 and 5) and two girls (aged 9 and 7). Currently we…
Christian Living

How I came to know Jesus – Mike Leite

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 by Mike Leite

The story of God’s grace and mercy in bringing me to faith in Jesus is very ordinary. Ordinary in the sense that mine is not a spectacular conversion story. God used ordinary means. He used ordinary people. And thus, mine is an ordinary story. And…
ACR Journal

Are we antinomian? Final salvation and good works

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by Mike Leite

Introduction In the preface of the book A Faith that is Never Alone, Andrew Sandlin asks the question, ‘does the Protestant idea of justification negate the necessity of good works?’.[1] This indeed has been a common accusation against the…

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