Hard to believe it was all the way back in 2002 that Steven Bradbury became the first Australian to win a Gold Medal at an Olympic Winter Games, and, in the process, gave us a timeless piece of vernacular to describe being in the right place at the right time to achieve an unexpected victory. …
Thom Rainer publishes yet another helpful numbered list. This one provides some observations about the problems that arise when a church becomes activity-driven instead of ministry driven. Which is to say: what happens when the church becomes slaves to maintaining their activity program instead of focussing their activities on their central mission and ministry. See …
To mark the impending release of a new EP Zac Hicks has made his two prior albums, Without Our Aid and The Glad Song available free for download from Noisetrade for the next two weeks. When I first heard these, especially Without Our Aid, I described it as “Sort of like Hillsong, but with really …
In Magnificent Obsession (Christian Focus, 2013) David Robertson seeks, in ten concise ten chapters to explain why Jesus is great. The chapters take the form of open letters, a device which allows Robertson to respond to issues raised writers such as Christopher Hitchens, along with other atheists and critics of Christianity from other backgrounds. While …
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