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Supporting Christian mums returning to paid work

February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 by Ruth Baker

Mum guilt.It’s a term most of us are familiar with and it’s something that can permeate through lots of parenting choices, from the style of discipline a mum might opt for, even to taking time out of the chaos to have a coffee. But the guilt seems…

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Don’t take CMS Summer School for granted!

January 30, 2023January 29, 2023 by Ben George

I reflect on the 2023 CMS Summer School as someone who could only make it for one day. I wish I could have attended more, but I was overseas.[i] Yet, having landed in Sydney on the Monday of Summer School, I drove up to the Blue Mountains on Tuesday…

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The problem with personal Bible reading

January 24, 2023February 6, 2023 by Kirsten McKinlay

Let me be clear from the start: I think personal Bible reading is of inestimable value. In fact, as we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this year, we should be all the more aware of the immense privilege it is to pick up the…

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Make 2023 the year of truly knowing Jesus

January 19, 2023January 17, 2023 by Ben George

There is a time for everything, the Teacher of Ecclesiastes tells us. Whether it is a time for birth or for death; to plant or to uproot; to weep or to laugh; to mourn or to dance – understanding the time in which we live as we enter 2023 really matters.…

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The thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices

December 22, 2022December 19, 2022 by Angus Martin

Well, what a year! One without a lockdown. A year that had promised to be a return to the joys of normal life… whatever ‘normal’ means. I remember at the end of last year looking forward to this one with hope of it being much easier to see family and…

Christian Living Doctrine

In the spitting image of God

December 20, 2022December 19, 2022 by Bronwyn Windsor

This year on my birthday I received one of those DNA test kits – and I was so excited, I couldn’t wait to do it. I’d been wanting to do one of these for ages. The instructions directed me to spit into a little test tube and mail it off to the lab. It felt…

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The worst of all nightmares!

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 by Mike Leite

What is your worst nightmare? We all have those trivial nightmares. Falling into an endless pit. Being encircled by sharks. Waking up with a nest of spiders on you (which happened to me for real at beach mission one year!). But if I were to ask you…