Vaughan Roberts at Moore College chapel

Vaughan Roberts spoke on Acts 16 (Paul and Silas at Philippi) at Moore College Chapel this morning.

Listen here. (43MB mp3 file.) Super encouraging.

(You can hear other recent chapel sermons here.)

Knowing God in dementia

Here’s an encouraging video from Mary Andrews College.

Mark Wormell, who lectures at the college on Ministry with Seniors, speaks about ‘Knowing God in dementia’.

Speaking of domestic abuse

“I want to talk about four traps that await us when we try to understand and respond to domestic abuse.

They are: a tendency towards totalizing; seeing abuse as a gender issue; misapplication of the Bible; and avoiding the Bible’s teaching about men and women…”

– on the newly revamped Equal But Different website, Dr. Claire Smith writes to help Christians respond rightly to domestic abuse.

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert — free audiobook August 2015

The Christian Audio free download for August 2015 is The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield.

It’s read by the author, and the zipped mp3 version is 207MB in size.

Societas 2015 launched

Just in time for Moore College Sunday (being observed in many churches this weekend), the 2015 edition of the Moore College students’ magazine, Societas, has been released.

It’s available online – to view or download using ISSUU – or to download as an 11.2MB PDF file from the college website.

Be a Gospel Patron

At GoThereFor, Tony Payne interviews John Rinehart, an advocate of ‘gospel patronage’.

Very encouraging.

And his book is available at Matthias Media.

Speak now, or forever hold your peace

“Marriage is the exclusive union between a man and a woman.”

“It wasn’t so long ago that making a statement like this wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow. In fact, if you’d said this, most people would have responded with a ‘Yes, and?’. It would be liking stating that the sky is blue, or the Australian cricket team had been disappointing.

Today in Australia, this is perhaps the most controversial statements you can make…”

– At Communicate Jesus, Steve Kryger pleads with Christian leaders to actually lead Christians in responding to the challenge of same-sex marriage.

William Taylor on the wrath of God

William Taylor at St Helen’s Bishopsgate in London preached from Romans 1:16-23 at a lunchtime gathering to explain why everyone needs the gospel.

28 minute audio.

Pride

“According to Solomon, of the seven things God hates, pride tops the list (Proverbs 6:16 – 19).

CS Lewis called pride, “that complete anti-God state of mind – it leads to every other vice!”. Martin Luther claimed that his greatest enemy was not the Pope or Cardinal, but the enemy within, his own pride…”

– Presbyterian Moderator-General David Cook writes.

True Repentance — Peter Jensen on Judges chapter 10

From Moore College:

“Former Archbishop (and College Principal) Peter Jensen preached on Judges 10 at St Andrew’s Cathedral on 12 July.

We are convinced this is a message that should be heard by as many people as possible and are pleased to be able to make it available through our podcast.”

Listen to Archbishop Peter Jensen’s sermon here (14MB mp3 file).

Same-sex intimate unions

Moore Theological College Principal, Dr Mark Thompson, has written a very helpful piece to aid Christians in their thinking and discourse in the current debate around same-sex marriage. Read more