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* Unknown author Ishmael (otherwise known as the Revd Ian Smale) is synonymous with creative and vibrant children’s ministry. In this extract from his book ‘Reclaiming A Generation’, he calls renewed churches to include children when they pray for people to be filled with the Spirit. And as for the gift of tongues, why not?
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* Unknown author With one in six fathers not living with their children, Mark Stibbe looks at those who are wounded and reminds all Christians of an attribute of God that is often overlooked.
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* Unknown author Changes to the law affecting charitable giving provide new opportunies for churches to increase their income. Redina Kolaneci unpacks the new legislation and new trends in the ways Christians give.
Issue published June 2001
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* Unknown author Dave Roberts is worried that our apparent evangelical health might mask a deadly sickness underneath.
Issue published June 2001
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* Unknown author Continuing our Living Churches series, Patrick Forbes visits a church in Liverpool with a vision to reach the city and where the young people have a ball.
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* Unknown author Gerard Kelly continues his look at the challenges of change, culture and technology by asking what can the church learn from Comic Relief.
Issue published June 2001
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* Unknown author Mark Greene on the sacred-secular divide – which according to him provides the greatest cultural challenge facing the church today.
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* Unknown author In his series examining people and issues in the news, Steve Chalke considers Roy Clements and the Church and the Homosexual debate
Issue published June 2001
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* Unknown author Sad but true – ten out of ten people die. But out of the cloud of bereavement can come the silver lining of opportunity. Jenny Baker spoke to Christians who have a ministry to the mourning and who have lessons to teach the wider church to improve our pastoral care of those who are touched by death.
Issue published June 2001
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* Unknown author Mild mannered nice guys or half-hearted pressed men – what does it mean to be a man in today’s church? Catherine Butcher meets author and coun-sellor John Eldredge, whose latest book invites men to recover their masculine heart.