MOCLAM: Mission to the world
Posted on December 3, 2025
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For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised. (2 Cor 5:14-15)
“Today, 20 per cent of Latin Americans identify as evangelical, compared to only 3 per cent in the 1960s. Growth has been fast, and leaders have emerged with admirable enthusiasm, a sincere desire to reach the lost and a deep love for God’s people.
However, while this statistic sounds impressive, only a very small percentage of pastors have been given the opportunity to undergo formal theological training. …”
– At the Moore College website, Adrian and Anita Lovell, CMS Missionaries in Bolivia, share something of the impact and potential of MOCLAM.
Ethics with AI and Preaching
Posted on December 3, 2025
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From The Pastor’s Heart:
“What are the dangers when pastors let AI assist… or sometimes author? …
Stephen Driscoll works in Campus Ministry in Canberra. He’s the author of Made in Our Image: God, artificial intelligence and you.
Stephen argues that writing is thinking, and when we automate the writing we risk automating away the deep thinking and wrestling with God’s word that forms the preacher’s heart. …”
– Watch here.
Related:
John Piper asks ChatGPT to write a Prayer.
The Man of Promise — In whom do you trust?
Posted on December 2, 2025
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From Phillip Jensen:
“Dear friends,
We come to the last of our series in the opening chapters of Genesis. We have certainly enjoyed rethinking the great themes that these chapters contain and hope that you have similarly enjoyed our discussions.
As we’re coming towards the end of the year, we are thinking about next year’s programmes. We would love to hear of any part of the Bible you would want us to work through, or any particular issues you would like us to address. …”
– Hear Philip Jensen and Peter Jensen at Two Ways News.
Expository Preaching Trust Calendar 2026
Posted on December 2, 2025
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The Expository Preaching Trust has published their Calendar for 2026.
There are many opportunities for preachers to find help and encouragement,
Speakers include Simon Manchester and David Cook.
‘I will be a witness to the resurrection’: Archbishop Thorpe
Posted on December 1, 2025
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From The Melbourne Anglican:
“Let me state it plainly. I will proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, as long as God gives me breath…”
“Melbourne’s new Anglican archbishop has been installed, beginning a new season for the church and diocese.
Archbishop Ric Thorpe became Melbourne’s 14th leader on Advent Sunday, succeeding Philip Freier who retired in February after 18 years of service. …”
– See the full report by Jenan Taylor.
Photo of Archbishop Ric Thorpe greeting Archbishop Kanishka Raffel by Janine Eastgate, The Melbourne Anglican.
How new laws could impact believers
Posted on November 30, 2025
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“A new podcast from the Freedom for Faith group aims to keep believers informed of looming threats to religious freedom in Australia.
Freedom Matters features Bishop Michael Stead, the chairman of Freedom for Faith and diocesan spokesman on religious freedom in conversation with Monica Doumit, the director of public affairs and engagement for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and a fellow board member of Freedom for Faith. …”
– At SydneyAnglicans.net, Russell Powell highlights an important new podcast.
Watch the podcast at Freedom for Faith.
Repeat the Sounding Joy: Advent devotionals with Christopher Ash — Part 1
Posted on November 30, 2025
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From Tyndale House, Cambridge:
“In this four-part series for Advent, Tony Watkins talks to Christopher Ash, Writer in Residence at Tyndale House, Cambridge, about Luke chapters 1 and 2. These chapters are the focus of Christopher’s book of Advent devotions, Repeat the Sounding Joy (pub. Good Book Company).
In this first episode, Christopher and Tony discuss the birth of John the Baptist.…”
– Watch here.
Advent account a salutary reminder in self-centred times
Posted on November 30, 2025
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“The Prayer Book Bible readings and Collect for Advent Sunday are a powerful reminder that the Jewish Messiah who was crucified in Roman Judea will one day return to the judge the world.
The reading from Matthew’s Gospel stresses the humility of Jesus when he entered Jerusalem on a donkey in fulfilment of the Old Testament prophecy in Zechariah 9:9…”
– Julian Mann writes at The Conservative Woman. (Published in 2024.)
500 Years of Books — at Moore College
Posted on November 28, 2025
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“During Sydney Rare Book Week, the Donald Robinson Library hosted ‘500 Years of Books,’ an evening that allowed attendees to handle and closely examine significant works from the library’s rare books collection.
The response in the room was remarkable. As each volume was introduced, guests leaned forward, eager to see the fine details, bindings, illustrations, marginal notes, early type, and the physical evidence of centuries of use. Many found themselves leaving their seats repeatedly, drawn toward the tables to observe the craftsmanship up close. …”
– Erin Mollenhauer Senior Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Moore Theological College shares highlights of the event.
Bathurst Diocese Newsletter for Advent 2025
Posted on November 27, 2025
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Bishop of Bathurst Mark Calder has published the Bathurst Newsletter for Advent.
Please be encouraged to use it to inform your prayers: for the churches of the diocese, that they may be strengthened and encouraged – and also for the people of this large region of NSW, that many may hear the words of eternal life this Christmas, and find salvation in Christ.
Bishop Calder writes with much encouragement in the newsletter:
“Dear friends,
As we prepare to observe Advent again, I wanted to share a few thoughts. It is a time in our church calendar which has been misunderstood AND come under increasing secular influence. Advent reminds us that Christians are people who wait. We live with the reality that the world is not as it should be BUT we cling to the promise of Jesus’ return when everything will be put right. Advent doesn’t ask us to be cheerful or sentimental. It asks us to watch, to pray, and to recognise our deep need for the One who will come again.
We look around and see conflict, sorrow, failures, and tragedies. Advent puts to us that we can face these things without despair. It invites us to hold them before God, trusting that he has not forgotten his promises. Jesus will come with justice and mercy. He will heal, restore, judge and renew. That is our hope — not a vague wish, but a sure and certain expectation.
And so, Advent urges us not to be anxious or frantic. But steady. Prayerful. Grateful for every anticipation of all that Jesus’ return will mean.
Only at the end of Advent do we turn to Christmas. And when we do, we are reminded that our Advent hope is not hope against hope but is gloriously grounded in the historical reality that Jesus has already come among us as a real human being. The child of Bethlehem is the Lord of glory who will return. His first coming assures us of his second.
May this Advent renew your hope and steady your heart as you wait for him.
Mark.”
– Read it all here. (Looking for a pre-loved car? The newsletter might contain the answer.)
A Fresh Look at Romans
Posted on November 27, 2025
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“Commentaries on Romans often begin with a short justification as to why the author thinks we need yet another commentary on Romans. Rosner does not need to justify his contribution, as his volume is a genuinely fresh approach to the letter. His book is not a commentary, and it does not cover every detail, but it gives readers a comprehensive overview of the letter.
For preachers and bible study leaders, this kind of theological overview can often be as helpful as a commentary which is stronger at the detailed, exegetical level. This volume will be helpful for any reader who wants to grow in their knowledge of Romans.…”
– At The Gospel Coalition Australia, Peter Orr reviews Brian Rosner’s Strengthened by the Gospel.
MOCLAM in Mexico
Posted on November 26, 2025
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“When Sarah and I arrived as CMS missionaries in Mexico in 2009, my long-term task was clear: learn Spanish, get to know Latin American culture, and see what I could do to grow the ministry of MOCLAM beyond the solid base that had been established in Chile. …
I was continually reminded that reading the Bible as a whole book with Jesus as the focus was a new concept for many of my students …”
– At Moore College, Peter Sholl, currently International Director of CMS, reminds us of the blessings of MOCLAM and the PTC.
Image: CMS Australia.
The Birth of Multiculturalism
Posted on November 25, 2025
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From Phillip Jensen:
“The Australian government glories in the development of multiculturalism. However, Australian society is now straining to maintain social harmony. Consequently, the government is trying to regulate freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religion. For while migration can enrich a country, the concept of a nation celebrating and encouraging many cultures is a recipe for failure.
In the Bible, the creation of multiculturalism was God’s judgement at the Tower of Babel. In this episode of Two Ways News, we turn back to that great event recorded in Genesis 11.”
– Hear Phillip and Peter Jensen at Two Ways News.
Centre of gravity shifts from Canterbury to Abuja – with Paul Donison
Posted on November 24, 2025
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From The Pastor’s Heart, a special edition featuring an interview with Gafcon General Secretary Bishop Paul Donison –
“Paul Donison responds to global reaction to Gafcon’s reset of the Anglican Communion and its declaration that Canterbury’s time is over.
The Lord is removing his Spirit from the Canterbury–Lambeth lampstand, and the centre of global Anglicanism is shifting from London to Africa.
The average Anglican today is not English, not Western, not male — she’s a young African woman in her twenties, probably Nigerian. The Anglican Communion is now catching up with that reality.
Since the Gafcon Primates’ announcement on 16 October 2025 — declaring that Canterbury is out and that the Bible will be the foundation document for a reordered Global Anglican Communion — reaction has been electric: claims of schism, conflict in Ireland, tensions in ACNA, questions about women’s orders, realignments in England, silence from some primates, and fresh courage from others.
And what does this mean for a blended province like Australia?
Gafcon General Secretary Paul Donison joins us with an update on plans for the Global Bishops Gathering in Abuja, Nigeria, 3–6 March 2026.”
Bishop Donison is speaking at Moore College on Wednesday night at 7:30pm:
Fifty children escape after mass school abduction in Nigeria
Posted on November 24, 2025
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“Fifty of the 315 children kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s Niger State on Friday have escaped.
The Christian Association of Nigeria says they have been reunited with their families. A major military-led search and rescue operation is under way for the remaining 265 children and 12 teachers who were taken with them. …”
– Report from BBC News.
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