A Time to Gather is a bestseller.
OC Books in Dunedin have added A Time to Gather to their bestsellers list and it’s selling fast. Buy now for $9.95.
Visit www.ocbooks.co.nz or phone toll free within New Zealand 0800 886 226 to buy.
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In a few days time I’ll be participating in the funeral of a man I’ve never met.
Asian students have studied in New Zealand for the last fifty years. Asian immigration to New Zealand provides a backdrop for their arrival. The first European settlers arrived in New Zealand digging for proverbial gold in the form of a better lifestyle; the first Asian settlers, on the other hand, arrived digging for real gold, and later Asian settlers, for degrees. Six ‘arrival times’ define this Asian immigration. Against this backdrop, there are two ‘arrival times’ for Asian students.
The University Book Shop in Dunedin is now selling:
A Time to Gather: Christian Meditations for the Year. (CPL, 2005)
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“No Place Like Home Experience of South-East Asian International Students in NZ” (ISM, 2003) for $46.25
Contact details: University Book Shop, 378 Great King Street, Dunedin. Web: www.unibooks.co.nz Phone +64 3 477 6976 Fax +64 3 477 6571
Mass production by Roger Wilson (Review in NZ Listener July 15-21, 2006, Vol 204, No 3453)
Karl Jenkins’s “The Armed Manâ€, commissioned by the Royal Armouries to commemorate the millennium, is an extraordinary phenomenon, enormously popular in the UK and beyond (see DVD review, page 49). Played to often full houses, it has been a boon financially to large choirs and, on the strength of this performance, should give the Orpheus Choir great encouragement. Read more…
We are not alone. We are not strong. And we are not in it for ourselves. Hear how the writer of Hebrews puts it, in Chapters 11 and 12…
….Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours….
Read the full sermon at KBC_Sermon_2_July_2006.doc (Word 61.5KB)
An informed Christian theology of Creation has significant implications for how we see ourselves, humanity in general, and God. It moves beyond the mechanics of Creation (i.e. the argument of six literal days or six spans of time)Â to its implications. This essay suggests that there are four essential elements. However, two caveats are necessary at this juncture: there are other elements, which space does not permit a treatment of; and the distinction between these four elements is more arbitrary than actual. Read more…
To say that Christian theology is a process of “faith seeking understanding†may mean a number of approaches to considering faith, in the first instance and Christian theology, in the second instance. Space does not permit either an extensive or exhaustive travail of the territory from Abraham to Augustine and onwards. (Hays, for example, suggests that Abraham is the prototype of the community of faith, which interprets all human experience through trust in God’s word.) However, here, I seek to answer this question within three defining characteristics: faith asks questions, faith is never in isolation, and faith is dynamic.
Read the full essay here  Faith_Seeking_Understanding.doc (Word 40.5KB)
In Britain, there’s a new campaign to make history matter.
Appropriately then I have just spent the last few days celebrating the history of TSCF in New Zealand. This year TSCF turns seventy. Read more…
Here is some information and links, below, so you can find out more about the Lausanne Young Leaders’ Gathering that I’ll be attending in September 2006.
550 younger leaders from over 100 countries will gather for six days of Christ-centered leadership development — uniting their hearts and minds around Christ and His Great Commission.
