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• Paul Grimmond Name ‘em and shame ‘em?

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From the Current Issue Borers in the pulpit?

Rob Smith / 1st June 2009 Boring sermons are often the bane of church life. However, it need not be so. Rob Smith offers some reflections on how preachers can minister the word of God more faithfully and more effectively.

There's an old joke about churches being afflicted either by borers in the pulpit or white-ants in the pews, or worse, both! Of course, the joke touches on what is, for many, a raw nerve—preachers frustrating their congregations with tedious, abstract and irrelevant sermons, and congregations ... read more

The tract is back Tony Payne / 1st June 2009 Quick quiz: of all Matthias Media's different resources—now more than 200 of them—which do you think is the all-time bestseller? Is it: a. b. c. d.

John Chapman's A Fresh Start John Dickson's A Sneaking Suspicion Ray Galea's Nothing in my hand I bring The Just for Starters basic Bible studies

The answer is, in fact, ‘e: None of the above’. The all-time bestseller, by a country mile, is the humble Two ways to live tract (now published as Two ways to live: the choice we all face). We sell hundreds of ... read more

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