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Prayer: What are we actually doing? (Ephesians 1:15–16)
“A Muslim, a Jew and an Anglican Minister walk into a classroom”. This was the advertising blurb for a local Community College seminar I participated in a few years ago. I joined a Muslim educator and a Jewish academic (who is also a friend of mine) to give a series of presentations on different aspects…
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The Holy Spirit: Our security (Ephesians 1:14)
The Stanford Marshmallow Experiments are a favourite illustration of motivational speakers. The lesson is this: If you can learn how to delay gratification early in life, you’ll do better in later life. Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? But unfortunately, like many popular conclusions drawn from famous psychological experiments, it doesn’t stand up to closer scrutiny. The…
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The message is the mission (Ephesians 1:13)
What is God’s mission? What means is God using to bring about his purposes in Christ? What does that mean for our own mission as Christians and churches?
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Rejoicing in the blessing of others (Ephesians 1:11–12)
Although the Bible is always relevant to us, not every sentence is directly about us. When we realise this, we can rejoice in God’s blessings even more.
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So here’s the plan (Ephesians 1:8–10)
The God of the universe has a plan to sum up all things in Christ. He’s revealed that plan to us, and is putting it into effect through the gospel.
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Are you trying to redeem yourself? (Ephesians 1:6b–7)
When it comes to God, we can’t redeem ourselves. Redemption is something that God has to do—and has done—for us. This is why it’s such a wonderful thing.
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What if it’s not about me? (Ephesians 1:4–6a)
The Bible gives us a vision for living life that’s the exact opposite of the narcissistic attitude. This is highly confronting, and profoundly comforting.
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Overview of Romans 1–5: PowerPoint
An overview of the logic of Romans 1–5 (PowerPoint file)
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#inChrist (Ephesians 1:3)
Ephesians starts with an explosion of praise for the ‘blessings’ God has given to us. But they’re different from the kind of blessings we often talk about.
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This God (Ephesians 1:2)
Many people believe in ‘God’. But the word ‘God’ means different things to different people. What does the Bible say about God: who he is and what he’s like?
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Amazing holiness (Ephesians 1:1b)
God sees believers in Jesus as holy. This fact is amazing, especially when you grasp the history of the gospel going out from Israel to the nations.
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Paul: in his own words (Ephesians 1:1a)
Who do you think the Apostle Paul is? It’s worth listening carefully to the words Paul himself chooses to define his own identity at the start his letter.
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Lift Your Eyes: Introducing Ephesians
When believers in Jesus were in danger of losing heart, Paul wrote Ephesians. This letter lifts our eyes to see God’s amazing plan through Jesus Christ.
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From temple to meat market in ancient Pompeii
A very quick journey from the temple of Jupiter in Pompeii to the meat market. This helps us to understand 1 Corinthians 8-10 and probably also Romans 14.
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The formation of gentile Christ-believing identity vis-à-vis Israel in Ephesians and Barnabas
Article in the journal Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia. Keywords: Ephesians; Barnabas; Israel; replacement theology; collective memory; ethnic identity
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Where they burn books…
A reflection on “Bibliothek”, the memorial to the Nazi book-burning of 10 May 1933 in Berlin. Could we ever end up in a similar situation?
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Reformation sights in Oxford UK
Some sights in Oxford UK, that are especially significant for Reformation history and the deaths of the Oxford Martyrs Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer.
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Lift Your Eyes: Introducing Ephesians
The central message of Ephesians is that the God of the universe has an amazing plan, which is being put into effect through the preaching of the gospel.
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Who is Jesus for?
Who are the right kind of people according to Jesus? Is Jesus just for one kind of person in our world: Christians versus everyone else? Is Jesus for you?
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The formation of gentile Christ-believing identity vis-à-vis Israel in Ephesians and Barnabas
Article in the journal Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia. Keywords: Ephesians; Barnabas; Israel; replacement theology; collective memory; ethnic identity
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Is God Green?
A short book about what the Bible says about the environment: why the world is in a mess, where it’s headed, and what to do about it in the here and now.
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Vale Donald Robinson
From SydneyAnglicans: One of the towering figures of Anglicanism in the 20th century and former Archbishop of Sydney Bishop Donald Robinson, has died at the age of 95. … The first to pay tribute was the current Archbishop of Sydney, Glenn Davies, … “We have lost a giant in the world of New Testament scholarship” Dr…
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Interview with Sydney Anglicans about the War on Waste
I was interviewed by SydneyAnglicans.net about the TV series War on Waste: “Our cause should be the gospel, and that gospel will reshape everything”
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Cultural Encounters review of Reading Ephesians and Colossians After Supersessionism
My book Reading Ephesians and Colossians After Supersessionism has been reviewed in the Cultural Encounters Journal (A Journal for the Theology of Culture).
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What is the Lord’s Supper? (and what to do with it)
The Lord’s Supper: What it is, what it isn’t, and what to do with it. A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Anglican Church, Neutral Bay.
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