Article and Audio Downloads

The following is a collection of articles from our teaching staff and audio downloads from events we have hosted.

Articles

Teaching Staff
Allan Chapple
Faithfulness
"His sovereign power underwrites his faithfulness, guaranteeing that all of his promises will be kept and all of his purposes will be fulfilled."
What is our job?
A New Testament understanding of leadership in the local church - transcript of session from Ministry Matters Day 2006.
Suffering
"For the Christian, the key to coping with suffering - indeed, the key to life, the universe, and everything - is found in an execution that took place near Jerusalem two millennia ago."
 
Marty Foord
It's not me but we
"Surely if I value others above me I'm destined for a life of miserable bondage? Ironically this is not so."
Forgiven Forgivers
"The cross shows us, like nothing else, how unbounded and infinite is God's love for sinners like you and me."
 
Tony Nichols
Which Bible?
"The version used in church should allow the Bible to speak in its own terms to the mind and conscience of the hearers."
Translating the Bible
PhD Thesis 1996
 
      Visiting Lecturers      
Listen! - Jim Crawley
"If listening has such a central place in our relationship with God, does it also have a place in our relationship with the people around us..."
 
Actions speak louder than words - Stephen Rarig
"If we grasped the extent of our neighbour's need and the enormity of God's cost to forgive, it would bowl us over."
 
Reaching out in love - Kanishka Raffel
"It is the Christian's encounter with Jesus in his gospel that is the well-spring of our acts of love and service."
 
Aims and means - Tim Thorburn
"It is critical that we get the aim of ministry right. If we mistakenly think it is bigger numbers attending or people feeling happy, we'll work out ways of achieving it...but we won't have achieved God's purposes."

Audio

Faculty  
Authentic Spirituality (177MB)  
2005 Annual Lecture - Allan Chapple  
   
Guest Speakers  
Effective preaching to post-moderns - 2 Corinthians 10 (18MB) Ministry as we really are - 2 Corinthians 11-13 (21MB)
Ministry Matters - Bruce Winter Ministry Matters - Bruce Winter, Queensland Theological College
Essential commitment in ministry/Passing on the baton How to make the most of your Bible
Ministry Matters - Peter Adam/Tim Thorburn 2007 Annual Lecture - Peter Adam, Ridley Theological College