Interview with Mike Gore

Interview with Mike Gore from Open Doors Australia on the gift of the persecuted church to the church in the west. This is a breathtaking conversation on how we as disciples need to wake up to what it means to be a disciple.

DISCIPLESHIP IS FOR ALL AND NOT THE FEW

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For many with disabilities, seeing where they fit into the big story of the Bible is hard, especially when they can barely see where they fit into the church.

Apprenticeship as Discipleship

Cris Rogers interviews John Mark Comer, Author of “God has a name” and pastor of Bridgetown Church Portland on the topic of apprenticeship as discipleship.

Surrendering all to Jesus

Cris Rogers interviews Danielle Strickland on what ‘real’ discipleship is and the importance of surrendering all to Jesus.

FOUR THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID

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I wonder how often we misquote Jesus without even realising it. Could it be that we think we know what Jesus said but for some reason we have the wrong end of the stick. Someone once said to me, ‘as Jesus said spare the rod, spoil the child’. Wow! Taken aback I made sure they […]

Where’s your garden?

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The bible begins with a regular encounter that took place in a garden, In the opening lines we see that God originally walked with Adam and Eve in a garden. Genesis 3: 8-9 “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the […]

Help, I have a young family…

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I love the verse from Matthew 22:37 “Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind… ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.” Or as the disciple-shape tool showed us. Love God with your head, heart and hands. That is the teaching, there’s nothing new there. […]

Your Counting Ability

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James tells us to ‘confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed’ (James 5:16). And I think this provides a great model for how we can move forward in this area…

HOW TO STOP MOVING

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Modern life is busy, some of it busy for work, other times busy for family and sometimes a little busy for us and maybe a little for Jesus. Busyness for some of us makes us feel wanted, needed or appreciated. We think that if we are busy we must be proving our existence. But our identity isn’t found in how busy we are.