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BRUCE DEMAREST Identity. Purpose. Hearing God. Direction. Relationships. Life is a journey and the path is rarely straight and smooth. On the way, we must make a myriad of decisions on career, marriage, ministry, lifestyle and more. How do we know which path to take? We need a wise guide with a ...

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 ...

Cries of the Soul

By Bruce Clarke, first printed in Compass, Spring 2015 All of us will experience suffering or adversity at some point in our lives. Some fall away when God does not deal with them in a way that they desire. But it is also true that many come to faith when adversity strikes. Adversity can ...

Restore My Soul

LORRAINE PETERSON A GRIEF COMPANION A daily devotional to guide the reader through the difficult experiences and feelings after losing a loved one. To be alone in sorrow is not all bad. We need time alone for life to re-sort itself. But a companion in grief is helpful, especially when speaking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meditation: Western Culture 10

Some of my strongest childhood memories come from the times I spent on my uncle’s dairy farm. The heat of summer, the cooling of the milk refrigeration room, the sound and smell of the cows. I would seeing them constantly chewing and later learnt they had 4 stomachs and were often “chewing ...

How Can God Love Me So?

By Lindsey Swartzentruber I want to try to tell you some of who God has revealed Himself to be this year. There have been three significant stressors in my life this year which have all led me to various ends of my strength. I have been mentally exhausted with no other ideas, no backup plans and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Revolution of Character

DALLAS WILLARD & DON SIMPSON Dallas Willard's Renovation of the Heart has become established as a classic guide to the spiritual life. In this abridged version, Don Simpson makes its riches more easily available for devotional use. The authors believe that we fail in the spiritual life ...

River Within, The

JEFF IMBACH Loving God, Living Passionately IS THIS ALL THERE IS? Have you ever wondered why your experience doesn't measure up to the radical life of joy and adventure described time and again in the Bible? Are you so busy "doing" that life has become a soul-wearying blur of activity? Do you ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Viewing Human Achievement: Western Culture 4

   “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;     the whole earth is full of his glory.” Is 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 ...

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, ...

Prayer

Prayer Hand Many believers find that prayer, especially spending long amounts of time in prayer, can be one of the hardest parts of spiritual discipline. The Prayer Hand is an easy way to remember five essential aspects of prayer: confession, petition, intercession, thanksgiving and praise. Pray ...

They Gave Their Lives

By Scott Brown “They gave their lives”... That simple inscription sits above the door to the Australian War Memorial. These four words etched in stone reflect the legacy of countless soldiers whose names line the poppy-covered walls leading toward the entrance. Their sacrifices are ...

Small Initiatives

By June Sparks, first published in Compass Winter edition 2020 At the Neighbours to Nations Conference, I was reminded once again and encouraged to continue taking small step-by-step initiatives in the lives of those around me in the process of pointing them to Jesus. Jesus said the greatest ...

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 ...

Identifying as a Labourer

By Robin Dennis, from Compass, Spring 2018 The Navigators define a labourer as: “Ordinary people who are growing in their intimacy with Jesus and who are working in the harvest (living and discipling among the lost) with a generational mindset.” To work in the harvest (living and ...

Christmas in the MER

A Christmas message from our National Director, Grant Dibden, from the Middle East Region (MER).   10 000 Afghanistan Army soldiers are killed each year that we know of. There’s probably more, and about half that number of civilians. And this doesn’t include the enemy. That was what ...

Learning Godliness

By Sergio Echegoyen, Southeast Queensland Labouring Community, first published in Compass Summer 2023 issue My name is Sergio. I’m originally from Mexico and it is a privilege to have been in this beautiful country for the last few years. I was raised in a Christian family as my parents are ...

Our Staff Job Studies

From Grant Dibden We had a wonderful time considering several of our staff Job studies during the year. It is such a packed book and we were challenged as we reflected back over the whole book, its themes and big lessons as part of our final study time. The book of Job explores why God ...

From Grant to You - God's Word is Flawless

Dear Friend, Ps 12:6,7 says “The words of the Lord are words that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.” Psalm 19:7 says, “The law of the Lord is perfect”. Proverbs 30:5 tell us, “Every word of God is flawless.” Psalm 119:160 says, “All your ...

Living with Christ as Lord

By Scott Brown, Sydney City Leader (first published in Compass Autumn 2023) From the earliest days of the Navigators, Dawson Trotman’s Wheel Illustration highlighted the importance of living with Christ as Lord, or as he termed it, with Christ the Centre. Galatians 2:20 and 2 Corinthians 5:17 ...

Knowing God

By Scott Brown In the Autumn issue of the Compass, Mike Johnson clearly laid out a few simple and crucial rules to follow when reading and studying the Bible in order to interpret it accurately. If you haven’t read that article on How to Read the Bible Better, I recommend you give it a read ...

Born to Reproduce (Booklet)

Currently out of stock. Please check with the office for re-orders. Born to Reproduce was originally a 47-minute message given to the staff of Back to the Bible in 1955. A message that burned deeply in Dawson Trotman’s soul, it was later transcribed and published as a booklet that has been ...

One True Thing, The

By Howard Baker Howard Baker says we all long for a single devotion. Yet most often, our lives are fragmented, torn between competing desires, demands, and responsibilities. As a way to answer our deep need, we throw ourselves into work or activities or addictions. But devotion to a job, to a ...

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 ...

Living the Resurrection

EUGENE H PETERSON The Risen Christ in Everyday Life Christ's friends were utterly transformed by His resurrection. Their friendship, their work, and even their meals together took on a new meaning and purpose. The same can happen to us today. Eugene Peterson, beloved pastor, scholar, and ...

Starting Over

THOMAS WHITEMAN & RANDY PETERSEN A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You rebuild Your Life After a Break-up You are not over when your relationship ends. If you've recently gone through a divorce or relational breakup, you know how difficult it is to recover your sense of identity, balance, and ...