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Holding Out for a Hero (Judges 1-3)
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Anglican Church, Neutral Bay
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The God of Kindness (Ruth 2)
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay.
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Getting with the Program (Ephesians 3)
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay.
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Peace In Our Time (Ephesians 2:11-22)
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay
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The Program (Ephesians 1:1-14)
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay
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Following the Crucified One (John 15:12-16:4)
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay
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The gospel and autism
From The Briefing: Today is the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day. According to the Light It Up Blue awareness- and fund-raising campaign: Proposed lighting from Autism Awareness Australia Autism is a complex developmental disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to communicate and develop social relationships, and is often accompanied by behavioral challenges. Autism Spectrum…
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True Freedom (John 8:31-36)
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay.
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Making Christ Known. Together.
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Anglican Church, Neutral Bay.
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Making Christ Known
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay
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Knowing Christ – Together
A sermon preached at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay
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Knowing Christ
On Sunday, I preached my first sermon in my new role as Assistant Minister at St Augustine’s Neutral Bay.
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Hearing her Voice – Some Personal Reflections by Dani Treweek
After my recent interactive book review, it was also worth including these reflections sent to me by Dani Treweek, a friend and colleague involved in Anglican ministry in Sydney. Dani is the Women’s Ministry Trainer and Coordinator at St Matthias Anglican Church, Centennial Park. She joined the St Matthias staff team in 2009 after graduating…
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“Teaching” in the pastoral letters and today: a brief reply
This post is the fourth (and, for the moment, final) instalment in a kind of “interactive book review” of John Dickson’s Hearing Her Voice: A Case for Women Giving Sermons. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a response to John’s book, entitled “What’s happening to our preaching?” John then wrote a reply entitled “In Defence of Inadequate…
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“In Defence of Inadequate Books on Preaching”: John Dickson replies to my critique of Hearing Her Voice
John Dickson has recently written a book, published as an eBook by American company Zondervan, entitled Hearing Her Voice: A Case for Women Giving Sermons. Last week on this site, I wrote a response to John’s book entitled “What’s happening to our preaching?” John wanted to provide a substantial reply to my response. He has requested me to post…
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What’s happening to our preaching? A response to John Dickson: Hearing Her Voice: A Case for Women Giving Sermons
Update (2015): A lot of discussion has occurred since I wrote this review – including a book-length response. See here for a detailed history of the discussion, with links. On Boxing Day 2012,* a series of electronic booklets called “Fresh Perspectives on Women in Ministry” was released by Zondervan. One of these booklets was written by…
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Whose incarnation is it anyway?
From The Briefing: Within the heart of the Christian faith is an astounding truth. God—who created and sustains the universe—became incarnate. The immortal and perfect Son of God shared our messy, sin-prone death-ridden lives of flesh and blood; he became human, walked with us, suffered with us, and subjected himself to our temptations. Ultimately, he…
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Speech and the Spirit
We’ve got to move beyond the question, “Is every Christian an evangelist”? I had a go at moving the issue forward in my series of articles and talks entitled “speech and salvation,” focussing mainly on Paul’s letters. Tony Payne in a recent Briefing article addresses the same question in a more comprehensive and practical way. He asks: How…
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Having your heart in your mouth (Romans 10:1-13)
I preached this sermon recently at St Michael’s Anglican Cathedral, Wollongong. Right now, St Michael’s is engaging in a concerted effort to promote conversations about Jesus! People are being asked to complete the sentence, “Jesus is _______.” How would you fill the blank? The sermon grew out of my study of Romans 9-11, which formed chapter…
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Book recommendation – helping kids to navigate the digital age
For all parents and pastors, I highly recommend Jim Steyer’s book Talking Back to Facebook: The CommonSense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age. For the sake of our kids, we need to model and teach responsible, informed use of digital and social media. We can’t simply avoid it, but we mustn’t embrace it uncritically…
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The “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” quite likely a modern forgery
Admittedly, “Jesus had a wife” is a more sensational headline than “Media outlets fooled by modern forgery.” But it seems the latter headline is more likely to be correct. My PhD supervisor, Professor Francis Watson, an expert in early Christian texts, makes a compelling case that the fragment which has come to be assumed to…
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Why does everyone want Jesus to get married?
From The Briefing: It’s déjà Vinci time. There’s been lots of hype recently, but here’s my summary of the publicly known facts: A few centuries after Jesus was around, various people had various ideas about various things. Some people living at some point up to 300 years after Jesus lived possibly claimed that Jesus had…
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Moore College School of Theology 2012: Exploring the Psalms
Each year, Moore College in Sydney runs a two-day conference on a biblical / theological topic. This year’s topic was the Psalms. As I said in a Vox Pop during the conference, I really appreciated the way in which all the presenters demonstrated an obvious love of God, nurtured by and expressed through a love…
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A husband’s sacrificial love: what does it actually look like?
From The Briefing: Commenting on a previous post, Andrew asked a question that was so worthwhile it deserves a whole new discussion: I find the discussions about submission and love and even mutual submission helpful but a bit hard to understand practically. Often the discussion is centred around the controversial passages and is understandably directed…
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Word-watch: lessons from a naïve blogger
From The Briefing: A few days ago I wrote a short article in which I used the word ‘submission.’ I’ve just now realized that by using this word, I was being a bit naïve. The realization of my own naivety came when I read Kara Martin’s helpful review of the book Fifty Shades of Grey…
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