Thanks to Craig Schwarze for pointing this out, and to Tim Challies for highlighting it. This Sunday is the 225th anniversary of the first Christian service in Australian, led by the Reverend Richard Johnson. A lot of churches will probably be talking about this on Sunday, so I thought I would put up the facts …
From a longer transcript of an interview with New Testament scholar Darrell Bock. ht We tend to preach the Gospel as if it’s only about the forgiveness of sins. But, in fact, the whole point about having your sins forgiven is to reconnect you to God so that you can live the life He’s designed …
The suicide of a nurse who was one of the victims of a prank call to a London hospital by Sydney radio presenters has been covered in overwhelming depth in other places. Noting the difference between a guilt/justice based culture (the West) and a shame/honour based culture (the East, sub-continent and Africa), it seems that …
A few links to initial posts about the death of John ‘Chappo’ Chapman. Gordon Cheng linked to this video in which Chapman recounts his conversion. Mark Thompson offers a brief remembrance at Theological Theology. Sydney Anglicans offers a report with comments by Archbishop Peter Jensen. Nathan Campbell writes of the impact which Chapman has had …
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