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Dwelling in His Presence

CYNTHIA HEALD 30 Days of Intimacy with God In this inspiring 30-day devotional from Navigator author Cynthia Heald, women of all ages will be encouraged to draw closer to God by embracing His relentless, passionate pursuit of those He loves. Strong Bible teaching, compelling insights and personal ...

Experience the Life Series: Live as Jesus Lived

BILL HULL & PAUL MASCARELLA Transformed Character Book 2 of Experience the Life Series How do we put on the character of Christ? By living as Jesus lived, daily putting on the character of God and being filled with His presence. This second book in the Experience the Life Bible study series ...

Experience the Life Series: Love as Jesus Loved

BILL HULL & PAUL MASCARELLA Transformed Relationships Book 3 of Experience the Life Series The love that flows from your life is a reflection of your Christlike character. But what does that look like? By cultivating trust in your relationships, practicing the character of humility, and ...

What or who is a Disciple?

By Robin Dennis Discipleship is nothing new. We find the concept of a disciple – that is, a person following a master – among Plato, Socrates and Herodotus; in ancient Hebrew culture, Elisha (2 Kings 4:38), Isaiah (8:16), Samuel (1 Sam 10:5), then we know that John the Baptist had ...

Jordan got baptised!

By Andrew Oldfield, Canberra Labouring Community. One of the highlights of this year's ministry at ADFA was seeing one of the cadets, Jordan, get baptised. I’d met Jordan for the first time at the start of the year as I started with Navigators at ADFA. Before this he had met with Thomas, ...

Topical Memory System

If you want to memorise Scripture, but aren't sure what to memorise or how, this system is exactly what you need to begin hiding God's word in your heart. The Topical Memory System is the clear, simple, proven way to meditate on key Bible verses. As a result, you can: Experience freedom ...

Topical Memory System

The Navigators’ Scripture Memory Course HIDE GOD’S WORD IN YOUR HEART — WHERE IT WILL SHAPE YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT. Wherever life takes you, the Topical Memory System (TMS) provides a portable, effective way to memorize Scripture. Developed by The Navigators, the Topical Memory System ...

The Source of All Joy

From Scott To You Dear Friend, French mathematician and follower of Christ, Blaise Pascal, wrote: “All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end … The will never takes the least step but to this object.” Deep within all ...

LifeChange Series: Ezra & Nehemiah

Rediscover God’s Presence When life is a shambles, we wonder what went wrong and long to see things put right. And often we long for the sense of God’s presence to return to our lives. The city of Jerusalem was a shambles—both its walls and its worship were crumbling. Ezra and Nehemiah ...

Would You Win an Arm Wrestle?

By Philip McMaster, from their ministry newsletter, McMaster News, October 2018 Did you arm wrestle when you were growing up? I used to love arm wrestling with my brother and my dad when I was younger (and stronger!) It was great fun trying to win and you never quite knew what would happen ...

The Foundation of Many Generations

By Doug Utley, Melbourne Labouring Community We escaped to Hamilton Island in August for a week. Glorious sun and warm water, beaches and coral reef. One night, I got up for a drink and was stopped in my tracks by the night sky entering through the balcony doors. It was a moonless night and with ...

Your Questions Answered - Navigator Discipleship

Fran Johnson from our Melbourne Labouring Community answers some of your questions about Navigator discipleship. Why have you enjoyed Navigator discipleship, in group and individual settings? Navigator one-to-one discipleship began my spiritual transformation. I was quite broken spiritually ...

Experience the Life Series: Lead As Jesus Led

BILL HULL & PAUL MASCARELLA Transformed Influence Book 5 of Experience the Life Series To lead as Jesus led, we must live in obedience to God. By becoming transformed leaders, we can be used by the Holy Spirit as instruments for influencing others for the kingdom. In this last book of the ...

An Alien View of God: Western Culture 1

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now ...

Theresa Leads a New Generation Closer to Jesus

Theresa works full time as a nurse for Red Cross and is also leading groups of disciples in the Navigators’ International Student Ministry. This is her story. I grew up as a Buddhist. My family worshipped many gods, each god representing a different aspect of life. To me, religion was just a ...

God's Word Impacting Young Hearts

By Rob Allen (with Angie Allen), Queensland Labouring Community, first published in Compass Winter 2024 issue. Angie and I thank God for having the opportunity to share God’s message of love and hope through His Word with young people over the decades. Many are under enormous social, ...

John Ridgway - The Influence of One Man

A Tribute by Robin Dennis “The least one shall become a thousand and the smallest one a mighty nation” ~ Isaiah 60:22 I was working in Canberra at Parliament House and living in one of the many public servant hostels, Lawley House, which had two sections – the old and the new. Newcomers ...

A Glimpse of the Gospel Through Abraham

By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community.  Two recent themes we have explored as Australian Navigators are: sharing the gospel through story and understanding the grand story of history as outlined in Scripture.  Let’s bring these two themes together and incorporate our national ...

Christlikeness, Day by Day

By Mike Johnson, Melbourne Labouring Community, first published in Compass Winter issue 2023 If the Spirit of God lives in a person, change is inevitable. How could it not be so? He is the Spirit of truth,1 God’s agent of transformation.2 God loves and wants the best for His children, so He ...

Life You Crave, The

JERUSHA CLARK Finding the Answers in a Multiple-Choice Life It’s possible to have the life you’ve always wanted―limitless energy, boundless strength, confident hope and assurance. In fact, it’s not just possible, it’s promised! To grab hold of a God-honoring, soul-satisfying life, we ...

Viewing Human Achievement: Western Culture 4

   “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” Isaiah 6:3 Each day we are surrounded by people’s incredible achievements. We can purchase almost any food at any time of the year, we have social welfare systems that assist in times of need, ...

Satisfy My Thirsty Soul

LINDA DILLOW Be drawn into God's presence, where He can satisfy your thirsty soul. Women have an innate thirst for true, genuine intimacy. Author Linda Dillow believes that this desire is created―and can only be satisfied―by a relationship with God. This 12-week devotional Bible study ...

My Worship Journey

LINDA DILLOW A Companion Guide to Satisfy My Thirsty Soul This personal companion journal to Linda Dillow’s devotional Bible study Satisfy My Thirsty Soul can help women record their thoughts, prayers, and insights. See how far God has brought you in your Christian walk, write down what ...

Sharing Hope in Community

By Julie McIntosh, first printed in Compass, Summer 2021 Cancelled. Postponed. Online. In contrast to the event-oriented lifestyle many of us were previously accustomed to, these words seem to characterise our current schedules. Today, perhaps more than ever, we are faced with the truth that we ...

God or Genie?

By Lindsey Swatzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community  How do you respond to unanswered prayer? What do you do with disappointment, waiting, uncertainty, the inability to control a situation, with seeing the grief that it causes those you love? How do you respond after asking God daily, ...

Spiritual Decline: Western Culture 3

As the deer pants for streams of water,     so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.     When can I go and meet with God? Ps 42:1,2 The prophet Isaiah had a vision of heavenly creatures declaring: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the ...

Vinyl Versecard Holder Wallet

This card holder for verse cards measures approximately 3.25" x 4.75" (8.3 x 12.1 cm) when fully open and has 2 pockets for holding verse cards. Great for the Topical Memory System verse cards.

Jesus

Jesus the Man Jesus is the central figure in Christianity. He was and is the most effective and compelling leader in all of recorded history. He was born into a lower class family to a teenage mum and worked as a carpenter until aged 30. But then He took 12 ordinary blokes – fishermen and tax ...

Workshop Notes 2017

  Forgiveness, Repentence, Reconciliation, Restitution in Disciplemaking This paper by Grant Dibden explores what the Scriptures say on the issues of forgiveness, seeking justice, loving your enemy, dealing with conflict, and more. Workshop with Grant Dibden   Getting Started, ...

A Life Transformed by the Gospel

By Phil McMaster I first met 'Derek', a trainee Army cadet, in January at a voluntary church service during Year One Familiarisation Training (YOFT) at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). He came from a small regional town in Victoria. It wasn't clear whether he had any sort of faith ...

How do we care for international student graduates?

Caring for our co-labourers is a vital ingredient in keeping our communities strong. Kanini Mapperson and her husband, Tim, are community leaders in our International Student Ministry in Melbourne. June Sparks took the opportunity to sit with Kanini to get some tips on how to continue caring for ...

Your Questions Answered - The Chain Illustration

This year, we look at some “discipling” tools and how we can use them for our own ministries. In the last issue, Robin Dennis discussed how we could apply The Word Hand illustration. In this issue, he looks at The Chain Illustration - How to claim a promise, with an example of how to use ...

Halfway There

By Paul Bailey, Melbourne Labouring Community Here we are, midway through 2025, reflecting on all the good the Lord has done, but also looking ahead in faith for what is to come. It has been a number of months since I was able to give a comprehensive update on all that's been happening! So ...

Foundations for Life

By Levi Swatzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community University students are at a pivotal time of life, they are forming convictions, making life-direction choices and often forming what they believe for the first time. Yet, one opportunity which God has given me has reminded me that there is ...

History

Just an Ordinary Guy The Navigators ministry began in the 1930s, when a young California lumberyard worker caught a vision. After seeing the benefits of basic discipleship principles in his own life, Dawson Trotman wanted to teach them to others, echoing the call of 2 Timothy 2:2: "And the things ...

Into the Nations – Workshops

Saturday Morning The Bible Isn’t Flat: Reading God’s Word with Wisdom (Part 1) – Mike Johnson God is the Great Communicator – He speaks to be understood so His people may know His nature, will, and ways, and respond with faithful obedience. Yet His Word comes through diverse human ...

An Easter Reflection

By Grant Dibden "To me it makes as much sense as bunny rabbits handing out chocolate eggs ..." Easter in Australian society is thought of as a holiday time.  And many – most? – people don’t understand the significance of Easter, and often they don’t want to. A local Eastern Sydney ...

Touching The Clouds

FRAN CAFFEY SANDIN True Stories to Strengthen Your Faith Author Fran Sandin interviewed fifteen women who discovered God's presence during their life-altering situations. She included two chapters of her own. At the close of each true story is a deeper discussion of the situation, related ...

A Guide to Daily Devotions

Daily devotions are uninterrupted, unhurried time in the Word of God (Bible), prayer and scriptural meditation. “In our time alone with God we encounter God’s heart for us through His Word.”  The Bible is penetrating (Hebrews 4:12) and as we read it, reflect on it and meditate on it, ...

Jerry Bridges' Legacy

Jerry Bridges was a great encouragement and challenge to many, in his personal relationships and through his books. He was such a wise, godly, Gospel-centred and Jesus-centred person.  His all-time favourite verse was: “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might ...

Jim Downing

"They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green . . . " - Psalm 92:14 We remember and celebrate the life of one of the pioneers of The Navigators, Jim Downing, who passed away in Colorado Springs this week, aged 104 years old. Here is a classic message from Jim from ...

Reinforcing our Relationship with God

By Ray Ewers, first published in The Compass, Volume 4 No. 5, September, 1981   One of the things that gripped me when I was first exposed to The Navigators was the motto: "To know Christ and to make Him known." I prayed over it. I preached on it and I shared it as the real purpose for ...

Searchers not far from God at all

By Doug Utley, first printed in The Compass, Volume 13 No. 1, January 1990 Are Australians harder to reach now with the gospel than previously? Certainly it is taking longer to see people come to Christ, and the means of outreach effectively used in the past, such as crusades, missions, surveys ...

Community in Focus

By Grant Dibden, first published in Compass, Winter 2019 I used to play a lot of sport before I got injured and old. As a young man I did athletics training five days a week and competed on weekends with three colleagues and our coach. Later, I practiced squash four days a week and played in ...

A Heart for the Nations

By Julie, Short-Term Missions Team, first published in Compass, Spring 2019 My husband and I have always had a deep burden for the nations and a longing to see labourers for the Kingdom next door to everywhere. One thing this burden has prompted us to do is to lead a number of short-term ...

Community Evangelism

By Grant Dibden, first published in Compass, Autumn 2020 In our last Compass we talked about being a sent people (John 17:18; 20:21). And the question is, how do we live out that identity? We need to see that sharing the Gospel is not a task, but an identity. It’s not what Christians do, ...

Another "New" Life in 2020 - Addy

Another Story of New Life in 2020 A Personal Testimony by Adelaide Donohue Most people know me as Addy or Adelaide. Here's a little background: I was born and raised in Canberra. I have been in a Christian environment my whole life. I grew up going to church most Sundays like a lot of other ...

Thankful for God's Work

By Levi Swartzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community Looking back over the past year with thankfulness and looking forward in faith, I want to share a highlight over the year for me: seeing the work God is doing in and through Tim, who bears similarities to Paul’s Timothy in ...

The Lord Establishes

By Leah Brown, Sydney Labouring Community (first published in Compass Autumn 2023) Over the last three years, the Lord has been bringing my attention to the truth of Proverbs 16:9, “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” He’s done this in two ...

Expecting God to Work!

By Levi and Lindsey Swartzentruber, Canberra Labouring Community Our new team members, JT and Laine, have only been in the country with us for two months now but already their contribution to God’s work at the ANU is showing… For years we have struggled to gain interest from the students in ...

The Word of God at Work

By Macquarie University Student Ministry The Bible stands not only as a primary means by which God shares who He is, but as a foundational means for strengthening and building our relationship with Him. Students involved in Macquarie University Navigators spent a semester studying the book ...

Life's Unpredictability

By Luke Midena, Canberra Labouring Community There have been many ups and downs to start the year, but God is clearly working in the midst of it all. Let me share about two events impacting the student ministry at the ANU. In February, Levi, who runs the ANU ministry, was involved in a ...

Sharing the Joy and Hope of the Gospel Together

Thank you! Living in Australia today, many of us have observed what was once a positive presence of Christianity in schools, workplaces and public life move to the sidelines. Conversations about faith can feel risky, and censorship is becoming a reality that makes sharing or expressing one’s ...

Get To Know Jordie McMahon

Jordie Watson (nee McMahon) is our National Office Associate and one of our Ministry Apprentices at Macquarie University in Sydney. We interviewed her for Compass, our newsletter, where an abridged version of her interview was first published in the Autumn 2025 issue. How did you come into ...

New Child of God

By June Sparks, Sydney Labouring Community “In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” Luke 15:10 There is rejoicing in heaven and in our house! We have spent time over the past several weeks meeting with K and N to read ...

LifeChange Series: Isaiah

Fiery Holiness, Burning Hope With word pictures to spark your imagination, the preeminent prophet Isaiah paints pictures of the holy and composes symphonies of hope. Witness the double-edged dynamic of God’s holiness, both burning away sin in the furnaces of His judgment and refining the ...

Get To Know Sarah Vernon

Sarah has been part of our Australian Navigators family for several years and recently joined one of our Short-Term Mission Trips. We interviewed her for the Winter 2025 Issue of Compass, our newsletter, where an abridged version of her interview was first published. How did you come into ...

Come - Be an Overcomer

A reflection on the 2025 Monash International Student Ministry Conference by Arnetta Wijaya, Melbourne Labouring Community Over the mid-semester break, the Monash Navigators International Student Ministry (ISM) held our annual conference, a time filled with laughter, reflection, growth and, ...

Topical Memory System: Life Issues

By The Navigators No matter what questions you’re facing today, memorising Scripture will help you find your way. Developed by The Navigators, Topical Memory System (TMS) is a clear, simple and proven way to bring God’s Word into your mind and heart—so it’s always with you. As a result, ...

Death as a Means to Our Joy – An Easter Reflection

By Scott Brown, National Director Death is painful and it spares no one. Young, old, weak, powerful, rich, poor, moral, immoral’– there are no exceptions. While some evade its grasp longer than others, global mortality rates remain 100%. Even among the living, the harsh reality of death is ...

The Road to Freedom: Western Culture 9

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery… You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire ...