Mark

Author's details

Name: Mark Earngey
Date registered: April 23, 2009
URL: http://www.earngey.info

Biography

well in case you didn't realise, i'm a christian. i love Jesus because he's opened my eyes. i love sports. i love people. i love my mates. i love life. i love thinking through things and making decisions slowly. i love sharing with people what i think about things. i love the fact that even though life can seem confusing and lonely and uncertain, God holds me in his good hand and brings the right things into my life and i (really) need them.

Latest posts

  1. Thinking aloud about the Lord’s Supper — February 21, 2012
  2. Papal Infallibility — February 14, 2012
  3. Assured by Grace — February 6, 2012
  4. Not little or big people — February 3, 2012
  5. The Next Generation and Systematic Theology — January 23, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. CBE International :: 13th June 2010 :: Tim Foster – 1 Timothy 2:8-15 & Gender Wars at Ephesus — 28 comments
  2. Dinner with Kevin Rudd! — 15 comments
  3. Can Moore College Get in Touch with the Next Generation? — 15 comments
  4. CBE Reflections :: Why I’m still a Complementarian (with hierarchy!) — 15 comments
  5. CBE International Conference :: 12th June 2010 :: Graham Cole – The Trinity without Tiers — 14 comments

Author's posts listings

Feb
21

Thinking aloud about the Lord’s Supper

thinking

I had a recent discussion with a friend about the nature of the Lord’s Supper.  My brother’s opinion was that the Reformation formulation of the theology of the Lord’s Supper was driven by political polemics against the Roman Catholic church, and thus needed to be revised.  Implication 1: the Reformed eucharistic theology is not an …

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Feb
14

Papal Infallibility

One of the most interesting essays I wrote whilst at college was on the theology of John Henry Newman, and Anglican priest who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Cardinal.  His basic conviction was that infallibility had to lie somewhere, it wasn’t Scripture, so it must have been lodged in the office of the …

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Feb
06

Assured by Grace

One of the things I’ve been reminded of during my first few weeks at Toongabbie Anglican Church is that many of us struggle with assurance.  Will I make it to the end? Will I remain a believing Christian? Will God look after me? One of the little gems in 1 Corinthians 1:4-9, is that the …

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Feb
03

Not little or big people

This week I’m preaching through my first ever sermon series – it’s on 1 Corinthians, a great book to begin my ministry with! What I’ve been struck by is the fact that in God’s Church there are no little people, and no big people.  That is, there are no little people who lack any spiritual …

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Jan
23

The Next Generation and Systematic Theology

nextgen

Last week Tanya and I had the privilege of heading up to Katoomba for a conference entitled NextGen 2012.  Basically, imagine 400-500 young Christian men and women who lead youth groups or children’s ministries getting together to think hard about how to read and teach from Scripture.  It’s great. In God’s grace over the last …

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Jan
10

Bending our wills

One of the major things which I learnt last year at college was the importance of the fact that Christ has not one will (monothelitism), but two (dyothelitism).  When Christ cried out in Gethsemene, ‘not my will, but your will be done’ I’m reminded that Christ was very human as indeed I am; that his …

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Jan
03

A New Beginning

tacweb

Well, with great joy Tanya and joined Toongabbie Anglican Church last Sunday!  A few quick highlights: Meeting lots of new people (and trying hard to remember names!) Campbell Mackay preaching and reminding us of the new beginnings that can be found in Christ Lots of people knowing about us, or knowing friends of ours, or …

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Dec
24

The Word became Flesh

Christmas: God and Man. Inconfusedly, Unchangeably, Indivisibly, Inseperably.

Dec
23

True Christmas Worship

This Christmas, it’s worth asking ourselves who are we worshiping?  Jesus, yes.  But the divinity of Christ, or the humanity of Christ, or both? Reading through some church history lately has reminded me that it’s important to focus our worship correctly. The Arians of the 4th century only worshiped Christ as man because they (wrongly) …

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Oct
13

Project Introduction: Comments, Suggestions?

Extremely Rough Draft Written Quickly Tonight.  I just want to know – does it makes sense? Chapter 1: The Turn to the Visible “Consensus of much recent ecclesiology has been to confirm the correctness of Bonhoeffer’s judgment: no ecclesiology can be adequate which does not give primacy to the church’s visibility.” John Webster.[1] In recent …

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