A rant on applying 1 Corinthians 1
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »Over the next few weeks I am preaching through 1 Corinthians 1-4 at Unichurch. In preparation I have listened to about 5 or 6 sermons on 1 Corinthians 1. These have been from leading evangelical preachers in leading churches from across ...
Unichurch Partnership
Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As semester 2 gets underway, we're launching a new course: the Unichurch Partnership course. Over 3 weeks we will be looking at God's word and hearing from Rory, thinking through what we believe as a church, what our mission is ...
Get off the couch!
Friday, June 11th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Have you ever wondered what inspires those crazy people who decide to leave everything and go be a missionary in another culture? Is the idea of doing missions in a foreign country scary to you? Or ludicrous? Or perhaps you've ...
Skip about!
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall." :: Malachi 4.2 Imagine you’re a Jew living 400 years BC when ...
My mum is my evangelistic hero
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »My mum, Jean, is my evangelistic hero. She never learnt the lessons we normally learn about inviting people to stuff. It's not that she finds it easy, or loves doing it for some buzz - but she hasn't learnt the ...
Understatement
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We are kings and queens of overstatement. That was the funniest joke in the world. It was the greatest game ever. I've told you a thousand times. I asked Jon Rumble for an example of an overstatement he said "Ed ...
Atheist Delusions: Part 1, Introduction
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »In the introduction, Hart sets up what he is trying to do. It's not to offer a point-by-point refutation of atheist arguments, nor to 'convert' anybody to Christianity as such, nor is it to defend institutional Christianity. On the ...
The Prodigal God
Monday, April 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Did you know that there’s a parable about a wayward son returning to his father in Mahayana Buddhism? It comes from the Lotus Sutra composed at the end of the 2nd century AD. The setting is similar to Jesus' parable of ...
Five reasons why you don’t need to get freaked out by the Bible
Friday, April 23rd, 2010 Posted in Books, Theology, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »I always get freaked out by the Bible. It's so much easier to pick up a novel or a magazine. But whenever I do, the Bible sits there on my shelf, shouting, "Hey! You should be reading ME! What kind ...
in the lead up to Mr Right…
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