One2One Bible reading promo

This video from St. Helen’s Bishopsgate is a simple encouragement to reading the Bible with someone else.

See One2One – part 1 – on Vimeo.

Proc Trust Spring Wives Conference 2014

The Proclamation Trust has been posting videos from their just-concluded Spring Wives Conference:

Lindsay & Wallace Benn – Ministry marriage.

John Samuel – Wisdom and its beginning, Wisdom and guidance, Wisdom and family.

Clare Heath-Whyte – What keeps us awake at night, What gets us up in the morning.

And the Proc Trust’s Adrian Reynolds reflects on the importance of the Conference.

Piper on Calvinism: Deeply Experiencing God’s Grace

Andy Naselli writes: “In some circles Calvinism unfortunately has a reputation for being sinfully contentious, especially when self-labeled Calvinists are arrogant and when non-Calvinists misunderstand what Calvinism really is. This 94-page book should help.”

John Piper speaks about his book “Five Points – Towards a Deeper Experience of God’s Grace”, here, where it’s also available as a free PDF download.

U. S. Supreme Court Denies Falls Church Petition

“The order list published this morning by the United States Supreme Court shows that, after relisting the case for its conferences four times, it has denied certiorari (review) in No. 13-449, The Falls Church v. Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, et al.”

– A S Haley, The Anglican Curmudgeon, with bad news for The Falls Church in Virginia.

Church of Pakistan college Principal says he was beaten, told to leave

“The Principal of Edwardes College in Peshawar, Pakistan, has revealed he was beaten by ‘intelligence agents’ who destroyed his visa and warned him to leave the country…”

– Story from the Anglican Communion News Service.

Free eBook — How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

During March 2014, Ligonier Ministries’ Reformation Trust is giving away the eBook of Derek Thomas’ How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home. It’s an exploration of the wonderful Romans chapter 8.

First Cross-cultural Chaplains at Moore

The Rev Joseph Fung and Dr Nancy Fung have been appointed as Moore College’s first cross-cultural chaplains.

You might have missed — 8th March 2014

Film festival Here are a few items from the last week you might have missed –

A slippery Bible?

Adrian Reynolds (Proc Trust) on the discussion between Steve Chalke and Andrew Wilson, shown on Premier TV in the UK –

“This is actually a helpful episode, because Andrew draws out from Steve what he really thinks… This is liberalism and nothing more.”

See if you agree.

Steve Chalke or the repentant Rosaria? Whose religious experience? – Mike Ovey.
Confidence in God and the word he has given us – Mark Thompson.
Restoring Confidence In The Bible? Let’s Start With Confident Pastors, Seminary Professors and Church Leaders – Colin Adams.

Frozen my way

“In 1624 a cathedral Dean wrote: ‘No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.’ which ends with the famous lines ‘And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.’

The relationship of the individual with the community is one of the ongoing tensions of life. To what extent is the individual sovereign and how much is the community sovereign?…”

– Phillip Jensen writes in his weekly column for the Cathedral.

Pilgrimage to mark Marsden Bicentenary

“Anglican bishop Kelvin Wright will not be just walking when he makes a 27-day pilgrimage around his huge Dunedin diocese this month to commemorate the bicentenary of the first Christian sermon preached in New Zealand…”

– Story from The Otago Daily Times. Photo: Anglican Taonga.

An appreciation of Gerald Bray

“Three decades ago, in January 1984, the Church Society’s theological journal, Churchman, was relaunched under new leadership. At a moment of crisis within the Anglican movement, when confusion reigned about the authority and interpretation of Scripture, some were beginning to ask: ‘When does neo-evangelicalism become simply a new form of the old liberalism?’ (CEN, 6 May 1983). The Church Society council turned to a young tutor at Oak Hill College, Gerald Lewis Bray, to take a lead as Churchman’s new editor…”

– Andrew Atherstone commemorates 30 years of editorial oversight of Churchman by Gerald Bray in this appreciation. (PDF file.)

Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

Of Tim Keller’s book “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, Andy Naselli writes,

“It’s probably the best overall book on suffering because it shrewdly addresses the issue from three angles: cultural, biblical-theological, practical.

As with Keller’s other books, this brims with wisdom from decades of fruitful pastoral ministry.”

– Read more here. (Tim Keller is coming to Sydney later this month.)

Steve Chalke or the repentant Rosaria? Whose religious experience?

“Who’s the most unlikely convert you have ever met? Of course, given the ravages of sin in our hearts and minds any convert is nothing short of a miracle, a new creation that only the original creator can bring about. All the same, there are some whose place in life seems to make it especially hard to hear the gospel, and when someone in that position does become a Christian, one stands amazed at the power of God’s grace in encountering them and bringing them home to himself.”