Australia’s Seven network featured a fifteen minute segment on Hillsong Church recently on its flagship current affairs program, Sunday Night. Hillsong’s leader, Brian Houston is interviewed at some length. Even if you have little interest in Hillsong, the questioning provided by Monique Wright, the journalist that features in the piece, is fascinating. They reveal astounding …
On the Sydney Presbyterian Theological College (PTC) blog Peter Moore writes a series of articles entitled ‘Rhetorical Feature Of The Week’. Moore takes a Greek word descriptive of some rhetorical device which he then encourages preachers to make use of in their sermons. This week he features what he calls: προσωποποίια (prosōpopoiia) ‘to create characters’. …
Have you ever given a (reflective) narrative of your whole life in sixty to ninety minutes? How many times and to how many people? In most relationships this information usually gets passed on in bits and pieces over time. One thing we are doing this week is hearing each other’s stories. It will form the …
Headline points from Ray Ortlund. 1. We can rejoice in one another, because the Lord rejoices in us. 2. We can create an environment of trust rather than negative scrutiny. 3. We can judge ourselves, even as we give each other the benefit of the doubt. 4. If a problem must be addressed, we can …
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