Rick Lewers consecrated Bishop

On Friday night Rick Lewers was consecrated as Bishop of Armidale. Russell Powell has the story at SydneyAnglicans.net.

Appreciating the ministry of Graeme Goldsworthy

“On Wednesday night Moore College held the Graeme Goldsworthy’s celebration at which the Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jensen launched Graeme’s latest book Christ-centred Biblical Theology…”

— from the Moore College website.
Related: The ‘must read’ Christian book of the year?

Moore Matters — Winter 2012

The latest issue of Moore Matters (Winter 2012) is available from the Moore College website.

It’s a 4MB PDF file. Well worth downloading – and passing on to your friends. Grab your copy here.

Queen’s Birthday Convention 2012

Coming up at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on Monday June 11. Early bird before June 01.

Details here.

John Woodhouse to retire from Moore College in 2013

Diocese of Sydney media release, 16 May 2012:

The Archbishop of Sydney, who is the President of the Moore Theological College Governing Board, has announced that the principal, Dr John Woodhouse, will retire from the position early next year.

Dr Woodhouse would have reached retirement age at the start of 2014, but has told the Board that after careful deliberation, he believed the time had come for him to plan to step aside from the role.   Read more

Greg Goswell to move to PTC Sydney

Moore College graduate Greg Goswell will return to Sydney (from Melbourne) to lecture in Old Testament at the Presbyterian Theological Centre at Burwood in 2013. News here.

Moore College Open Nights and Open Weeks

Moore Theological College in Newtown is holding an Open Week 21-25 May, and an Open Night on Monday 28 May, with others later in the year.

Info here.

Moore Missions 2012 over and out

“Moore College Missions 2012 (held April 29 to May 6) have successfully concluded for another year. It has been a wonderful display of God’s people evangelising…”

– Read it at the Moore College website.

Archbishop Peter Jensen on BBC Radio

Archbishop Peter Jensen was interviewed by Edward Stourton on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme – about the GAFCON / FCA Leadership Conference, which begins tomorrow in London.

Listen via the BBC’s iPlayer. The interview starts 10:10 in.

(h/t Anglican Mainstream. Photo: Joy Gwaltney.)

Together for the Gospel 2012 talks available

The 2012 Together for the Gospel conference has just been held in Louisville, Kentucky. The theme was “The Underestimated Gospel”.

Audio and video files of the main talks have now been posted online for your edification.

Graeme Goldsworthy Book Launch and Celebration

“Moore College invites you to a celebration of the work of Graeme Goldsworthy in the development of biblical theology in Australia and globally. Special guest Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jensen will officially launch Graeme’s new book: Christ-centred Biblical Theology.

The insights of Graeme Goldsworthy and Donald Robinson into how the whole Bible fits together have informed every aspect of Moore College’s curriculum. In his new book Graeme expands his understanding of biblical theology, and defends and refines the rationale for his approach.”

Details of the Wednesday 23 May 2012 event here.
(Bookings are essential – by Wednesday 16 May.)

Related: The ‘must read’ Christian book of the year?

John Mallison

Dr John Mallison, a long-time advocate of Small Group ministry in Australia, died in Sydney on March 29th. While he served in the Methodist, and then Uniting Churches, and had been Moderator of the NSW Synod of the Uniting Church, his ministry had an impact in many Anglican churches too.

A service of Thanksgiving will be held at St. Paul’s Castle Hill on Wednesday April 11 at 11:00am.

Archbishop Peter Jensen’s Easter Message 2012

Archbishop Peter Jensen has released his 2012 Easter message – a message of wonderful news.

Watch it here at SydneyAnglicans.net (1 minute 20 seconds).

And you can download the message here formatted as 2 x A5 handouts.

Or read the text below –

“You can pay people to do a lot of things for you but you can’t pay someone else to do death for you. And there is no one on earth who can really tell you what it’s like.

They are the facts.

If you want to travel to an exotic place, someone has been there before you and can tell you what it is like, with photos. But there are no travellers into the realm of death who come back.

That’s a fact.

Well, no it isn’t a fact.

There is a man who has been there and come back and told us what to expect. That man is Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world.

We Christians love Easter because it is the historical reminder that although Jesus was executed by being crucified and was truly dead, three days later he broke out of his tomb and showed that death is not the last word in life.

And everything is changed. Instead of living in fear and anxiety, it’s as though God has turned the light on and dispelled our fear.

Jesus dies so that we could be forgiven and he lives to give us life beyond the grave.

Now that’s a great fact!

Dr Peter F Jensen,
Archbishop of Sydney,
Easter, 2012 AD.”

A reminder to pray for those in authority

“For our devotions before our meeting this morning we read 1 Timothy 2.

‘First of all then, I urge that supplications, prayers intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and for all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life, godly and dignified in every way.’

Does God answer such prayers?…”

– a report from East Timor at Mission Partners.

New Principal for George Whitfield College

“The directors of George Whitfield College, which trains leaders for ministry across Africa, have unanimously elected Rev Mark Dickson to succeed Dr David Seccombe as principal.

Dr Seccombe has been Principal of the South African theological college since 1993. He is also an Affiliate Professor of New Testament at North-West University at Potchefstroom. He was formerly rector of St Matthew’s Anglican Church, Shenton Park, in Perth.

Mark Dickson (pictured) is currently Vice-Principal of GWC and holds the C.S. Lewis Lectureship in Christian Thought.

He has been engaged in Phd studies and has special expertise in the area of science and Christianity, also holding a Bachelor of Science.

He previously served as the senior minister of St Matthews Church in Table View, (Cape Town) for 17 years. The appointment will take effect from 1 January 2013.”

– Report by Russell Powell at SydneyAnglicans.net. (Dr D B Knox was the founding Principal of George Whitfield College.)

← Previous Page — Next Page →