Great Debates: where to read more
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | No Comments »After our series on Great Debates at Tuesday Hub, a few people have asked me what they could read to find out more. If you're interested in reading some church history, here's two titles I recommend (and yes, camp people, ...
Why these books and not those?
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Books, Church, History | No Comments »Last Tuesday at Hub we explored the way in which the New Testament formed, as churches shared documents, built their libraries, and decided which books they would read in church and trust for teaching. But how did the churches know whether ...
Deep fried heaven at the end of the earth
Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in Fun, Miscellaneous | 5 Comments »One of the curious symptoms of Perth's isolation (3000 km from Sydney, same from Jakarta, pretty much the opposite position on the globe to New York) is that some things take on a significance far greater than their value. Today Ash ...
Jesus, all about life
Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A guest post by Paul Chia. The “Jesus. All about life” campaign, developed by Bible Society NSW, is seeking to bring the message of the gospel to the Australian community using the media - in particular, prime-time television and film - ...
Rights aren’t always right
Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted in Current affairs, News | 4 Comments »What do you have a right to? Free speech? A vote? A fair trial? Well, in Australia, none of these. If you thought you did, you may have been watching a little too much Law and Order. Because, like Britain, ...
Getting stupid to get away from God
Monday, May 11th, 2009 Posted in Books, Theology | No Comments »A couple of weeks ago Ben showed us that hard-heartedness makes you stupid, using a less-than-clever quote from Richard Dawkins. Hard-heartedness is one of the ways the Bible talks about sin, and there are lots of others - idoatory, rebellion, ...
The forgotten day of Easter: Maundy Thursday
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Church, Theology | No Comments »Today is Maundy Thursday. It doesn't often get a guernsey in the Easter celebrations of a lot of our evangelical churches. But we can't properly understand what happened on Good Friday without the events of Maundy Thursday. The day before Jesus ...
Dead guys who dominate: Polycarp
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | No Comments »One of the letters that Ignatius sent on his way to Rome was to Polycarp, the young leader of the church in Smyrna (now Izmir in Turkey). In the letter, Ignatius encouraged Polycarp to take seriously his responsibilities as a ...
Dead guys who dominate: Ignatius
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | 1 Comment »Around AD 107, Ignatius, a church leader in Antioch, was condemned to death by Roman authorities. At that time, it was illegal to be a Christian in the Roman Empire, because Christianity was opposed to the official religion of the ...
Living in Christ
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in Theology | No Comments »An open letter from Adrian Mikula. Hey everyone, I just wanted to encourage you from a great Bible study I had a couple of weeks ago on Ephesians 1:1-14. As God is challenging me, so I would like to challenge you! God has ...
