Latest from North West Australia
Posted on December 2, 2008
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The December 2008 issue of Northwest Network – and the December–January Prayer Notes for the Diocese of North West Australia – are now online.
Please be encouraged to use them to pray for the the churches of the North West. They’re available at the DNWA website.
Original Sin and Justification by Faith
Posted on December 1, 2008
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Back in 1953, the Rev Broughton Knox, who was in the UK for his doctoral studies, gave a lecture at the Oxford Conference of Evangelical Churchmen. His topic? Original Sin and Justification by Faith.
The text was published in Churchman – and Church Society has just republished it on their website as a PDF file.
Thinking about The Big Day in?
Posted on December 1, 2008
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Connect09 will be launched at 10:00am on Sunday February 8th 2009 with a telecast featuring music, videos, and an address from Archbishop Peter Jensen.
Churches wanting to view (and project) the live video will be able to stream it over the web.
A simpler solution may be to receive it through the The Australian Christian Channel – either via cable TV – or via free-to-air Standard Definition digital TV on Digital Forty Four (broadcast on UHF channel 35 from Gore Hill).
For details on Digital Forty Four, including their coverage map, see their website. (Prior testing with equipment in place is a very good idea.) See the Connect09 website for more.
‘Close call for bishop’
Posted on November 30, 2008
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The Bishop of South Sydney Robert Forsyth is in a satisfactory condition in hospital on Norfolk Island after suffering a heart attack during a week long visit.
– Full story at SydneyAnglicans.net.
Archbishop Ben Kwashi appeals for urgent prayer
Posted on November 29, 2008
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“The Archbishop of Jos, Rt Rev Ben Kwashi, reports that following peaceful elections whose results have not yet been announced, at 2 a.m. this morning crowds of Muslims burnt Trinity Church, Bauchi Road, Jos, and then moved in to Jos itself macheteing people. He reports that Christians are clearly the targets of the violence.”
– report from Anglican Mainstream.
In an e-mail to supporters, Archbishop Kwashi writes,
“We need prayer to stay the hand the hand of bloodshed, destruction, violence and death. Pray for instant return to peace and order.”
(Image: Based on Google maps.)
Mark Dever on the difficulty of doing evangelism as a Pastor
Posted on November 29, 2008
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In anticipation of their forthcoming Pastors’ Conference, the people at Desiring God have posted online some helpful short video clips of Mark Dever and John Piper.
Mark Dever on the difficulty of doing evangelism as a Pastor can be seen here – and the list of all the clips is available at Desiring God.
Preaching to the heart
Posted on November 28, 2008
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Last week, Tim Keller, Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, spoke at a preaching conference at Oak Hill College in London. His topic? Preaching to the heart.
Oak Hill has generously made the audio available on its website.
The Shack reviewed
Posted on November 28, 2008
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Back in May, we linked to some reviews of ‘The Shack’ by William P. Young.
Given the popularity of the book and the number of glowing reviews available, it may be helpful to re-read the links from our earlier post.
Episcopal Life on JSC meeting
Posted on November 27, 2008
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was among those attending the JSC [Joint Standing Committee] meeting, which was held behind closed doors at the Anglican Communion Office and Lambeth Palace in London.
She noted that a November 26 report in The Times of London newspaper, that suggested the JSC had discussed plans to discipline the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone for its recent incursions into other provinces, was untrue. “The subject has not come up,” she told Episcopal News Service. …
– Full report from Episcopal Life Online. (Photo:ACNS/Rosenthal.)
Edwin Judge: The importance of history
Posted on November 27, 2008
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The Centre for Public Christianity has made available a number of video clips from a interview with Professor Edwin Judge conducted by John Dickson.
Professor Judge of Macquarie University is a widely known and respected authority on the Roman Empire.
The segment “The importance of history” and related clips are linked on this page.
Preach Christ in all the Scriptures?
Posted on November 27, 2008
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Last weekend’s broadcast from the White Horse Inn tackles whether our preaching is actually focussed on Christ – or on felt needs. Graeme Goldsworthy is acknowledged as a great help in thinking through these issues.
“We Preach Not Ourselves” (November 23, 2008) is available – in several formats – at oneplace.com.
Conservative Anglicans face ‘punishment’
Posted on November 26, 2008
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A conservative province in the Anglican church faces “punishment” this week for offering a safe haven to conservatives.Senior bishops and laity meeting in London are to consider suspending the Anglican church in South America for taking rebel US dioceses under its wing. …– Story from Ruth Gledhill at TimesOnline. (Photo: ACNS Rosenthal.)
JSC and ACC meet at Lambeth Palace
Posted on November 26, 2008
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Primates, bishops, lay people from the various regions of the Anglican Communion are meeting this week at the Anglican Communion Office and Lambeth Palace in London. The group meets on a regular basis between official gatherings of their larger meetings.
Members of the Joint Standing Committee … are focussing attention on the forthcoming meetings of the Primates, in February in Alexandria, Egypt, the ACC in Jamaica, in May and ongoing business. …
– Press release from the Anglican Communion News Service. (Photo: ACNS Rosenthal.)
Ft Worth to Schori: Stop border crossing
Posted on November 26, 2008
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Bishop Jack Iker of Fort Worth has responded to his supposed inhibition by the TEC Presiding Bishop:
“Katharine Jefferts Schori has no authority over me or my ministry as a Bishop in the Church of God. She never has, and she never will.
Since November 15, 2008, both the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and I as the Diocesan Bishop have been members of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. As a result, canonical declarations of the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church pertaining to us are irrelevant and of no consequence.
The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker
Bishop of Fort Worth”
And from the Fort Worth Standing Committee: Read more
National Geographic blows it again
Posted on November 26, 2008
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, my mother had a subscription to the National Geographic and I regularly perused its issues. It had a reputation as recently as the 1980s for a high degree of accuracy and the avoidance of sensationalism. Some time between then and this decade something went awry. …
– New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg. (Photo: Denver Seminary.)
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