Interview with Richard Chin

Moore College has published this video interview by Archie Poulos with Richard Chin.

Most encouraging and challenging. Runs for 19 minutes.

Related:

The Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students.

Raising the Next Generation of Leaders

“I was privileged last month to spend an afternoon watching our prayers being answered.

It is a constant prayer point of our Diocese to ask the Lord to raise up workers for the harvest field.

In my recent Synod address (see SC, Sept-Oct), I said that if we were to succeed in establishing one new church for every 30,000 people in greenfields areas, we would need far more men and women training for ministry than are currently in our system.

I asked for every parish to be intentionally prayerful about sending or supporting at least one suitable person to train for full-time ministry at Moore College or Youthworks College in the next three years. …”

– Archbishop Kanishka Raffel writes at SydneyAnglicans.net.

He also reveals that a diocesan Day of Prayer for Mission has been called for May 4, 2025.

Moore College’s “Give Praise to the Lord Appeal”

“The good news of Jesus is still the very best news you could ever share and it changes lives. There are churches in Sydney with no full-time gospel workers. With so many living in the darkness the need for more workers for the harvest is paramount.…

Tim, and his wife Leanne, were prompted to pursue theological education when their greater Sydney church struggled for years to secure a senior minister. …”

– Moore College’s end-of-year appeal.

All the families of the earth – Genesis 11:27-12:9

Last week, Moore College Principal Dr Mark Thompson spoke about the Promise to Abraham as the College comes to the end of the academic year.

It’s not only Moore College students who need to be reminded of God’s promises and why we’re here.

Watch or listen at the Moore College website.

Dr Veronica Hoyt joins the Moore College Faculty

“On Friday evening the Governing Board approved the Principal’s nomination of Dr Veronica Hoyt to become a member of the Moore College Faculty. Veronica will take up the post of Lecturer in Ministry and Director of the Priscilla and Aquila Centre.

Veronica and her husband Berwyn are members of St Thomas’ North Sydney where she has been the Women’s Minister. …”

– News from Moore College.

New Moore College Lecturer in Ministry and Dean of Students

“Rev Malcolm York, currently Rector of St Andrew’s Roseville, has been nominated as Lecturer in Ministry and Dean of Students for Moore College starting in January 2025.

With a depth of experience in parish ministry Mal has the heart and the skills needed for this important teaching and pastoral role. …”

– Announcement from Moore College.

Moore College’s Annual Report 2024

Moore College’s Annual Report for 2024 is now available to read online or download from their website.

A good reminder to pray for the College.

Dr Tony Payne to Lecture in Christian Thought at Moore College

“The College is thrilled to announce the appointment of Rev Dr Tony Payne as Lecturer in Christian Thought (Ethics) from November 2024.

Currently serving at Campus Bible Study (CBS) in the University of New South Wales as a ministry trainer, Tony has previously served the College in a part-time capacity (2014–2019) as Director of the Centre for Christian Living.

For more than three decades, mainly through his work with Matthias Media, Tony has been regularly sharing reflections on what it means to live the Christian life through books, articles, podcasts and lectures. …”

– Read the news at the Moore College website.

Who am I? The search for identity

At Moore College on Wednesday, 23 October 2024:

“Our culture is obsessed with identity: we’re often told, ‘You do you’ and encouraged to live according to our ‘true and authentic self’, expressing publicly how we feel about ourselves internally.

However, the very concept of personal identity is inherently slippery. It encompasses things like ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, belief, educational background, profession and personality, but it’s not fixed: it can change through time, circumstance and even self-invention.

How should Christians regard identity? …”

– All the details are here.

Phillip Jensen on The national soul – 1 Timothy 2:1-7

Phillip Jensen spoke at Moore College chapel last Friday.

He turns to one of the most controversial passages in the New Testament, 1 Timothy 2:1-7.

Do take the time to watch – and share the link with others in your church.

– Watch here.

A Cloud of Witnesses: Australian Anglicans in Tanzania

Coming up at Moore College:

“The Letter to the Hebrews encourages us with the account of the great cloud of witnesses in the Old Testament – people who lived by faith looking forward to Jesus.

The Moore College Archives encourage us with some of the witness of people of more modern times who have stepped out in faith looking to Jesus as they went to serve God in Tanzania. How do they encourage and challenge us today? What shaped their faith? What shaped their passions? What were their aims in mission? How do they ‘strengthen our feeble arms and weak knees’?

Speaker – Rev Dr Colin Reed, former CMS missionary.

Colin Reed grew up in Africa. He has served with CMS as a missionary in Tanzania (along with his wife Wendy), on staff of the NSW & ACT Branch, and as Principal of St Andrew’s Hall. Over many years, Colin has studied and written on the history of the Church in East Africa. …”

– Details and registration (free!) at the College website.

Moore College Open Events — Friday 27 and Saturday 28 September 2024

Know someone interested in studying at Moore College?

There are open events on Friday and Saturday of this week.

Moore Matters — Spring 2024

The latest issue of Moore Matters from Moore College is now available – at churches across Sydney – and for download from the College website.

This issue is especially encouraging – with news from Bathurst, Canberra, Adelaide, Tasmania, North West Australia, and more.

– Download or read online here.

Knowing Jesus when it hurts

“Imagine that God gave you a vision of heaven. One moment you sit praying, the next God’s Spirit has lifted you into the heavenlies. You gaze around at the heavenly reality. You see the glories of the Father and the wonders of the seraphim and angels.

Perhaps you catch a taste of what it means to be without sin, to live unencumbered by the desires of the flesh. In ways that you will never find words to express you feel something of the glory of life in the presence of the living God. And then, just as quickly as it began, it’s over.

I wonder, if you had such a vision, who would you tell about it? I wonder, how quickly would you tell them? Would you post it online, phone a friend, talk to your pastor? …”

– Very helpful article from Paul Grimmond at SydneyAnglicans.net.

2024 Annual Moore College Lectures now online

Video recordings of the 2024 Annual Moore College Lectures by Dr Tom Schreiner have now been published online.

Dr Schreiner, Associate Dean for the School of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kentucky, spoke on “The Battle for the Truth of the Gospel” from the Letter to the Galatians.

Watch them here.

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