Foundations: new website by Peter Corney
Peter Corney writes:
“Due to the generous help of a friend I have recently developed a website that contains a number of articles I have written and resources I have developed over the years. It will also have a couple of my books that are now out of print downloadable as PDFs. I also plan to place new material regularly on the site.
The site is called ‘Foundations’ and its aim is to stimulate creative thinking about Christianity and culture, provide resources for those in Christian leadership and to encourage Christians to be more effective in our mission of sharing Christ with the world.
The material is all freely available under the Creative Commons licence and acknowledgement of material used would be appreciated. I pray that you may find it useful and stimulating. I would appreciate any feedback you might want to give.”
Peter was the Senior Minister at at St. Hilary’s Kew in Melbourne until 1999 and is well known to many ACL members. He was the guest speaker at the ACL AGM in 1991. His 1992 book ‘The Welcoming Church’ has been used widely around Australia. You can hear his talk on ‘Being a Welcoming Church’ here.
See the website at petercorney.com.
Peter Jensen on Sunrise (updated)
From the Bible Society —
“Dr Peter Jensen will be giving an exclusive interview to Channel 7’s Sunrise at 8:15am tomorrow morning (23 Sept). Sunrise will be unveiling the Jesus. All about Life TV adverts exclusively across the nation.”
Update: You can now watch the segment here.
From the Bishop of NWA, September 2009
In the current issue of North West Network, David Mulready, Bishop of North West Australia, writes on ministry in his sparsely populated diocese. It’s a good reminder to keep the churches of the North West in your prayers –
“What a terrific time Maureen and I had visiting the Kimberley in July. We flew into Kununurra and spent several days with the growing ministry team. Large numbers of tourists were in town for the ‘dry season’ with hundreds of campers and caravans. Read more
Inspiring People: John Anderson
Former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson speaks with Karl Faase at one of last week’s ‘Inspiring People’ events – about what’s wrong with Australian society. See the 1 min 45 sec clip on Vimeo.
(Thanks to SydneyAnglicans.net)
What we can learn from Charles Simeon
“September 24 2009 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Charles Simeon, a great man of God whose 54-year ministry at Holy Trinity, Cambridge (1782–1836) had such a remarkable impact on the work of the gospel in this country and much further afield.
At the time of his conversion as a first-year undergraduate, there was only a handful of evangelical ministers in the Church of England, but, by the time of his death, it is estimated that a third of Anglican pulpits were occupied by evangelicals…”
– Evangelicals Now has published this article based on an address by Vaughan Roberts.
JAAL follow-up resource
Just a reminder that Dominic Steele, Sam Boog and Christians in the Media have produced a course to help people follow up on the questions raised by the Jesus. All About Life campaign.
Read about Jesus: Connections for Life at Christians in the Media.
Andrew Shead on Bible translation
Andrew Shead, who lectures in Old Testament and Hebrew at Moore College, chats about issues in Bible translation. Fascinating discussion at The Common Room.
(h/t Michael Jensen.)
The Calvin @ 500 Conference
“The first day of the Calvin @ 5oo Conference at Moore has been a roaring success. It began with an audio interview between Colin Bale, Head of Church History at Moore, and Bruce Gordon, author of the new Calvin biography about which I have blogged previously…”
– Mark Thompson writes about the Calvin@500 Conference which was held at Moore College on Wednesday and Thursday.
Jesus. All About Life posters
The Bible Society has published online the Jesus. All About Life advertising now placed in bus shelters around NSW.
See them here. (3.2MB PDF file.)
High Noon in Fort Worth
Christian lawyer A S Haley, who blogs at Anglican Curmudgeon, spells out the steps taken by TEC against any diocese that attempts to leave. (h/t Anglican Mainstream.)
See also the Fort Worth website for the latest on the court case.
Be challenged: CMS Summer School 2010
CMS have released a 2 minute video clip to advertise January’s Summer School (Saturday 2nd – Friday 8th January 2010).
Mike Raiter, now Principal of the Bible College of Victoria, is the main speaker at Summer School 2010. As he says, Summer School can be a dangerous place.
Watch the video to find out why – at YouTube or Vimeo. (If you are a registered Vimeo user, you can also download the 9MB WMV file for use in church – or you can request a DVD from Matthew Moffitt at missioned@cms.org.au.)
Archbishop Nicholas Okoh elected Primate of Nigeria
Archbishop Nicholas Orogodo Okoh has been elected as the Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion). His election was announced after the Episcopal Synod held in Umuahia, Abia State on 15th September, 2009. The 56 year old Archbishop Okoh is currently the Archbishop of Bendel Province and Bishop of Asaba.
And from a GAFCON press release –
“Archbishop Dr Peter Jensen, general secretary of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) welcomed the news. ‘Nicholas Okoh was present at the foundation of GAFCON and has played a leading part in the movement. Archbishop Okoh has made a significant contribution as the Chairman of the Theological Resource group. He is an able and committed Christian leader and we warmly welcome his appointment.’”
(Photo: Church of Nigeria.)
Which church should I join?
“I’ve gotten into several conversations with friends lately about which church they should join, or how they should advise their friends to evaluate a church…”
– Mark Dever passes on some wisdom from Richard Bewes.
Large TEC congregation considers leaving
“One of the largest congregations in The Episcopal Church, St. Andrew’s Church of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., may by December become one of the largest congregations to renounce its Episcopal ties. …
‘Since 2003 I have felt compromised by continued association with a denomination that I consider to be apostate,’ Fr. Wood told The Living Church.”
– report from The Living Church. (Image: St. Andrew’s website.)
Top Commentaries
“Over the course of several months, Keith Mathison [of Ligonier Ministries] put together a list of his top 5 commentaries for each book of the Bible…”
– Tim Challies compiled this index page.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…