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A Kingdom Strategy
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Every once in a while I encounter someone who reacts against the idea of the church trying to think strategically about what it does, with the unspoken implication that strategy is sort of worldly and “unspiritual”. The argument is often something along the lines that all we need to do is pray and the sovereign [...]
Drought Alert
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008We are sadly all too familiar with the word ‘drought’ because this is what most of Australia has been suffering from for many years. However, there is another kind of drought, one which affects the country, and also sometimes the church and which is far more damaging. This is the Amos-type drought which God brings [...]
What Will Jesus Get?
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008It is not uncommon to hear children (and some adults as well) ask of each other as Christmas approaches “do you know what you are getting for Christmas?” This is because our culture teaches and models that Christmas is about ‘getting’, about what we will receive – and this is reflected in the billions of [...]
Do Not Hinder The Children
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008At CCC we are truly blessed by the growing number of children attending our children’s ministries each weekend, and it is a great joy to see this ongoing increase. The Bible has many things to say about children, not the least important of which we can read in Mark 10:13-16. In this incident parents are [...]
Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008At reasonably frequent intervals we introduce new songs in our services at CCC. We could in fact introduce a number of new songs every week because the production of new Christian songs is like a flood nowadays. Despite the fact however that there are so many songs being produced that no church could possibly use [...]
“Know About” or “Know”
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Many of us will know people we would call “name droppers” – those who seem to make a habit of letting others know the “important” and “influential” people they claim to have as friends, etc. In fact often the “names” claimed to be known are nothing more than casual and occasional contacts, more “know about” [...]
A Second Work Of The Spirit
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Christian jargon is something I always try to avoid, mainly because it can be off-putting to the very people who I would like to draw to Christ, as well as to new Christians. It is better that, as much as possible, our services and conversations are in the normally used language, that is, using words [...]