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Thorvald Lorenzen: Resurrection, Discipleship, Justice
Thorvald Lorenzen’s Resurrection, Discipleship, Justice: Affirming the Resurrection of Jesus Today (2003) Dr Thorvald Lorenzen is an Australian Baptist pastor-theologian, who was born and spent his childhood in Germany. He did his initial pastoral training (we were contemporaries) at Morling College (then known as the Baptist Theological College of NSW) in the 1960s, and taught […]
A Consistent Biblical Approach to (homo)sexuality
Dr. Keith Dyer (Professor of New Testament, Whitley College, University of Melbourne) Placing Bible and homosexuality together in the one sentence always provokes questions. Some questioners are genuinely puzzled, some are angry: Why do we continue to ask what the Bible says about homosexuality when the few verses that do seem to refer to it […]
Stress/burnout Inventory For Pastors
STRESS/BURNOUT INVENTORY FOR PASTORS/LEADERS TICK ONE BOX 1 = YES/SERIOUS/BAD –> 5 = NO/NOT AT ALL/NOT EVER/OK ~~~~ BACKGROUND/FAMILY OF ORIGIN/UNDERLYING FACTORS 1. My family of origin was dysfunctional 1. [ ] 2. [ ] 3. [ ] 4. [ ] 5. [ ] 2. My mother was […]
Megachurches: Some Personal Reflections
Please attack, critique, tear apart where necessary. I have been deliberately provocative at some places – who, me? – and would like feedback. ~~~ By Rowland Croucher I was told that at some point in the 1970s we at Blackburn Baptist Church (Melbourne) were one of three ‘Megachurch Congregations’ in Australia. The other two were […]
Where Have All The Prophets Gone?
Here’s the gist of Marvin McMickle’s Where Have All The Prophets Gone? Reclaiming Prophetic Preaching in America, 2006. It’s black writing-as-preaching at its most passionate, biblically enlightened, and intelligent (he has a couple of earned Drs). When (American) preaching isn’t prophetic you won’t hear anything about the two million persons packed into overcrowded prisons, most […]
Sydney Anglicans
I have mixed feelings about Sydney Anglicans. They belong to the largest evangelical Anglican diocese on the planet, and one of the two wealthiest. When I served as a Staffworker/evangelist with the InterVarsity Fellowship (later The Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students – AFES) for three years (1968-70) I often spoke at their churches and youth […]
Preaching
Christianity is par excellence the religion of the Word. When we speak, we disclose ourselves: so does God. God has spoken in various ways – nature, history, conscience, prophets and ultimately in his Son (Hebrews 1:1,2). Jesus Christ IS God’s word to us. God also speaks through the written word, the Bible. And the word […]
Enriching Our Marriage
We do ourselves a big favour by loving our spouse/partner The most important modeling we do for our children is to love their parent/our partner Marriage is hard work (see http://jmm.org.au/articles/16187.htm ) and doesn’t become more fulfilling by accident or through the passing of time alone. The basic idea of this inventory is that each […]
Acupuncture – a Christian assessment
Andrew Fergusson is the General Secretary of Christian Medical Fellowship UK. (CMF). He has spoken, written and broadcasted extensively about alternative medicine throughout the 1990s. These views are his own. Most Nucleus readers will have come across acupuncture. Perhaps a consultant anaesthetist was using it occasionally in a pain clinic you sat in on, and there […]
Pharisees Ancient and Modern
Being an itinerant (‘hit-run’) preacher has some advantages. I remember a Sunday evening service in a conservative church in rural Victoria, Australia. They had big black Bibles and severe expressions… And they knew their Bibles, and were proud of that. It was a smallish group, so I decided to engage them in dialogue: ‘Who knows […]
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