Thom Rainer featured a post recently about ‘Guest blindness’, the inability to perceive our churches the way that newcomers see it. A local church gets used to its culture and facilities and can overlook a lack of hospitality or incremental decline. Over time a pastor who worked away on these issues develops fatigue about having …

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Mark Peterson of Holy Trinity, Adelaide Australia offers some observations about music and worship from the perspective of the ‘trellis’ and ‘vine’ perspective of church life. In the article Peterson considers music in worship from the perspectives of preparation and presentation, as well as its content and purpose in usage. There are both trellis and …

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Friends in Victoria and beyond will be interested to know that Tom Cannon (currently pastor of Red Mountain Presbyterian Church) has been nominated as the next Coordinator of the Presbyterian Church in America’s Reformed University Fellowship, a ministry with staff members working at over 140 colleges and universities. Apparently the nomination needs to be confirmed …

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