Moore College has introduced a new preaching subject this year. We meet for an hour a week with 2 faculty and a group of 5-10 students. Each week someone gives a sermon, and the rest of us offer feedback. I’m only in one group, so can’t speak for all the other ones, but it’s been a [...]
In my former life as a sportsman, I had a number of injuries. Both ankles. Rectus femuris. Both thumbs. Lower back. Both shoulders. Out of all my injuries, I managed to never break a bone. Until last night. I broke my toe. The little one. On my left foot. I haven’t been to a doctor, [...]
Mid-year exams rock my Winter. We’re currently on StuVac at the moment. Next week it’s game time. So Moore College crew get your exam prep tweets on with this hashtag: #MooreExamFest. I figured the World Cup (pray for it) is on, lots of festivities, let’s make a festival of exam study!! (Probably the single most [...]
While on the subject of catechisms, Moore College has just launched its own student contributed and run theological magazine, The Catechist. It’s worth checking out.
Shout out to Stephen McGuiness for pulling everything together. Good job.
Lots of my posts lately have been written with younger punks in mind (ie Youth Ministry and KYCK posts). If you’re an older smarter punk, I haven’t forgotten you! This one goes out to you. Themelios is An International Journal for Pastors and Students of Theological and Religious Studies. If you kinda fit into [...]
It’s taken 6 days, but I’ve now recovered from all-you-can-eat at the Merrylands’ Men’s Fight Night last week! It seemed like a good idea at the time, but 10 different types of meat with next to no vegetables really wasn’t a brilliant idea. Excessive food consumption aside, partnering with Merrylands Anglican Church was a joy [...]
03.25Cross Cultural Fail
Realising that the man only spoke Arabic, plan B kicked into action. I reached for the green Arabic copy of Luke’s gospel. Proudly I held it up the right way. My cultural savviness was paying off; I know that this language reverses the reading direction. This is going well! Simultaneously he began closing the door [...]
We’ve sent a number of advance troops out to leaflet commuters at Merrylands Station each morning. If you’ve spent much time catching trains around Sydney City, you’ll realise that commuters are willing to read any trash you put in their hands. MX is the prime example. Trashy journalism at it’s best, or worst. Yet everyone [...]
I met my host family tonight. Lovely family. We spent about 4 hours chatting! Around midnight the family of 4 had dwindled down to 1. So it was just the father and me left. I was getting tired. But I didn’t want to be the one to break off the conversation. So in my head [...]
The street we door-knocked this afternoon had an unusually high number of people offering us to come in for a drink. It may have been the heat, or maybe that’s just how they roll. We thought it would have been rude to reject the kind invitations. So we enjoyed the hospitality in four local Merrylands’ [...]
Next week is Moore College mission. We’ve just set up a team blog that will have updates from each of the teams. Get the word out. Let me know if you want to write.
ALSO – if you’re a tweeter, use the hashtag #MooreMission when tweeting about mission. Follow all the MooreMission tweets here.
Check out the [...]
John Woodhouse isn’t a sexy preacher in the Justin Timberlake mould, his sexiness is more like Johnny Cash. Deep. Thoughtful. Dark hair. The glossy new Moore College website has recently been flooded with 704 John Woodhouse sermons! Sweet.
The only thing that would make them better would be a podcast feed. BUT when you’re mining for [...]
Whether you’re thinking of studying at Moore College, or just want to be encouraged by the work God is doing in the world through Moore College grads, all are welcome to attend the Moore College Graduation on Monday 15 March. Come and celebrate with the largest group of people graduating from the [...]
John Woodhouse kicked off the Moore College (make sure you check out the sexy new resource rich website) academic year with a solid exposition of John 15:1-17 on Monday afternoon chapel. I’ve recently reflected on this passage about Jesus as the True Vine.
On Monday I was particularly struck by verse 9, it’s breathtaking:
“As the Father [...]
As I type, Row is in the room next door in her final class for her Diploma of Biblical Studies. I reported this back in May – but she ended up doing an extra two subjects. This time she’s really finished. Props to Row for finishing! Proud husband.
Props also to Moore College. I think this [...]
Kinda. Well maybe not. It’s either Lady Jane Grey or Jane Seymour (King Henry VIII’s 3rd wife and the mother of King Edward VI). If you trace back in Rowena’s (David I’s only wife and the mother of Samuel I) family tree you’ll find that she is actually related to one of Lady Jane Grey [...]
Check out this post from May. It links to some great resources available via iTunes U. In particular there is a course on Reformation Church History – MP3’s and full manuscript.
If you happen to be studying for an exam for tomorrow they could be worth a look. To maximise your time, play them back at [...]
I’ve got an exam on 1 Corinthians on Monday. Here is a PDF of Ciampa & Rosner’s structure for 1 Corinthians (from a forthcoming commentary). It’s in the shape of a cross, not aiming to be tacky, just memorable. Hopefully some will find it helpful.
Not one of my class mates? Not really interested in the [...]
It’s exam time. Last year I wrote a stack of posts as part of my prep. This year, I’m not sure if you’ll see any blog posts (other than this one) or not! However, yesterday I tried a little experiment on twitter. Here’s where it started: Yo #MTC Moore college peeps. Tweet what ur studying [...]
This morning in MPJ’s Doctrine 2 class, we discussed the limitations of a number of popular illustrations for the explaining what happened at the cross of Jesus.
Here are 3 things I’ve been thinking since:
We often stumble when the illustration involves discussion involving a father giving up the life of his son. Parallels are quickly made [...]