May 2008
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Don't miss your last opportunity to register for our 2008 Preaching the Bible today Conference! only $50 per day (includes morning & afternoon tea)
Our bi-annual preaching conferences seek to equip and enthuse Christian men and women engaged in preaching and teaching. Why not plan to invite... (Read more)
Derek TIDBALL & Ben WITHERINGTON III
Thursday,
22nd May 7.30pm 
at the Tinsley Institute
(formerly CEGM)
120 Herring Rd, Macquarie Park 02 9878 0201
Mary returned to Australia in late 2005 after ministering overseas for 28 years. During those years she developed programs which sent Christians in to 24 “Closed” countries. (Read more)
Special Public
Forum - OPEN TO ALL
Wednesday 14th May 7.30pm at Morling
College
“What Happened on
the Cross? The Atonement Debate” with Derek
Tidball 
Come along to Morling’s Special Public Forum on Wednesday, May 14 at 7:30 to hear Derek Tidball speak about the atonement debate and address the question: “What happened on the Cross?”
In recent years, a central doctrine of Evangelical faith has created heated controversy across Europe, in Australia and around the world. This controversy has split Evangelicals and created strong discord among teachers and evangelists who are otherwise in complete agreement about the truth of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
The controversy emerged as claims began to be aired of penal substitution no longer being a valid framework for understanding what happened on the cross. Indeed, penal substitution has been accused of being more than just archaic. It has been called violent, morally dubious, and even “cosmic child abuse” of the Son by the Father. Some Evangelical thinkers have heard these arguments as an attack on the non-negotiable centre of evangelical theology, and a rejection of the only truly Biblical way of understanding the death of Christ.
Derek Tidball was already a leading Evangelical teacher on the atonement, and was the author of The Message of the Cross in the Bible Speaks Today series, before this controversy began to rage among the faculty and students at London School of Theology where he was principal until last year. Derek called for a symposium on the issue, allowing all views to be clearly presented. Papers from the symposium have now been published by Zondervan as the book, The Atonement Debate. As general editor of this book, Derek is arguably the leading expert on this issue internationally, and we are very privileged to have the opportunity to hear him address the debate and also speak more generally about what happened on the cross. While Derek has led the church in listening graciously to those with whom he disagrees, he speaks with clarity, intelligence and strength in defence of penal substitution.
Don’t miss this opportunity to bring along everyone in your church who is keen to think clearly and Biblically about the cross of Jesus.
Thursday, 19th June 2008
6.30pm at Morling College
An introductory presentation will commence at 6.45pm
Don’t miss this opportunity to receive an introduction to courses, to take a tour of
our facilities and to speak with faculty
Being the
mission leader your church needs
with Stephen Hinks Monday
4th August 08; 9am-4pm How do local
churches navigate their changing social context, and decide what must
change to become genuinely missional? (Read more)
Principal Speaks out about Selling ‘spare’ Kidneys
Ross Clifford, as President of the Baptist Union of Australia, has responded in the media to calls for the sale of kidneys.
The proposal by a senior Canberra nephrologist for young, healthy people to sell their kidneys to the Federal Government is ethically flawed, says Dr Ross Clifford, President of the Baptist Union of Australia.
“At a time of mortgage stress and increases in the cost of living and education, legalising the sale of ‘spare’ organs would lead some disadvantaged Australians to consider short term financial benefits through organ sales, but at an enormous long term cost,” he said.
It was for good reason that the practice of selling human organs was illegal in every country and considered unethical by transplant experts around the world.
There is a black market trade in human organs and tissue, but such trade is wrong because it disadvantages the poor and vulnerable among us, and privileges those able to travel and pay exorbitant rates to procure better quality of life at the expense of others, Dr Clifford said.
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