STIMULUS: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice
Editorial
Laidlaw College
Volume 26 / Issue 1 / 2019
Editorial
In late 2017, Bishopdale College hosted our bi-annual School of Theology, a two-day conference where robust theological reflection is ...
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Guidelines for Contributors
Stimulus welcomes the submission of material for Publication.
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How Church Can Appeal to Young People: A Critical Comparison
Many churches and church leaders are interested in how they can best format their services and overall environment so that they might ...
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Discipleship as a “Who” Question: Bonhoeffer on Reading Scripture as the Call of the Present Christ
“Christianity without the living Jesus Christ remains necessarily a Christianity without discipleship; and a Christianity without ...
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Humility as a Hermeneutical Virtue: Karl Barth on Faith and Miracles
“For Christian faith,” Francis Watson observes, “truth is textually mediated.”[1]
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Set Your Hope On Heaven: Living Inside The Mission Of Jesus Ascended
This article is designed to connect Christological insights with some contemporary matters of Christian life and the realities of ...
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“All you need is Love” - Jesus: Living the Moral Teaching of Jesus in our Context.
Most people have a view of Jesus as one of, if not the greatest, moral teachers.
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Holistic Discipleship: Embracing the Mission of God to All of Creation Through a ‘Green’ Reading of Revelation
This article is an amended version of a paper given originally at the 2017 School of Theology held at Bishopdale College in Nelson. It ...
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Making Disciples by Performing Miracles: A Study in Mark
The two principle themes of Mark’s gospel are Christology – the person and identity of Jesus Christ – and discipleship, what it means ...
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Hearts and Minds: Leaders Reproduce Leaders
It seems that most conversations I have in church and ministry settings all converge on the same topic: leadership development.
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Ministry Corner
For this edition of Stimulus, we sat down and had a conversation with Richard Ellena, who retired at the end of 2018 after serving as ...
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SYNERGEO
“It’s not good news, I’m afraid.”
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Easter Procession
Titirangi
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The Voice: Night, Dawn, Day
Mark 16:1-8
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St Imulus: Confessions of a Bible Editor
You get to be a Saint because of all the stuff you’d done back in the days of temporal life – sometimes paid, often unpaid, honorary, ...
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Video:
Do I Choose Joy?
By the time For King and Country’s (K&C) song
Joy
burst onto my screen it had already been on top of LIFE FM’s You Chart for several ...
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Video:
Vision: Avengers: Endgame
Dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. Los Angeles: Marvel Studios. April 2019.
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Book Review: Paul: An Apostles Journey
Douglas A. Campbell
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Book Review: The Significance of the Temple Incident in the Narratives of the Four Gospels
Deolito V. Vistar, JR.
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Book Review: Heaven: An Inkling of What's to Come
Myk Habets
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Book Review: "Without Ceasing to Be Christian": A Catholic and Protestant Assess the Christological Contribution of Raimon Panikkar
Erik Ranstrom & Bob Robinson
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Book Review: Stories of Therapy, Stories of Faith
Edited by Lex McMillan, Sarah Penwarden and Siobhan Hunt
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Book Review: Collision, Compromise and Conversion During the Wesleyan Hokianga Mission, 1827-1855
Gary A. M. Clover
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