So, memorising Philippians is falling a little bit behind, but pondering each of these verses over and over again is an engaging activity. Philippians 1: 15 and 18, for instance. Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but other from good will… What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in …

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Karl Dahlfred posts about a common question asked of missionaries while on furlough/home assignment: ‘Are you (and your family) going back?’ Well, yes they are. But the question keeps raising a largely unvoiced assumption: Surely we will come back to “our home” eventually, won’t we? What about the children’s education? Have we thought about that? …

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Amazingly there’s a lot of support for the notion that God’s plan for the church all along was really a bunch of people sitting in a circle in someone’s lounge room, drinking coffee, singing Kumbaya and encouraging each other with what ever they think God’s been saying, either in the Bible or by any other …

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