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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…

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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…

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Youth & Kids

They Shall See His Face: A review by Claire Smith

December 4, 2018November 15, 2018 by Claire Smith

You may never have heard of Amy Oxley Wilkinson (1868–1949), although it’s possible you know of her great grandfather, Rowland Hassall—one of the first missionaries to come to Australia after fleeing trouble in Tahiti—or his son Thomas, who…

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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,…

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Doctrine Evangelism The Vault

Evangelism: What is it?

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 by ACR Team

‘Evangelism’ has recently risen to the status of what Stephen Potter would call an “OK word”: to utter it is to be ecclesiastically ‘one up’ straight away. (Things were different 20 years ago.) The term stands for something that the modern church…

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Christian Living Ministry

Biblical friendship (part 1): What is a friend?

November 25, 2018November 26, 2018 by Caitlin Orr

Over the past few years several studies have shown that social isolation and loneliness poses a bigger risk to our health than smoking or obesity. Loneliness has the same effects on your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It increases your chances…

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Christian Living Evangelism Ministry Youth & Kids

Considering Christ with your children at Christmas: An advent Top 5

November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 by Jocelyn Loane

It’s not like Christmas sneaks up on you. I think my first mince pie sighting this year was in early October. By November I find I can’t resist the urge to buy more gift tags at every single check out display, in case we are gripped by a nation-wide…

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