I cam across another useful resource for Bible students and Pastors recently. It is called the “Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies”. One of my Bible college lecturers uses it in his footnotes so I thought I would check it out. It is written by Arthur G. Patzia (Ph.D., McMaster University) who is senior professor of [...]

Back in 2004 I read Rick Warren’s very popular book “A purpose driven life”. It was a book that really impacted my life at the time. It also impacted the group of people I read it with. At the moment my wife Larissa is reading the book. Six years on she is finding many of [...]

Several weeks ago I saw a book in the Koorong catalogue that just grabbed my attention. I knew it was one I just had to order. It was called the Jesus Manifesto and is written by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. So far I have read the first 38 pages and I am really enjoying [...]

Hello all, Yesterday we uploaded the audio for our discipleship program. The booklet “A New Beginning: Setting a solid foundation for your new life in Christ” was released earlier in the year. So far it has been downloaded more than 2500 times. Recently we felt God prompting us to record the audio for each section [...]

When I did my Bible College studies a few years ago one of the books I came across was Allan Harman’s “Learning about the Old Testament”. It was one of the books used for Old Testament Introduction. The author Allan Harman is Principal and Old Testament Professor at Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Here’s [...]

Over the last couple of weeks I have been reading Roger Thoman’s ebook titled, “Simple/House Church Revolution”. I have found it quite enjoyable and very easy to read. In the first chapter he outlines a case for house churches and why they work. Things like they are Biblical, they empower all believers, they simplify the [...]

I was reading more of Frank Viola’s Finding Organic Church today. In particular I was looking at the idea of the Apostle Paul planting a new church in a town, staying with it for six or so months and then leaving it. My first thought was that they would not survive very long on their [...]