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God Is Closer Than You Think
God wants to connect with us. He promises to be with us, yet somehow intimacy with God eludes us. In this extract from his new book, bestselling author John Ortberg explores how we can enjoy a vibrant relationship with the God who is closer than you think.
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Time To Close?
No one likes to hear of a church closing. But each year, hundreds of churches realise that the clock is ticking. Andy Peck examines eight key questions we need to ask before deciding to call it a day.
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One Church, Three Expressions
Continuing our Living Churches series, Tony Millin visits Glenwood Church, Cardiff – one church, three congregations.
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Surplus or Significant? Retirees And the Response of the Church
Retirees cannot be ignored. In 20 years their number will have increased by 44%, estimates suggest. While the Government sweats over pensions, the church must wake up to its older members, look beyond the stereotypes and begin utilising this silent but significant majority, argues Brian Adams.
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Fast-Track: Emerging Church
Michael Moynagh wants churches to switch significant resources into the development of Emerging Church. He claims the future vitality of the UK church depends on fast-tracking money and people now into new expressions of church. Extracted from Moynagh's new book emergingchurch.intro which is published next month - this is the last in our series of 10 articles on Emerging Church.
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Emerging Church: Insights and Concerns
Some believe them to be the greatest challenge to mainstream churches, since the birth of the Charismatic movement. But do the writers and thinkers behind emerging church have things to teach us? Or should we be wary of their approach? Andy Peck investigates.
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Rich Christian in a world of need
Mark Greene meets Kim Tan, a business man with a mission.
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The Lost Cross Of Christ
Steve Chalke's provocative book 'The Lost Message of Jesus' and his subsequent article in September's Christianity has provoked much criticism. As the debate continues, Greg Haslam highlights where he disagrees with Steve's views.
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Charismatic Spirituality
Joyce Huggett continues her series on the seven strands of spirituality. She examines Charismatic spirituality and how saints past and present have known and described the Spirit’s empowering presence.
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The Steve Chalke Diaries: Respond - Don’t React
Steve Chalke learns an important lesson in his early months of church leadership.
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Carré on Fuming
Mark Greene finds the King of cold war fiction turning the heat on America.
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Archive contentTerminal Care
The medical profession aims to help those who are dying to do so as painlessly as possible. As a hospice chaplain, Roger Harper believes that God has higher goals as he cares for those nearing life's end.
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Social Capital
"Postmodern society produces its members first and foremost as consumers - and the poor are singularly unfit for that role" Zygmunt Bauman
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Speak Up John Bull!
American futurist Tom Sine is a regular visitor to the UK. He believes that British believers have much to teach their American cousins and calls on us to stop feeling inferior and to start sharing more ministry resources to the USA.
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Capacity Building
Steve Chalke on when small is not beautiful when it comes to relating to the local authority.
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Getting Heard in Post Modern Britain
Most people in Britain don't understand what Christians would regard as basic vocabulary surrounding faith. Laurence Singlehurst looks at the way the church has adapted in the past and suggests a new vocabulary for reaching post moderns today.
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People Of The ‘Golden’ Book
Centuries before the Karen people of Burma first heard the gospel, their poetry taught of one creator God who mankind had sinned against by eating forbidden fruit.Their poets also foretold the coming of a white man who would visit with a holy golden book that contained the truth about life. Today many Karen profess to be Christians, despite awful persecution. In this extract from his book on the Karen, Benedict Rogers tells their amazing journey to faith.
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Doctors To The Mind, Body and Spirit
Meet the doctors who are committed to total well being, not just physical health - but healthy minds and spirits.
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The Black And White Gap
Black church leaders attend one conference, white church leaders a different one - not good. Jonathan Oloyede challenges the status quo and suggests practical ways bridges can be built between majority black and white congregations and leaders.
