A while ago I wrote about Seamus and Rachel Macdonald who are working hard for the Lord in Mongolia. …he and Rachel have decided to get into theological education with Pioneers – specifically Mongolian. And to get the best results in learning the language you have to go native. So they did. Which means a few months ago [...]
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from GAFCON, pdf available here October 29, 2012 The day we give special thanks for James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885 My dear people of God: Grace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The Primates’ Council has just concluded its October 2012 meeting in [...]
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We currently have visitors staying; some very good Australian friends who have come back from 3 years in England. I asked them what they enjoyed most about being there and one thing mentioned was the British self-deprecating humour. It’s hard to find any other culture that has the same element. There is something very British [...]
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Right-oh, this is how we’re going to make it through Friday. I’m setting up a playlist of songs that have the names of cities in their title. Here’s three to start us off. Falco – Vienna Calling Sinatra – New York Dionne Warwick – Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Your job, add [...]
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Doug Wilson was recently speaking at Indiana University, setting forward a Christian view of sexual ethics. As he reports, there was an attempt made to shout him out of the place. Here’s the video. That’s a great observation at the end, Diversity has 2 fundamental tenets, as far as I’ve been able to glean from [...]
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Looking forward to giving a talk next week at Sydney City Bible Forum (CBF) on answering the New Atheists (the topic is “Answering Dawkins”) and, in particular, on some alternate responses to what was discussed on last Monday’s Q&A show here in Australia. One of the nice things that CBF are doing is video trailers. Here’s [...]
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We had a great Good Friday service at St Augustine’s this morning. I’ll get the audio of my talks up a little later, but for now here’s the music that we had – at least here’s some perfect versions performed fabulously. and during communion, this:
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Some great typology from Tim Keller. Love me that typology h/t Mez McConnell via Vicar’s Wife image Jeff Patterson
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