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Theology Essay Title Generator
This little beauty is doing the rounds on facebook at the moment, unattributed but possible by someone called Rich Wyld? Either way, sure to save some students a lot of time and brain racking!
View ArticleGoogle Reader Dies and the Little Fishes Cry
I know I am late to the party on the one. I am not the most faithful blogger these days as three kids and a more than full-time job mean i just can't take the time I used to to follow and write blogs....
View Article2 Cor 12:5-7: The Switch
Mystic or Sarcastic? Visions and Revelations in 2 Corinthians 12:1-10. Part 6The sticking point for many scholars with the idea that 12:1-4 is not Paul's own vision, including the ones I have run this...
View ArticleConcluding that Paul is Sarcastic
Mystic or Sarcastic? Visions and Revelations in 2 Corinthians 12:1-10. Part 7Having made the switch, and admitted that if he boasted in visions he would do so truthfully (implying that the SA were not...
View ArticlePastors: Making it up as you go along
Last year I read through Eugene Peterson's book The Pastor in about two days. It was a really good read and I read it too fast. But as I went I took notes of places I would revisit. Which I intend to...
View ArticleSermon Application?
Some guy is spouting off about sermon application on the kiwi-made-preaching blog, go there and tell him to stop being so annoying. :-)
View ArticleWhat if?
I've been thinking about evangelism a lot since becoming a pastor again. My biggest struggle is the way we present "the gospel" to people. We have such an individualistic approach, and most...
View ArticleTozer on Books
I thought this Tozer quote was worth sharing, a challenge for us bookish types. :-)Beware the common habit of putting confidence in books, as such. It takes a determined effort of mind to break the...
View ArticleBrunner on praying as sinners
In his sermon on Luke 18:9-14, the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, Brunner writesDoes this imply that we are continually to come before God with this prayer on our lips: "God , be...
View ArticleFreedom from wages, freedom to build something beautiful
When I saw this fascinating videoit made me think of this Biblical instructionLuke 10:1-9 (NIV)10 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town...
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Summer Tanning Advice
Well this is the wrong time of the year for us antipodeans but due to the hole in the ozone we need this advice year round.It was doing the rounds on facebook, no idea who the creator is, happy to be...
View ArticleAugustine in the NZ bush
This film was based around a poem St Augustine wrote about being so consumed by the world that we loose sight of everything Godly around us. Directors - Aaron Long + Gustavo Acero Cinematographer -...
View Articlebrick a brack 071013
Hi long suffering and much neglected blog fans, a little brick a brack to warm your cockles . . .Candida Moss has been stirring up trouble, taking on O'Reilly (HT Robert Myle's nu blog) to argue that...
View ArticleSame Sex Marriage and Baptist Ecclesiology
My friend and fellow worker in the Lord's vineyards of western central Auckland, Rhett, has a couple of good posts first before last weeks national assembly of the Baptist Union of New Zealand and then...
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quote of the day: Marshall on criticism
Honesty compels me to admit that there are times when exactly the wrong person at exactly the wrong time with exactly the wrong motives has nevertheless said exactly the right thing.Tom Marshall,...
View ArticleHermeneutics and Same Sex Marriage
There are (I think) three basic hermeneutic approaches for those who want to align a pro-same sex marriage view with scripture. And, let's be fair, they may have even arrived at these views from...
View ArticleTrinitarian Evangelism
A short and to the point video on why we need to reinvent our evangelism around the Trinity,Video originally from http://321.revivalmedia.org/why-mention-trinity-in-evangelism/And here is an example of...
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quote of the day: Capon on Unnecessary Goodnesss
Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than it is useful. Robert Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p 40...
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Fighting for . . . ?
There is a sad tendency for Christianity to become associated with belligerence and intolerance and to be know for fighting over issues which seem only loosely connected to the gospel. Perhaps this is...
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