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Mirrors 16th February 2012

by Mikey Lynch, Campus Director of University Fellowship of Christians I 1 week ago I 2 Comments

A series of great lectures/sermons on Christian ministry that Phillip Jensen gave in the UK: Shepherds: including a rant against modern counseling and how the church is stuck in therapeutic mode, even as secular counseling has begun to abandon it.. Also a great challenge to think biblically about pastors (=shepherding).… Keep Reading >>

What’s your growth dynamic?

by Al Stewart, Geneva Push Director I 1 week ago I 3 Comments

Any church or ministry needs to have a growth dynamic. What I mean by that is you must have something about the church or the ministry that will bring you into contact with people. I know people who are theologically astute will say, “We preach the gospel – that will… Keep Reading >>

If you're a pastor or aspiring pastor within striking distance of New England, let me encourage you to check out the 2012 NECEP Pastors' Conference which will take place on May 7-8. Ligon Duncan, Al Mohler, and others will be expounding 2 Timothy with an explicit focus on encouraging preachers and… Keep Reading >>

For the final week of Mission Month at SOULIES we have each year group running a BREAK IT DOWN event (your year group, your friends, doing your thing). Here are some ideas I’m passing on to leaders for preaching short evangelistic talks to their crew. While it’s not the only… Keep Reading >>

Greetings everyone, You can always find a magazine that will (un)helpfully measure your health against some sporting great or lofty fitness regime. Ed Stetzer, our speaker at next week’s Multiply conference, does something far more helpful for church planters by measuring their health in those areas that will ensure they… Keep Reading >>

Your Wildest Dreams…

by Jai Wright , Planting Pastor I 2 days ago I 0 Comments

We’re going section by section through Deuteronomy and this week we see that our wildest dreams are on offer!  God holds out to us the perfect life. But there’s a catch.  To receive and keep the perfect life, you have … Continue reading → Keep Reading >>

Leading Aussies

by Luke Yelland , Pastor I 11 months ago I 1 Comments

A mate gave me some great insights the other day into leading Aussie’s well. Culturally Aussies will follow on the basis of relationships more than anything else. They are less likely to follow the leader out in front and more likely to follow the leader who is beside them. What… Keep Reading >>

“Culture eats strategy for Breakfast!” – Peter Drucker It seems like so many churches and pastors go on about strategy and vision. These are good things which, if used right, will help churches to impact people, cultures and cities with the gospel. But I do know of a bunch of… Keep Reading >>

Next week is The Geneva Push National Conference in Melbourne. Both Renae and I are really looking forward to it. We’ve made some good friends through the Geneva network and it’ll be a great time to catch up with some of them. It will also be a good time listening… Keep Reading >>

Author: Tim KellerCategory: Blog In the last post, we talked about a number of recent books that critique both the Cultural Transformationist and the “Two Kingdoms” approaches to Christ and culture. But for many churches and Christian leaders the issues are more practical. Is the mission of the local church… Keep Reading >>

Entertainment-saturated people who do not treasure Christ above all are like skydivers who think that the wind passing through their fingers at 120 miles an hour is the ultimate thrill of being alive when in fact they have no parachutes and the gravity that pulls them inexorably to the ground… Keep Reading >>

As a church we have recently faced the usual “Oh we are running out of money, time to talk about it again” season. This time I thought I would do some research and, as it happened, was given a book called Maximize. I still haven’t finished the book, so a… Keep Reading >>

I have just returned from the first of the Australasian Longboard Qualifying contests, held at Sandy Bay NZ. The wind was howling onshore for the whole event and the ocean was turbulent but still surf-able. The officials and the surfers could be prepared and fit the site was beautiful and… Keep Reading >>