The final home and away round of AFL for 2016, along with the penultimate NRL round. The top eights of both comps seem settled, though there are many permutations of places in the AFL with results and percentages all important. For all my bleating about the NRL, all the teams currently in the top eight …

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Being a Christian is a corporate experience with individual implications, not an individual experience with corporate implications. Peter Adam is writing a brief series about preaching. Here he addresses what it means to understand the Bible (and preaching) is “mainly addressed to God’s people, not to individuals.” Individualism in preaching [that is, merely addressing individuals] …

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Ray Ortlund writes about the messiness of real church. And the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin Real church is more than a human support group, more than empathy. The sacred blood of Jesus is here. And we bring no sin out into the light which his blood cannot cleanse away: …

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