Three audacious claims of Jesus

A short address to Moore Theological College staff by Dr Rod Benson, 3 June 2024. Today, my brief is to talk for five minutes about the unity of the Godhead, the nature of salvation, and the certainty of eschatological judgment. See John 5:15-24 (CSB). As a child of church-going parents, I attended Sunday School where …

A passion for reading the Bible

A sermon by Rod Benson What makes us who we are? What distinctive passions and practices shape our identity as Christians who are known as Baptists? I donโ€™t mean โ€œdistinctivesโ€ in the sense of what marks us out as weird, peculiar or crack-pots in the minds of others. Itโ€™s not about coming up with a …

Jesus or the Bible

Several years ago, around the time when he was President of the Baptist Union of Australia, I recall the Revd Tim Costello writing an opinion piece in response to an article by one of the leading Sydney Anglican heavyweights published in The Sydney Morning Herald. ย I canโ€™t recall the issue on which they disagreed, but …