Address by Rod Benson to a meeting of Encore, Morling College, Sydney 7 September 2012 The world today faces a global refugee crisis with up to 40 million displaced people, the majority of whom are women and children. Australia currently accepts around 13,750 refugees each year as part of total planned annual immigration of around 182,000 …
The significance of Jesus for faith and ethics
I've been re-reading Glen H. Stassen et al, Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996), a critical analysis of H. Richard Niebuhr's 1951 book, Christ and Culture, and came across this insight into the significance of the life and teachings of Jesus: In a beautiful climactic passage [writes Stassen, …
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Take a long view
Sermon preached by Rev Dr Ken Manley at the induction of Rev Keith Jobberns as National Ministries Director, Australian Baptist Ministries, Melbourne, 22 May 2012 1 Corinthians 3: 1-17 Introduction To share in Keith’s induction is a pleasure and an honour. In any case, who could say ‘No’ to our smiling new National Ministries Director? …
Benefits of Bible reading
Christians have always known the benefits of reading and meditating on verses from the Bible. Now research conducted by the U.S.-based Center for Bible Engagement has shown daily Bible reading to be the single most powerful predictor of spiritual growth. Key findings of the global survey of more than 100,000 people indicate that if a …
Cooperation and cobelligerence between NSW Baptists and other faith communities
A paper presented by Rod Benson to an ICOBS/ABRF Conference on the theme "Interfaces: Baptists and others," Whitley College, Melbourne, 17 July 2009. ------------------- At the beginning of their discussion of Christian responses to other faiths in Modern Christian Thought, James C. Livingston and Francis Schüssler Fiorenza observe that [s]cholars who study modernity appear to …
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