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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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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 confidence”.[1]Since…
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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 LivingDoctrineMinistry

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 LivingDoctrine

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. However,…
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The ‘so what’ of Easter: Part 5 – Jesus is judge

March 29, 2018March 25, 2018 by Mike Leite

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Ministry

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

March 28, 2018March 25, 2018 by Mike Leite

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