Missional Matters #22 - Encouragement & Strategy
What does it take for a church to be active in global mission? Mordecai a central character in the Old Testament story of Esther gives...
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Cavy Baptist
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
Missional Matters #21 - Take a Stand
How does God work in the world? In the Old Testament story of Esther, God isn’t mentioned, but we see signs of His activities everywhere....
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Cavy Baptist
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Missional Matters #20 - The ANZAC sacrifice
ANZAC Day is about remembering not celebrating. Originally established to mark the landing of Australian New Zealand Army Corp forces on...
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Cavy Baptist
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
Missional Matters #19 - The Easter challenge
Easter seems an obvious time to share our faith. But, it’s also a challenging time, compared with say, Christmas. Over the last few years...
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Cavy Baptist
- Mar 5, 2021
- 1 min
Missional Matters #18 - Out of time
I recently turned 60… It’s a time to reflect, to count blessings so far. It’s also a time to consider my remaining years. Life is a...
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Cavy Baptist
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
Missional Matters #17 - One way ticket
My family had a wonderful Northland holiday in January. Apart from being warm in the Bay of Islands, it was really interesting to learn...
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Cavy Baptist
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #16 - Christmas for everyone?
It’s easy to forget about others at Christmas. It goes something like this: If we can afford it, we spend $100s or $1000s on ourselves...
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Cavy Baptist
- Nov 5, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #15 - Churching the greens (or greening the church?)
I’d love to see ‘greens’ in church, worshipping the Creator. By ‘greens’, I mean people passionate about the environment. We’ve seen huge...
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Cavy Baptist
- Oct 1, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #14 - The political Jesus
Some Christians say, 'Jesus was not political…' However, this misrepresents both Jesus and politics. Jesus’ life and teaching was...
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Cavy Baptist
- Sep 3, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #13 - An attracting vision?
Recently in a sermon, I asked ‘What is your vision for God’s mission?’ It seemed a reasonable question, as we started our Global Mission...
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Cavy Baptist
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #12 - Becoming an alongsider
We’ve all heard of insiders and outsiders, but what about alongsiders? Insiders are people who belong to a group, know what’s going on...
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Cavy Baptist
- Jun 11, 2020
- 3 min
What God Has Called Us to Be...
Hi everyone, For many in our nation, the fact that we can get back to Church means nothing, after all they have been able to get back to...
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Cavy Baptist
- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #11 - A digital Jesus?
Churches have not met in the flesh for 10 weeks. During this time churches globally moved quickly into having a web-based presence, ours...
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Cavy Baptist
- Jun 4, 2020
- 3 min
Time to digest heaven’s food.
Diagnosis before remedy The deeds of the flesh are in opposition to the fruit the Spirit. Galatians 5:15…17 It looks and sounds a bit...
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Cavy Baptist
- Jun 2, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #10 - Encourage your workers.
Covid lockdown taught us about essential workers. Confined to home, our basic needs still needed to be met. Food was the big one… grown,...
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Cavy Baptist
- May 26, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #9 - You feed them
About 15 people die every minute from hunger or malnutrition globally. The trouble with stats is they hide the personal. As Joseph Stalin...
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Cavy Baptist
- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #8 - Make it personal
Missional activities involve all sorts of people doing all sorts of things. We have different personalities and skill sets… extrovert or...
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Cavy Baptist
- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #7 - Faith that matters
There’s lots of speculation about life after Covid. Some crystal-ball-gazers think life will return quite quickly to business as usual....
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Cavy Baptist
- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #6 - Take a risk
Life is full of risks. It’s been interesting to see how different people and countries have approached the Covid-19 crisis. Everything...
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Cavy Baptist
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
Missional Matters #5 - COVID & God?
Why does God allow COVID-19? Sooner or later someone will ask you ‘If God is a God of love, why does he allow suffering?’ This could...
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