Gender Matters

Posted on July 26, 2012 
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Last Sunday William Taylor, Rector of St. Helen’s Bishopsgate, preached on Gender, Authority and Sexuality.

The 45 minute address is available in video and audio formats.

Adoniram Judson biography — free eBook

Posted on July 26, 2012 
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Originally an address to pastors, John Piper’s biography of Adoniram Judson, pioneer missionary to Burma, is now available in a short e-book from Desiring God.

New Principal for SMBC

Posted on July 25, 2012 
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The Board of the Sydney Missionary and Bible College has announced that new Principal of the College will be the Rev Stuart Coulton.

Stuart studied at Moore College in the 1980s. He has served as Pastor of the Presbyterian churches in Burwood (1987-1991) and Blacktown (1991-2002) before teaching full time at SMBC from 2002. He has been Vice-Principal since 2004. Announcement here (PDF file).

The evangelistic strategy of the Book of Common Prayer

Posted on July 25, 2012 
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Lee Gatiss writes:

“It’s not entirely a Puritan thing. But it is very much a seventeenth century thing. Last week I gave a talk to a bunch of Anglicans at a clergy conference all about the evangelistic strategy of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.” – Download the audio file from Meet the Puritans.

Mentioned in the talk: An English Prayer Book – free resource from Church Society.

Limited Atonement in the Bible, Doctrine, History, and Ministry

Posted on July 25, 2012 
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Andy Naselli draws attention to “a concise and helpful new book on a controversial issue: Lee Gatiss. For Us and For Our Salvation: “Limited Atonement” in the Bible, Doctrine, History, and Ministry. London: Latimer Trust, 2012.

– Read more here.

Should we pray to the Spirit?

Posted on July 24, 2012 
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“People often ask their pastor – “Is it right to pray to the Spirit?” I wonder – do you have an answer? Do you have a practice in your own prayer life? …”

– Adrian Reynolds at The Proclamation Trust shares some thoughts and a prayer from The Valley of Vision.

Communiqué of the Global South Primates, Bangkok, 20 July 2012

Posted on July 21, 2012 
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“We, the Primates and representatives of 17 Global South Provinces, met in Bangkok, Thailand, from 18-20 July 2012, in conjunction with the Global South Conference on the Decade of Mission and Networking. …

6.  We note with great sadness the passing of Resolution A049 at the 77th General Convention of The Episcopal Church which authorized a liturgy for blessing same-sex unions. This action confirms our disappointment that The Episcopal Church has no regard for the concerns and convictions of the vast majority of Anglicans worldwide.

7.  We stand in solidarity with our brethren in the Communion Partners who have dissented from this action. …”

– from the Communiqué from the meeting.

The Dark Night in Denver — groping for answers

Posted on July 21, 2012 
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Albert Mohler reflects on the tragic events in Colorado –

“The Fall released human moral evil into the cosmos, and every single human being is a sinner, tempted by a full range of sinfulness. When someone does something as seemingly unthinkable as this, we often question how anyone could do such a thing. …” – Read it all here.

Related, an opinion-piece on movie violence written in 2008 – ‘Our attitude to violence is beyond a joke as new Batman film, The Dark Knight, shows’.

The Gospel and its Proclamation

Posted on July 21, 2012 
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Dr Barry Newman has been blogging on the meaning of the word gospel.

“The gospel is so extraordinary and proclaiming it so much an imperative that I thought it would be a good idea to produce a blog series reminding ourselves of what the New Testament says about the gospel and its proclamation. Furthermore it may prove to be informative to see how these two Greek words are used outside of the New Testament, say, up until the end of the 1st century A.D. There are indeed some interesting differences between New Testament usages and the way the words are used in the Greek literature external to the New Testament.”

He’s just completed the series, and all of the posts can be downloaded as a single PDF file. Well worth downloading and reading.

Three lessons from crisis and decline in the mainline denominations

Posted on July 19, 2012 
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Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School in Alabama, draws three lessons from the crisis in TEC and other denominations –

“1. There is an intrinsic connection between spiritual vitality and theological integrity.
2. The continuing saga and approaching collapse of mainline denominations should prompt us to pray.
3. Evangelicals have no room to boast or gloat over the ‘sickness unto death’ in the mainlines.”

– full article at The Gospel Coalition.

Understanding Islam

Posted on July 19, 2012 
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The White Hose Inn broadcast recently featured a two-part interview on ‘understanding Islam’. Michael Horton interviewed Islamic specialist Adam Francisco. Worth hearing. Part 1. Part 2.

Sydney Anglicans V: A commitment to world mission

Posted on July 19, 2012 
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Mark Thompson turns to the gospel’s global concern in part five of his series on Sydney Anglicans –

“A concern to reach the lost with the good news of Jesus, whether they be down the road or across the globe, will transform how we live as Christians in a myriad of ways. Not least it will keep us from elevating to prime importance things of little consequence.”

Read it all here –

“Sydney Anglicanism is a product of the evangelical missionary movement. The same people who were vitally involved in the early days of the Church Missionary Society were involved in ensuring evangelical chaplains were sent to the young colony to preach the gospel to the convicts, settlers and indigenous people of the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit. Mission and ministry were intertwined from these early days and have remained so ever since. To this day one of the most significant annual events in the Diocese of Sydney is the week-long CMS Summer School, held in the Blue Mountains at Katoomba.  Read more

Free eBook on Sanctification

Posted on July 18, 2012 
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Desiring God has made available a free eBook on Sanctification – including three sermons on the topic from John Piper.

A measure of security in an insecure world

Posted on July 18, 2012 
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“Australians, Field Marshall Thomas Blamey commented about the time of the outbreak of WW2, were like gazelles playing on the edge of a jungle, completely oblivious to the dangers all around. He spoke those words in the shadow of the greatest threat Australia had ever faced.

Things are not that critical as I write but I think we Australians still take for granted something that it has cost generations of Australian Servicemen and Women in peace and war a great deal to protect. That is the security that we are so inclined to take for granted. …”

– Geoff Webb, Principal Chaplain Army, writes about security – both temporal and eternal – at Defence Anglicans.

Pokies: Who cares?

Posted on July 17, 2012 
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“I remain sickened by the tragedy upon tragedy caused by poker machine gambling. What needs to happen for our political leaders to act in compassion on this matter? State Governments gamble life and lives away through their support of poker machine gambling – often deceptively referred to as ‘gaming’ [Oh, Please!].…”

– Bishop of Tasmania John Harrower pleads with political leaders to act.

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