Looking for a Minister for Paraburdoo / Tom Price
Posted on August 5, 2010
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Bishop of North West Australia, David Mulready, is looking for the right man to be Minister of the Parish of Paraburdoo / Tom Price. It will become vacant in January 2011.
Read the parish profile (2.1MB PDF file) and see a summary of Census data (Tom Price, Paraburdoo).
Interested? Bishop Mulready would be glad to hear from you.
(In any case, you can use the Parish Profile to inform your prayers for the church.)
Killing a Church
Posted on August 4, 2010
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“Murchison argues that Old Money helped define, and unravel, the Episcopal Church. Growth and dynamism require entrepreneurship and risk. But who wants that when you have endowments and beautiful buildings? Provocateurs like Pike and Spong could push far, but there was far too little push back. Why risk the conflict?
Meanwhile, comfortable Episcopal elites, ever with a sense of noblesse oblige, embraced the Civil Rights Movement, denouncing segregation in 1955 as ‘contrary to the mind of Christ.’ Ten Episcopal bishops joined Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. The Episcopal Church then and now has few black members. But commendable civil rights activism sated a thirst for social change among Episcopalians that led directly into the feminist movement, including the 1970s ordination of women, and ultimately homosexual causes in the 1980s to the present. No longer mostly confined to saving souls, church elites saw themselves as liberating American society from ‘privilege.’…”
– in The American Spectator, Mark Tooley reviews Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity by William Murchison. (The book was published in 2009.)
Oak Hill online magazine
Posted on August 3, 2010
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The current issue (Summer 2010) of the Oak Hill College magazine Commentary is now available from their website.
It’s a 5.6MB PDF file (direct link).
Carl Trueman interviewed at Oak Hill
Posted on August 3, 2010
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Carl Trueman, Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary was a Visiting Lecturer at Oak Hill College in London earlier this year.
Principal Mike Ovey asked him about the doctrines of Scripture and of Justification in three videos just posted on the Oak Hill website.
Part 1: The doctrine of Scripture.
Part 2: The doctrine of Justification.
Part 3: Holiness and the New Perspective on Paul.
Total running time of about 24 minutes. Worth watching.
PTC Open Night
Posted on August 3, 2010
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The Presbyterian Theological Centre in Burwood is having an Open Night on Wednesday 25th August 2010 at 7:30pm.
(And Moore College is having an Open Day on 25th September.)
New Moore College video: Meet some of our Students
Posted on August 2, 2010
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This 3 minute 30 second video from Moore College could be used to promote the college in your church. (The 29MB file is downloadable if you are registered with Vimeo.)
Moore College School of Theology 2010
Posted on August 2, 2010
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(Repost) The 2010 Moore College School of Theology is on 1 Corinthians, The Wisdom of the Cross, 15–16 September.
Dr Brian Rosner speaks about it in this video.
In addition, Dr Philip Kern is giving this year’s Moore College Annual Lectures, August 3, 5, 6 10 and 12. His topic? The Story of Jacob in Biblical Theology. Details from the Moore College website.
Tim Keller free Audiobook
Posted on August 2, 2010
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ChristianAudio’s free audiobook download for August 2010 is Tim Keller’s 1997 book Ministries of Mercy – the call of the Jericho road.
Five top Missions books
Posted on August 1, 2010
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Kevin DeYoung writes:
“As you may recall, Greg Gilbert and I are working on a book tentatively titled What is the Mission of the Church? Hence, over the past several months we’ve been reading dozens of missiological tomes. There are tons of missions resources, and we barely scratched the surface with our reading. But from what I’ve read, here are my Fav Five books on the theology of mission…”
– Many of our readers will be familiar with the number one book – and probably the number two book – in Kevin’s list.
The Writing is on the Wall
Posted on July 31, 2010
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“Two weeks ago I wrote ‘Whither the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion?’, posing a number of questions about the lack of transparency, hypocrisy and overreaching by this new ersatz ‘Instrument of Unity’.
Since then, and up to and including the time the Standing Committee (SCAC) met, The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada continued to breach the Windsor moratoria. Please note: the following are not allegations or opinions, they are documented actions by TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada…”
– this week’s update from Canon Phil Ashey of the American Anglican Council.
Do Christians need a Christian prime minister?
Posted on July 30, 2010
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“Recently disendorsed NSW Liberal candidate, David Barker, expressed concern that Julia Gillard was ‘anti-God’ and that a non-Liberal vote would be a vote for Muslims, thus reintroducing religion, kicking and screaming in protest, to the campaign agenda.
Associated with the NSW Christian right, Mr Barker’s comments raise the question of whether Christians in Australia expect a Christian prime minister…”
– Greg Clarke, Director of the Centre for Public Christianity, had this thoughtful opinion-piece published on the ABC’s ‘The Drum Unleashed’ yesterday.
Don Carson on ‘The God Who is There’
Posted on July 30, 2010
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This looks to be very helpful. Andy Naselli writes,
“On February 20-21 and 27-28, 2009, Don Carson presented a 14-part seminar entitled ‘The God Who Is There’ at Bethlehem Baptist Church’s North Campus in Minneapolis. This series will serve the church well because it simultaneously evangelises non-Christians and edifies Christians by explaining the Bible’s storyline in a non-reductionistic way.
The series is geared toward ‘seekers’ and articulates Christianity in a way that causes hearers either to reject or embrace the gospel. It’s one thing to know the Bible’s storyline, but it’s another to know one’s role in God’s ongoing story of redemption. ‘The God Who Is There’ engages people at the worldview-level.
And now MP3s (full) and video (10-minute previews) are available for Carson’s 14-part series…”
– All the links are here. (h/t Justin Taylor.)
Don Carson to preach in Melbourne
Posted on July 29, 2010
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Don Carson is speaking evangelistically in Melbourne, Monday 23rd – Friday 27th August, at Storey Hall, 342 Swanston Street.
Ridley College Principal Dr Peter Adam writes, “This week is put on by Ridley Melbourne, as part of our Centenary celebrations. What better way to celebrate 100 years of ministry than give a gospel message to Melbourne.”
Dr Carson’s topics?
Monday: How can we see God?
Tuesday: How can we start over again?
Wednesday: How can God Have a Son?
Thursday: How to get the Best Bread in the World
Friday: How can I believe Jesus Rose from the Dead?
Details at the Ridey College website – PDF invitation here. (h/t Diocese of Tasmania.)
Culture and Theology seminar on Homosexuality
Posted on July 29, 2010
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Matt Chandler at The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, recently addressed a topic he had previously stayed away from. In a 2 hour Culture and Theology seminar on Homosexuality, Matt provides a great deal of food for thought. Well worth your time.
Dated ‘5.21.10’ on the Studies & Seminars page, here’s a direct link to the 35MB mp3 file.
Moving Forward?
Posted on July 28, 2010
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“After the strident, disdainful renunciation of the Communion’s official teaching concerning sexuality, as expressed in the 1998 Lambeth Resolution 1.10, and in direct opposition to and repudiation of the request of the Instruments of Communion, the response of the Archbishop of Canterbury in his 2010 Pentecost Letter has been as devastating as a feather duster and as effective as an ashtray on a motorbike…”
– Bishop Glenn Davies writes at SydneyAnglicans.net.
Related: ‘Dialogue’ trumps Scripture — again?
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