This is a transcript of my sermon to our campus English-language congregation, 13 July 2014 Today we will hear the story of Noah and the flood What is that story about? Judgement… Creation care… Many things undoubtedly… As we hear this story we will see that it is about Jesus… […]
So, there’s been this uproar in Sydney Anglicanism because John Dickson wrote a book suggesting that women could sometimes give some sermons in some circumstances. (I reviewed it here.) So then the more conservative end of Sydney Anglicanism had to write a response book. What’s striking about this debate is […]
Rain for Roots, the people who made the kids’ music that didn’t make us want to claw our eyes out, have released a second album. While the last one did big picture of the Bible kind of stuff, The Kingdom of Heaven is like this zooms in on Jesus’ sayings […]
Over Easter I gave a Bible Overview seminar at a TAFES camp. The plan was to tell the story of the Bible from beginning to end in a way that could be remembered. I used 6 pictures for 6 stages of the story, telling it first in English, then in […]
There’s a discussion going on among western theologians at the moment about what the gospel is. We’ve written bits and pieces on a few of the players here, here and here. It’s all about trying to figure out what the essence of the gospel message is: be reconciled to God; […]
One of the highlights of Tim Tennent’s Invitation to World Missions is chapter 5, in which he discusses the Great Commissions — in the plural. In the Four Gospels, each writer records a final post-resurrection saying of Jesus, but each saying is different, and is even attributed to a different […]
There are a stack of different types of music that Tanzanians sing in church. As well as pambios, more traditional denominations use the Tenzi za Rohoni, which are mainly English hymns translated into Swahili. One hymn that everyone seems to know is ‘How Great Thou Art’. Different types of music elicit […]
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