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Dear Worthless Cockroach
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Dear Worthless Cockroach
I hope you don’t mind me following up our conversation wi…
6 years, 3 months ago
Teaching, training and why we need both
One of the central claims of The Trellis and the Vine was that Christian ministry is founded not only on preaching and teaching, but also on training…
6 years, 3 months ago
Apprenticeship to Scripture
In last week’s edition, we discussed the advantages of thinking about Christian disciples as ‘apprentices’—that is, as the kind of learners who devot…
6 years, 3 months ago
The apprentice
I received a number of requests after last week’s post on the ‘Yeah-But defence’ to say more about the little hobbyhorse I mentioned in the PS—regard…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Yeah-But defence
When someone challenges me to change the way I think or act, they can expect to meet a well-organized resistance.
They will have to punch through a l…
6 years, 4 months ago
This Corinthian life
After living in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians an awful lot over the last three years, I have realized two things—first, I’ve been living in …
6 years, 4 months ago
I'll have Claytons, thanks
It’s an ad that Aussies of my generation grew up with. Jack Thompson, in his ruggedly good-looking larrikin phase, says to the barman, “Claytons than…
6 years, 4 months ago
One-another evangelism?
In this week’s edition, I want to answer an insightful question that Dave Pitt posed after reading my piece about small groups and one-another edifyi…
6 years, 5 months ago
Where two or three are gathered
Perhaps predictably, last week’s post about ‘ministry in the year of covid19’ generated quite a bit of interest. This week’s edition is a follow-up a…
6 years, 5 months ago
Neither a prophet nor a prophet’s son
One of my hopes for The Payneful Truth is that it will be an opportunity for the very thing I discussed in last week’s edition: for us to speak the t…
6 years, 5 months ago