Make Disciples
Make Disciples Matthew 28:16-20 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came...
View ArticleChristmas – Myth or History?
Christmas – Myth or History? You cannot but be impressed with the zeal of the modern sceptic and reciprocally unimpressed with the lethargy of the contemporary Christian. Right on track the Sydney...
View ArticlePaul and Mission in a Pluralistic World
Paul and Mission in a Pluralistic World The Pluralistic Environments of the Old and New Testament. During the 1950s the Student Christian Movement series Studies in Biblical Theology published texts...
View ArticleSix Keys to Unlock Revelation
Six Keys to Unlock Revelation Struggle for acceptance From early times Revelation has been accepted as written by John the apostles and as part of the canon of the Bible. But it has struggled for...
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Luke 2:2 and the ‘first enrolment’
There is a well known problem in Luke 2:2, usually translated as, ‘This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria’. The problem is that Luke locates the birth of Jesus ‘in the days...
View Article350th Anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer
In 1660 the monarchy was restored in England, ending the decade or so rule under Cromwell’s ‘commonwealth’. That decade witnessed the rise of Puritan and Presbyterian influence. But in 1662 the Act...
View ArticleModernity
Modernity Twice in the Bible we read of God ‘dwelling with us’. The first looks back in time when ‘the word became flesh and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14) and the second looks ahead when ‘God will dwell...
View ArticleLuke’s Acts as a Historical Source for Paul
The Acts of the Apostles is critical to historians for establishing (a) the connection between Jesus and earliest Christianity, and (b) a chronology of the life of Paul and its relationship with his...
View ArticleEpiphany – Five Reflections from a Life Time
Epiphany (Mere Anglicanism Conference, Charleston SC, January 2013) I count it a great privilege to share these thoughts with my fellow-Anglican Christians. Like the apostle Paul I do so with ‘fear...
View ArticleA New New Testament (March 2013)
A New New Testament (2013) Hal Taussig and a team of eighteen scholars and religious leaders have chosen ten texts (out of sixty seven surveyed) to be published alongside the twenty-seven that comprise...
View ArticleWhy I am Still A Christian
Why I am still a Christian It was a long time ago. I had become dissatisfied with my life’s direction and that of the friends in my social circle. In my early twenties I began to attend a church and...
View ArticleConstantine R. Campbell Paul and Union with Christ. An Exegetical and...
This is probably the most important biblical thematic study by an Australian since Leon Morris’s Apostolic Preaching of the Cross published in 1955. Dr Campbell has already established an...
View ArticleThe Cross-Shaped Bronze Serpent at Mount Nebo, Jordan
To stand at Mt Nebo looking across the Jordan Valley to Jericho is a great experience. There across the river is the Promised Land that typologically symbolizes the Kingdom of God, the hope of the...
View ArticleJesus’ Improbable Plan
Jesus and the apostles expected the nations of the world to be won for him. This is a historical statement that is historically true that will stand in the face of even the most stringent, critical...
View ArticleWhy Follow Jesus?
At the end of the rather amazing narrative in John 6 Jesus asks the twelve remaining disciples, ‘Do you want to go away as well?’ Context The context was...
View ArticleA Reformation Tour
A Reformation Tour, September 2014 Some friends asked me to lead a tour to sites of the Reformation. I agreed but with misgivings. It was years since I had studied the Reformation and many of the...
View Article‘Paul lived in Rome two whole years’. The Mysterious Ending of Luke-Acts
‘Paul lived in Rome two whole years’. The Mysterious Ending of Luke-Acts Non-specialist readers, as well as academics, are baffled by Luke’s final glimpse of his hero, Paul, in Rome. We know from...
View ArticleDebt Slavery and Redemption
A fine article by Haznain Kazim in the Australian Financial Review (‘A Tale of Deliverance’, 9 January 2015) states that 35.8 million worldwide live under debt slavery. It gives an example about how it...
View ArticleScience Turns to God
Eric Metaxas’ ‘Science turns to God’ article in The Australian (29 December, 2014) provoked a spate of hostile letters and the newspaper’s editorial comment. In brief, the article contrasted what we...
View ArticleProfessor Edwin Judge: A Book Launch
Book Launch E.A. Judge, Engaging Rome and Jerusalem, (ed. S. Piggin; North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014). In 1966 E.A. Judge, Reader in History at the University of Sydney had a...
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