Remember the poor
Issue 341: February, 2007 |
Couldn't Help Noticing
- Where are the children?
- Anglican follies
- Learning to drive
- We can't live without Wal-Mart
- Animal activists bite Singer
- When you despair of life itself
Resource Talk
- Small group Bible studies ... if we must—Tony Payne talks about the benefits of our Interactive Bible Study Series and our Pathway Bible Guides.
Bookshelf
- Review: Introducing God—Jacky Hooper evalutes the book of the well-known evangelistic course.
The poor and the blind
- Should we remember the poor?—Brian Rosner takes another look at this age-old question.
- Then shall the lame man leep like a deer: God and the disabled—Peter turns the Bible to see how God views people with disabilities and where they fit in his plan.
- When your child has a disability—Kate Hurley shares her experiences of having a child with autism.
Pastor's Brief
- Passion and substance: three different kinds of sermons—Luke Tattersall evaluates the preaching of three speakers who have the passion but not necessarily the substance.
- Review: Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity—Andrew Moody questions whether this second volume by Kevin Giles is really a better book.
Bible Brief
- Ezekiel—20 daily Bible readings by Rory Shiner.
Epilogue
- A little piece of fun—Phillip Jensen thinks about the role of pleasure in our lives.
Web extras
In this month's web extras,
- Sandy Grant and Phil Colgan share the ‘guidelines for giving’ brochures in use at their respective churches;
- We bring you some follow-up interchange on Genesis and intelligent design;
- And as a special bonus not mentioned in the print edition of The Briefing, we have Tim Thornborough's article on Highway, a program for adults with learning disabilities run by a church in south-west London.
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