Thanks to Graham Nicholson and the saints at Hawthorn Presbyterian Church, Melbourne for making available the audio of the whole service at which Peter Hastie was inducted as Principal of Melbourne’s Presbyterian Theological College. David Jones, Australian Presbyterian Moderator-General, preached the occasional sermon which is entitled All Change – No Change, based on Hebrews 13:8 …

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Spent a week away meeting with other church leader types. Which means that I heard this question a lot. You’d think pastors would know better. Tim Challies offers some thoughtful alternatives. He promises a second part to this post. So how many people go to your church?” That’s a question just about every pastor faces …

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Continuing on our recent strand of posts about corporate prayer, Michael McKinley at the 9Marks blog has posted Six Ways To Help People Pray: Pretty much everyone would agree that prayer is an important part of the Christian life.  And pretty much everyone would agree that most Christians don’t pray as much or as well …

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Kevin Murray posts a link to a blogpost by Stephen Hafler on the opportunities and pitfalls of short-term mission trips, particularly those from a ‘home’ situation visiting workers in the field. The questions and answers have broader application for other forms of short-term work. Karl Dahlfred writes a helpful post on writing letters (publicising) an …

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