Very soon we will start to see advertisements about how many days there are until Christmas. Well, Advent is even sooner than that, so we are already preparing our annual Advent reflection booklets.
Ideal as a personal reflection, small group study guide, o...
BIBLE READING
Read Mark 5:24-34
BACKGROUND
When looking at the stories of Jesus in the gospels, we see that he always treated people according to their circumstances. He never actually operated according to a formula. Some people he healed away from the...
Our 2015/16 Annual Report features, on its cover, the Anglican Overseas Aid motto, ‘Life. Abundantly. For All.’ The motto is drawn from St John’s Gospel, so we thought that it would be good to understand it a little deeper.
This statement from Jesus comes i...
Lent is the season in the Christian calendar when the focus turns to simple living, prayer, self-examination, and fasting in preparation for Easter.
People often talk of ‘giving something up for Lent’ which is a part of its rich tradition of self-sacrifice ...
This year we are again producing our very popular Advent booklets.
Once again, we are following the traditional themes of Advent: hope, love, joy and peace. This year we have invited reflective input and images from our overseas partners as we seek to share...
In the run-up to Christmas 2015, we produced a FREE pocket-sized Advent reflections booklet called Toward Christmas: An Advent Reflection. The booklet was hugely popular, and we no longer have paper copies available, but you can download a pdf copy.
Based o...
The kingdom of God is mentioned more than 100 times in the gospels. It is what Jesus spent most of his time talking about.
But Jesus never actually defined the kingdom of God. When he talked about it he spoke in parables, often using analogies, saying, “it ...
For the 2016 Lent season, we have produced a FREE pocket-sized Lenten reflections booklet called Toward Easter: A Lenten Reflection. The booklet is not specific to the year 2016, and will still be available for future years, until stocks run out.
Based on t...
In June 2015, we wrote the following bible study that linked to our End of Financial Year Appeal theme, Helping in Hard Places. Exploring how Jesus often when to the 'margins' to serve the people that nobody else cared about, this study is also a challenge to ...
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