“Personally, I wouldn’t be game to use something that I know is inadequate” - Christian Author Tony Payne has watched through the latest Alpha materials.
Tony joins Dominic Steele in this BEST OF episode to work through the strengths and weaknesses of the Alpha Course.
One of the most respected voices in the Evangelical World, the senior minister of St Ebbes in Oxford, Vaughan Roberts, is calling on his own bishop and many of the leaders of the Church of England to repent and return to the Apostolic Christian Faith or failing that pursue a provincial level split.
It’s a reverse Pastor’s Heart as Craig Hamilton asks Dominic Steele a series of questions at the Hustle Leadership Conference.
How was Dominic Steele changed by those ten things that went wrong and mistakes he made in 2010
What does it look like for him to ‘fill up in his flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions’?
Ten things that went wrong, the mistakes he made, and the day he almost resigned.
Dominic Steele has just notched up twenty years as senior pastor of Village Church in Annandale, Sydney. But it hasn’t always been plain sailing.
Claims today that the global leader of the Anglican Church is out of step with God.
The Primates of the Global Anglican Fellowship (GAFCON), meeting in Kigali Rwanda, have said that Archbishop Justin Welby has,
‘Departed from the authentic exercise of his office by normalising and praising those who have departed from biblical teaching and practice…and giving equal place to practices contrary to biblical norms, as Anglicans have received them. We urge him to repent.’ (https://bit.ly/3DmPVas)
And the Archbishop of Canterbury’s explanations are described as disingenuous if not duplicitous.
The Gafcon Primates statement comes on top of the statement from the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches, which if anything, is even stronger.
The Global South Fellowship says,
‘Archbishop Welby’s first position is lamentable; his second is repugnant to our understanding of the authority and clarity of Holy Scripture. The notion of ‘pluriform’ truth is contrary to the Anglican Ordinal which binds duly consecrated bishops to be responsible for the guarding, teaching and imparting of divine truth in Holy Scripture.’ (https://bit.ly/3smoqas)
A hard look at confronting data with Raj Gupta as we face up to the ‘elephant in the room’ conversation that we need to be having.
Four leading Victorian Christian leaders on the controversy that has erupted in Australian National Politics - around the chair of the Victorian based City on a Hill church movement Andrew Thorburn, over his appointment as CEO of the Essendon Football Club and then almost immediate resignation.
Our guests: Neil Chambers, Senior Pastor, Bundoora Presbyterian Church; Stephanie Judd, Ministry Director, City on a Hill, Melbourne; Pete Sorrenson, Victorian team leader, Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students & Tim Grant, Pastor, Grace Christian Community Church.
‘Don’t be selfish. That’s the secret to being a husband’ says Al Stewart.
Marriage is a great opportunity for selfishness. But Al challenges husbands and fathers to use power for the good of others, especially our wives and children.
Australia has the world’s worst rate of gambling losses per capita, being home to less than half a percent of the world’s population but with 20 percent of its pokies,
Stu Cameron and Sandy Grant are Sydney City’s two leading ministers and they are asking the government to take action in a ‘united approach’ to avoid attacks by the pubs and clubs lobby.
(Episode photo courtesy Sydney Anglican Media)
What can we learn about funerals today from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, which was watched by around four billion people across the world yesterday.
What worked and didn’t work with the Queen’s funeral? Is there anything our guests would have done differently?
David Peterson is the former Principal of Oak Hill Theological College in London and is now lecturing as an adjunct faculty member at Sydney’s Moore Theological College.
Rachel Ciano lecturers in Christian History at Sydney Missionary and Bible College.
Chris Braga is Senior Pastor of Grace West Anglican Church at Glenmore Park in Sydney’s West.
The new GAFCON Anglican Diocese of the Southern Cross has a second congregation.
The continued move of the Anglican Diocese of South East Queensland away from orthodox Anglican Theology has led to the resignation of another senior minister.
The Australian Anglican Church has been in a perilous position since the majority of the Australian house of bishops failed to affirm orthodox biblical teaching on marriage at the General Synod earlier this year.
At St John’s Wishardt in South Brisbane yesterday, Rector Peter Judge Mears, told the congregation he had given Archbishop Phillip Aspinal his resignation.
One man dominated gospel advocacy in the latter part of the twentieth century Sydney.
John Chapman was director of Evangelism for the Sydney Anglican Church, and played a significant role in shaping attitudes to preaching, evangelism and a series of controversies.
Baden Stace’s new work showcases the impact of John Chapman, but also gives a window into issues facing evangelicals in Sydney in the later part of the twentieth century, controversies about preaching, the place of evangelism in church life, social justice, and what role each of us plays in the evangelistic process.
Baden Stace is the senior minister of St Stephen’s Normanhurst.
How can we as church leaders develop and implement plans to care for people affected by disability - so that they can hear the gospel clearly and engage in Christian fellowship.
What are the theological foundations for disability ministry?
How do we in our hearts/attitudes welcome or distance those with disability?
Gafcon Australia Chair Richard Condie says the crisis in the Australian Church has been caused by revisionist Bishops who have rejected traditional Biblical and Anglican doctrine.
Gafcon has formed an Anglican lifeboat for faithful Christians, the ‘Diocese of the Southern Cross’ announced at the big GAFCON Australasia Conference, this week in Canberra.
Guests on this week’s The Pastor’s Heart:
Richard Condie, Bishop of Tasmania and Chair of Gafcon Australia
Glenn Davies, Bishop of the new Anglican Southern Cross Diocese and Former Archbishop of Sydney
Foley Beach, Primate of the Anglican Church in North America, and Chair of the Gafcon Primate’s Council
Jennifer Hercott, Member of Gafcon Australia Board and registrar of the Diocese of Central Queensland
There are now two expressions of Anglicanism in Australia.
Southern Cross Anglican Church opened in Beenleigh in Brisbane on Sunday. The new Southern Cross Anglican Diocese has been created. And Former Sydney Archbishop Glenn Davies will be the diocese’ first bishop.
