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Pilgrim’s Podcast #4: Ruth Lee, RICE, EQUIP and Shnouncements!

Mark — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:52:01 +0000

Well we’ve hit #4 of the Pilgrim’s Podcast! Very grateful for all your listening, and thoughts and props!

This episode was a world first for Steve and me! We had the first ever woman join the Pilgrim’s Podcast (and many more to come!). Ruth Lee came and shared all about the RICE movement: Revolution, Events, Regenerate, and upcoming conferences! She’s awesome – and a great pilgrim who loves Jesus! We also heard all about the great work with the EQUIP women’s conferences – in fact, we signed up to get a Pilgrim’s Podcast team down there next year!

We also: had an awesome start to the podcast, launched our SMBC lovespot, gave shnouncements, talked about how to balance our work and play for Jesus, and Ruthy identified with an amazing movie! Get into it!

RICE: www.riceevent.org.au
RICE REGENERATE: www.riceregenerate.org
EQUIP: www.equip.org.au (next event: Saturday 8th May, 2010)

Can I put a serious plug in here for the RICE movement. Sam Mak, Steve Chong, Ruthy and others are wonderful servants of our Lord and He is blessing this ministry in great ways. If you haven’t (or your church hasn’t) yet gotten involved, do it! Hit up the site above and get in touch – great things are happening now, and there are great plans for the future too!

Listen here:

Kairos at Parklea Prison

Mark — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:40:53 +0000

I had the privilege tonight of visiting a Kairos closing ceremony is Parklea Correctional Facility. Karios is a inter-denominational ministry which seeks to share the love of Christ with prison inmates, their families and those who work with them.

“I was in prison but you visited me.” Matthew 25:36

The weekend-long kairos ministry took place in Parklea’s Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre, with 20 men between the ages of 20 and 40. And the work of God amongst them was incredible.

Many shared stories of having no faith, but coming to a newfound love for God. Others shared of how they had seen forgiveness in Christ, and now could forgive others. One fella shared that he couldn’t trust people, but these Christians could be trusted: they were the first people he met who wanted to give, and didn’t want in return. And one fella who was a Christian when he entered the prison shared how this ministry helped him turn his eyes to Christ whilst in prison. He’s now going to start a bible-study with his inmates!

Tonight reminded me of four things mainly:

How all people yearn to be loved and treated with dignity.
How powerful the witness to Christ is.
That here by the grace of God go I.
That I’m so thankful to God in how He’s used my parents in this ministry over many years.

Knowledge and Abandonment of the Son

Mark — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:50:07 +0000

Some food for thought! Seamus, an ex-Moore College student has posted up a few good thoughts on some aspects of Christology. These are a stimulating bunch of short readings, and quite helpful too!

What Does the Incarnate Son Know?

What the Son Knows, part II

Thoughts on Patristic Exegesis and Trinitarian Debates

Did the Father abandon the Son?

Here’s a short excerpt:

“I want to affirm that the punishment Jesus endures involves separation in terms of fellowship and favour of the Father, but not ‘presence’, because God is omnipresent, neither ‘ontological’ separation – the Son cannot be separated from the Father because they are one Substance. Thus, when Jesus dies on the Cross, and dies in his human nature, the Divine Son experiences, mysteriously for the Living God, Death in his Human Nature for sin.”