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This pioneering history is a comprehensive account of how Australian Baptists have engaged in global mission. From the early group of women missionaries who came to be known as the five barley loaves, the story has embraced long years of service in the Indian subcontinent and subsequent mission working in other countries. Since World War II, Australian Baptists have worked in Papua New Guinea and East Indonesia and later developed work in Afri...

A progressive Christianity is not new in Australia. In one form or another, it has been around for 170 years or so. What is new about its current expression - now called progressive - is that this open and inclusive faith is coming out or resurfacing in thousands of congregations in mainline churches in Australia and around the world as a dynamic grassroots movement. In this collection of sermons and brief history of liberal/progressive Christ...

In A Chicken Can Make a Difference, 34 ordinary Australians share their extraordinary stories of life and faith. This collection features the best writing from the 2016 Stories of Life Creative Writing Awards and provides a glimpse of the many ways in which God is at work in people's lives. We find here extraordinary accounts of conversion, answers to prayer, life-changing adventures, and of God's grace in dealing with illness and loss. A simp...

Guided Meditations for Children shares a simple process that teaches children how to pray through meditation on the Scriptures. This process leads children into the Scripture scene, where they meet Jesus personally and are encouraged to talk and listen to him - which is prayer. Children will love to listen to these meditations because they love stories and because they are personally invited by Jesus to come, sit beside him, and listen to his ...

Where can Wisdom be found? Job 28.12. Wisdom is usually associated with profound knowledge acquired over time. In ancient times, however, wisdom was also discerned as a force or factor of nature. Wisdom was not only found in human minds but also in God's creation. The wise of biblical timesas distinct from prophets, priests and kingswere tantamount to the scientists of their day. And like scientists, they had a way of discerning wisdom in crea...

In his encyclical letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, Pope John Paul II reminded the faithful that the Rosary of the Virgin Mary, which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance of the Spirit of God, is a prayer loved by countless Saints and encouraged by the Magisterium. The Holy Father teaches us that to meditate upon the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary is "~to enter into the ultimate causes and the deepest meaning of Chris...

There has never been one truth, despite what people claim. Theological ideas have waxed and waned through history, taking conflicting turns with changing leaders, worldviews and political forces. This fast-paced, lay-friendly book, backed by serious, inquisitive scholarship, follows this maze, shining a spotlight into dark corners and dusty shelves to observe ideas silenced and others declared eternal. As many people walk away from churches th...

Over the past few decades, seismic shifts have changed the contours of the Anglican Church in Australia. Numbers of rural dioceses are scarcely viable, major city centres are struggling under the pressures of urban growth and multiculturalism. Harsh conservative forces are threatening the historic inclusive comprehensiveness of Anglicanism, partly in reaction to the ordination of women. Fear and anxiety about the churchs future is crippling th...

Do not be afraid, I am with you is Gods promise to Israel (Isaiah 40:10), and the first disciples of Jesus were comforted, strengthened and encouraged by his promise to be with them (Matthew 28:20). As Christians, we believe that we are continually in Gods presence not only as spirit but also in each and every person. This living faith is centred on the God-given dignity of each person and calls us to right relationships. Such relationships br...

Ministry is at the heart of churches but since the 1950s it has been a field of vigorous debate. Gateway to Renewal is John N. Collins' fifth book on the leading issues and builds from his groundbreaking research into ancient Greek terminology for ministry. Strangely, this area remains widely misunderstood at administrative and even scholarly levels of church life. Collins exposes the dynamics at play in this damaging scenario where the impact...