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Why consider gender and the local church?

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 by Jane Tooher

Jane Tooher is the director of Moore College’s Priscilla and Aquila Centre. Here she shares with us a little of how this centre aims to encourage the complementarian ministry of women in partnership with men. Jane, can you tell us a bit about your…

Christian Living Doctrine Ministry

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 Ministry Youth & Kids

Teaching wisdom to our children

January 1, 2019December 18, 2018 by Kylie Yip

“A foolish son is a grief to his fatherand bitterness to her who bore him” (Prov 17:25) Too many of us know this pain first hand—the pain of watching your child make choices that are rightly theirs to make, but that you know will not end well. So far…

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…

Doctrine Evangelism Ministry

What’s with the shepherds at Christmas time?

December 16, 2018November 27, 2018 by Annabel Nixey

What’s with the shepherds at Christmas time? In his biography, Luke explains that after Jesus’ birth a crowd of angels appeared to a group of shepherds out in the countryside and announced to them that the Christ-child had been born. He tells…

Christian Living Doctrine Ministry

Biblical friendship (part 3): Cultivating friendship

December 9, 2018November 27, 2018 by Caitlin Orr

In part 1 and part 2, we looked at what a true friend is, and how Jesus is the ultimate friend. Now we’re going to think about how to cultivate biblical friendships through the lens of one of the great friendships recorded in the Bible: Jonathan and…

Christian Living Doctrine Ministry

Biblical friendship (part 2): Being a friend

December 2, 2018December 5, 2018 by Caitlin Orr

In part 1 we looked at John 15 and saw that a friend is loving, sacrificial and outward looking. The book of Proverbs fleshes out this picture of what it means to be a friend. Proverbs is immensely helpful in thinking through the issue of friendship,…