A new little book arrived for me in the post today. It’s a devotional called Trust: a godly woman’s adornment by Lydia Brownback (who blogs here.) If you’ve read my stuff on femininity, you’ll understand why the title grabbed my attention.
Part 1, part 2, part 3 In this series I’ve highlighted that mission doesn’t need to be hinged to a denomination, yet missionaries will seek connections in terms of the capital-C Church, the organic Body.
Of the five ministry roles Paul refers to in Ephesians 4:11, present-day Protestant Christianity broadly recognises the pastor, the teacher and the evangelist in some form or other. The apostle, however, forms another biblical prototype for ministry.
We don’t visit many of our sidebar links on a regular basis, but they’re some of our first ports of call for stuff we need to know! Steve Addison recently released his book Movements that change the world, a first-rate manual for missions and parachurch. I’m hogging the Ridley library’s […]
Monday night was three hours of raw emotion at Opera Australia‘s Aïda. We’ve only been to a couple of operas but we love the way opera captures the ebb and flow of emotions in all their unbridled power!
This year at college I wrote an essay for Church History on the Gnostic and canonical Gospels. While it’s an interest area for me, I continue to be amazed by how often it comes up in pop culture and general conversations with all kinds of people. So I thought maybe […]
Christian ministers talk a lot about ‘pastoral ministry’ (running a local church) and often call it ‘the ministry’. This is the established ministry path in every denomination, and denominational trainers may even present it as definitive. However, as I explored last post, parachurch and mission do not require denominational endorsement. Still, […]
Meet Jesus at uni 