Moore College gives thanks for the life of Dr. B. Ward Powers

Posted on June 3, 2022
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“Moore College gives thanks for the life of Dr. B. Ward Powers who died on 7th May 2022.

Dr. Powers graduated from Moore College in 1959 and joined the Moore College staff as the Secretary for External Studies in 1964. …”

– This tribute from Moore College.

More on Application — David Cook

Posted on June 2, 2022
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“We have all heard the sermon which rambles for 30 minutes and ends whimpishly, ‘let him who has ears, hear what the Spirit is saying’.

Application is the ‘so what’ factor of the sermon, it is showing the audience the implications for daily living, showing how information may be transformative. …”

– David Cook writes with encouragement for preachers at The Expository Preaching Trust.

Head of Nigeria’s Methodist Church freed by kidnappers

Posted on June 2, 2022
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“The head of the Methodist Church in Nigeria, the Most Rev Dr Samuel Kanu Uche, has been released after being abducted on Sunday 29 May. …”

– Report from Barnabas Fund.

The Story of the Kriol Preya Buk (2012 — 2021)

Posted on June 2, 2022
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The Diocese of the Northern Territory has published this information page – with a link to an encouraging 4 minute video – about the Kriol Preya Buk which was launched at the diocesan Synod last year.

A great encouragement.

“Anglicans, for hundreds of years, have had a very important principle that Christians should worship God in their own language.” – Bishop Greg Anderson.

Making key staff appointments with Bruce Clarke and Pete Stedman

Posted on June 1, 2022
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“How do you find the right key person to join your ministry team?

There are questions like:

• What is the person’s heart for God and the gospel?
• What is the person’s relationship with authority?
• How do we recruit to a vision and strategy?
• What are the pitfalls of interviews?
• What are the first questions to ask referees?
• Who else to involve in the process?”

This week on The Pastor’s Heart.

How to rid yourself of ministry bitterness: pour out your heart to God

Posted on May 31, 2022
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“Dear friends,

‘Will I be bitter for eternity because of what has happened to me in Christian ministry?’

I was asked this question by an old minister at a conference. It relates to a common problem in ministry, the bitterness that grows from how other people treat us or what they say to us, or don’t say to us, their expectations of us, their neglect, opposition, their attacks, their slander, how we have to live and work with the consequences of their mistakes, the conditions under which we work and live, their desire for control of the church or ministry or us! …”

– Wise and encouraging advice from Peter Adam.

African church leader to address GAFCON Australasia

Posted on May 30, 2022
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“A national church gathering of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) Australasia will hear from international leaders including GAFCON General Secretary, Archbishop Ben Kwashi. …”

– Russell Powell at SydneyAnglicans.net gives a preview of the conference.

Photo: Archbishop Kwashi with Archbishop Peter Jensen in Jerusalem in 2018.

Bishop Mark Calder speaks at Moore College on The Good Shepherd, John 10:1-18

Posted on May 30, 2022
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Last week Bishop of Bathurst Mark Calder preached at Moore College and also shared encouraging updates from across the diocese.

Embracing a Hostile World — Queen’s Birthday Conference 2022

Posted on May 29, 2022
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“The Bible tells us that God loved the world yet commands us not to love the world. So how do we live as a Christian in this world?

Are we to love it like God or reject it as He commanded us?

How do world mission and holiness hold together?”

– Read about (and register for) the Queen’s Birthday Conference 2022 – at Moore College, or online for those outside Sydney.

Moore Q&A Video Series

Posted on May 28, 2022
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Moore College has launched a new video series – Moore Q & A.

The series of nine videos features a panel of Moore College lecturers (Jane Tooher, Chase Kuhn, Dan Wu and Lionel Windsor) answering questions about the Christian life – including stewardship and generosity, vocational ministry, and much more.

Watch the videos on Moore’s Youtube channel as they release them over the next month.

The anatomy of an Anglican service

Posted on May 27, 2022
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From The Australian Church Record:

“Today we begin a new series of five articles on the elements that make up an Anglican service.

These pieces by the Moore College student orientation team were developed in 2022 to help new students understand the theological logic behind the Anglican services – based on the Book of Common Prayer – that are followed in Moore College chapel.

We’re sharing these because they help to demonstrate how and why Anglicans do what we do in church, for the encouragement and building up of the saints to maturity in Jesus Christ. We hope that you find them beneficial!”

Published so far –

More to come at The Australian Church Record.

Portrait of Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke.

A message for Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week

Posted on May 26, 2022
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The Rev. Michael Duckett, who leads Macarthur Indigenous Church, has shared a prayer and video message for Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week.

The video could be downloaded for use in church.

“As God’s people, and as his church, we have the responsibility to be ambassadors of reconciliation. So I want to encourage us … that we would be bringing the true message of reconciliation to this country.”

Read and watch at SydneyAnglicans.net.

Commanding the heart: Lust

Posted on May 26, 2022
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Marshall Ballantine-Jones and Dani Treweek spoke on “Commanding the heart: Lust” at a Centre for Christian Living event at Moore College on 4 May 2022.

“Jesus raises alarm when he warns us that adultery isn’t limited to sexual intercourse outside of marriage, but begins earlier in the lustful glance of the eye and in mental fantasies. Adultery isn’t just physical; it can be done in the heart. So great is the threat of a wandering eye or straying hand that Jesus suggests losing a part of the body instead of facing the fire of hell.

Kingdom righteousness demands more than physical abstinence from sex outside of marriage, but not less. In view of such teaching, what kind of sexual conduct is becoming of a disciple of Jesus?

Dr Marshall Ballantine-Jones and Dani Treweek help us consider how to deal with lust in our hearts.”

The video has now been made available. Very sobering and very helpful.

Adultery of the heart – SydneyAnglicans.net.

Review: The Air We Breathe by Glen Scrivener

Posted on May 26, 2022
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“The western world’s relationship to the Christian faith is like a celebrity marriage—complicated.

At one level, our culture’s rejection of its ancestral faith has never been so enthusiastic, so complete, so aggressive. It looks, for all intents and purposes, like a divorce of the acrimonious variety. And yet, our world remains so deeply Christian. We continue to use the convictions, the thought-forms, and even the metaphysics of the faith we are so keen to reject. …

Enter Glen Scrivener’s new book, The Air We Breathe. In it, Scrivener provides a compelling, well-researched, and confident account of the West’s debt to Christianity and to Christ.”

– At The Gospel Coalition Australia, Rory Shiner provides a brief and encouraging review of a new book by Glen Scrivener.

Image: Glen Scrivener at Speak Life.

The book is available from The Wandering Bookseller.