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Coping with Grief and Loss: How Christians and Churches Can Help
By Dr. Vivienne Mountain, PhD Grief and loss will become a more dominant part of human life soon. Rebecca Huntley's book "How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference" comes from a secular perspective. Yet, in her chapter on how we cope with loss,...
Hide This in Your Heart Sermon, Webinar, and Seminar
(Ps. 119:11 and 2 Tim. 3:14–16) By Graham Joseph Hill Hiding God's Word in your heart restores your spiritual passion. Memorizing the Bible has been proven to be an essential, life-giving practice for spiritual growth. Those who memorize passages from the Bible can...
Social change, literature and the Bible: A reflection from a small room
* Please note: At the end of this post is an audio post, for those who prefer to listen to this post rather than read it. Amor Towles’ novel A Gentleman in Moscow, explores the downsized life of the character Count Rostov who is held under lengthy house arrest in the...
Where ideas flourish
Where do ideas flourish? Do they flourish in places of hardship and hunger? Do they flourish in places of need? Necessity is the mother of invention. Where do ideas wither? Do they wither when crushed under heavy boots, By those whose imaginations have been...
15 reasons why you should go to Bible and theological college
I chose to go to Bible and theological college in my late twenties. (In Australia, we tend to call seminaries theological colleges). I’d spent close to 10 years serving with a church planting team, and felt that I needed further equipping for ministry. I also wanted...
‘Touching’ in a Socially Distant Culture
Throughout my life of walking with Jesus of Nazareth, the story in which he reaches out to touch the man with a communicable disease, and in that action heals the man, has had a profound impact on me (Mat 8:1-4). Not only did Jesus seem to have no regard for his own...
Faith, discipleship, and clarity during a time of crisis
In this unprecedented season of response to a global crisis, there is a great opportunity for us to bring hope and confidence despite the shifting landscape. Christians have an advantage, not in being better than others, but in being better off. Three important...
What it means to belong
To belong is to be at home with ourselves through others.* It is interconnection. Differences with one another do not have to mean rejection, isolation or exclusion. Differences within acceptance bring growth, where others expand us beyond who we were before. There...
Three thoughtful practices for centring in hard times
These are certainly challenging times. Each day the landscape of our lives is changing, with the government giving new information about how we should be responding in light of the coronavirus. Below are three small things I believe as Christians we can do that can...