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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Feb
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Jan
23
The Next Generation and Systematic Theology
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 …
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 …
Jan
03
A New Beginning
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 …
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) …
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 …
Sep
27
Christian homes as a school of Christ.
Interesting thoughts from Broughton Knox on helping families grow in Christ together: “The congregation should nourish the spiritual life and fellowship of the family. For example, up to half-a-dozen leaders should be chosen in each congregation whose first ministry should be to minister to families, i.e. to fathers and mothers, to encourage them to ensure …
May
13
Broghton Knox and the Signing of the Cross
Here’s an interesting little fact from Marcia Cameron’s biography of Broughton Knox (p.310): When Broughton Knox was involved with the writing of the 1992 Prayer Book for the Church of England in South Africa, he insisted that ‘signing with the sign of the cross’ should be included in the baptism service. Now, that’s pretty stock-standard, …
May
05
Interesting article from the latest Themelios on ecclesiology
In this article, which analyses Colin Gunton’s ecclesiology, there are some good thoughts on the doctrine of church. What’s interesting for my 4th year project, is that it confirms the sort of direction I want to take to resolve the problem of the ‘pneumatological location’ of the nexus between the Opus Dei and Opus Hominum. …
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