Have you ever had the wonderful experience and privilege of the Belittling, Rebellious Antichristian Troublemaking student in your classroom? As you are delivering your wonderfully prepared Scripture lesson discussing the permutations of supralapsarianism for teenagers, this teen blithely asks the disturbing question: “How do you know any of this is true? My dad reckons it’s [...]

I was talking with a young guy teaching High school scripture. He had a tremendous difficulty controlling the class. As I observed him it became obvious what the problem was: He wanted to be every body’s friend, and not the teacher of the class. He wasn’t willing to stop the young guys misbehaving, because he [...]

34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, "Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and [...]

  In the course of ministry it is often necessary to record minutes in a formal and legally binding manner. This may occur when forming boards involving finances, handling decision making processes for large groups of people in a representative manner, or when continuing formal boards that support mission. It may be  reasonable for the [...]

That everybody has “values” is obvious. It is equally obvious that there is considerable disagreement on what constitutes a valid value system. The NSW Government has recently endorsed the teaching of Philosophical Ethics in NSW Government schools.  How do we as Christians respond to this? What do Christians understand about the development of Ethics?   [...]

I have these outlines printed in my Bible for emergencies. 1. The Challenges Of Cruelty A. The Stress Of Cruel Corruption Eccles 3:16-21  Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. 17 I said in my heart, [...]

Baptists preserve entry into their churches only through conversion. The concept of a regenerate church membership is the key concept in distinguishing Baptists from many other Christian groups. Conversion into the fellowship of a church occurs when someone gives testimony to conversion, usually through demonstration of this through acceptance of believer’s baptism. (The 1689 Baptist [...]

I contend that the 3 wise men were not so wise. Matthew 2: Wise Men from the East 1    Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2    saying, "Where is He who has been born King of [...]

Pastor Steve Grose is availaible weekends for teaching missions in churches or halls throughout Australia. Steve’s Bible talks are available on his other blogs. http://stevegrose.tripod.com/ http://grosey2.blogspot.com/ You may contact him directly on 0245787308.

Try this website for free discipleship resources  http://coregroups.org/core3strand.html C3 Discipleship Process Jesus did it. Wesley did it. You can too. Jesus’ 3-Strand Discipleship The most effective manner to train and equip people for any skill is by providing effective models and opportunities to practice the skill itself. Jesus used a show, tell, release, and supervise [...]