The contemporary trend of turning everything into a measurable metric and then turning that into a replicable system which heavily implies that guaranteed success will be experienced wherever it is repeated weighs heavily in a context like long-term pastoral ministry. Murray Lean observes a crushing burden that can descend on pastoral life. The rise of …
I haven’t seen the last couple of months as the beginning of an online ministry to the world. The videos that have been produced to substitute for corporate worship are as authentic expression of what we do Sunday by Sunday as we’ve been able to capture. They have been for those who gather with us …
Sarah Balogh reflects on the evil that befell Hannah Clarke and her children in Brisbane last week from a personal and professional standpoint. When the question revolves around variations of what went wrong for someone to perpetrate such an act we find ourselves trying to make sense of of something that cannot be made sense …
Wednesdays I meet with local pastors to pray in the morning, and folk from MGPC to pray in the evening. Apart from Sundays my week revolves around these two gatherings. At Gospel Coalition Australia Renee Tan writes about the ways that corporate prayer deepens, focuses and develops our prayer lives. An excerpt: As we articulate …
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