Reverend Stephen Anderson from Focus on the Gospel has qualifications and experience both as a pastor and an educator.
He shares a paper to help preachers be better preachers.....Attention and Retention which is available here
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Weekly Sermon Notes from Focus on the Gospel
Focus on the Gospel was founded in 2010, with the purpose of proclaiming the Gospel; the Good News of the forgiveness of sins that comes with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, and to help pastors, teachers and others to make that proclamation in a better, more interesting and innovative way.
Their web site offers weekly sermon notes
Their web site offers weekly sermon notes
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Lutheran Australian Lectionary for MS Outlook Calendar
Lutheran Australian Lectionary with Bible Readings for MS Outlook Calendar
Download File here
Instructions
Download File here
Instructions
- Download the file to your computer.
- Save the file to your computer.
- Open Outlook.
- Select File, then Open, then Import.
- In the import dialog box select select 'Import from another program or file.
- Click next.
- Select comma separated values (windows).
- Click next.
- Browse for the file where you saved it.
- Select 'Allow duplicates with items to be imported'
- Click next.
- Select 'Calendar' as the destination folder.
- Click next.
- Click finish.
- On your next synchronization the files will be available on your mobile device.
- For Outlook on iPhone you will sync your iPhone through iTunes and update your Outlook as usual.
Augsburg Fortress latest resources
5 of the latest resources from Augsburg Fortress publishing
Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications by Daniel Finn
What does the history of Christian views of economic life mean for economic life in the twenty-first century? Here Daniel Finn reviews the insights provided by a large number of texts, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century. Relying on both social science and theology, Finn then turns to the implications of this history for economic life today. Throughout, the book invites the reader to engage the sources and to develop an answer to the volume's basic question.
The Mission Table: Renewing Congregation and Community by Stephen Bouman
In a time of declining mainline Protestant church attendance, Bouman reminds us that the Holy Spirit is still very much at work. It is the mission of our churches to aid God's reconciling and restoring action in the world. This conversation on mission must involve everyone including laypeople, pastors, seminarians, and emerging congregational leaders. Each chapter contains scripture, questions, and activities, allowing for group study, reflection, and action. The goal is ultimately to help every member of the church to live as signs of the God who made the world and who will make all things new.
Chapters are:
Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications by Daniel Finn
What does the history of Christian views of economic life mean for economic life in the twenty-first century? Here Daniel Finn reviews the insights provided by a large number of texts, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century. Relying on both social science and theology, Finn then turns to the implications of this history for economic life today. Throughout, the book invites the reader to engage the sources and to develop an answer to the volume's basic question.
The Mission Table: Renewing Congregation and Community by Stephen Bouman
In a time of declining mainline Protestant church attendance, Bouman reminds us that the Holy Spirit is still very much at work. It is the mission of our churches to aid God's reconciling and restoring action in the world. This conversation on mission must involve everyone including laypeople, pastors, seminarians, and emerging congregational leaders. Each chapter contains scripture, questions, and activities, allowing for group study, reflection, and action. The goal is ultimately to help every member of the church to live as signs of the God who made the world and who will make all things new.
Chapters are:
- Table of Creation
- From the kitchen table to the alter table
- Seeking hospitality at new tables
- The Congregation: a table for mission
- Mission Table Leadership
- Setting Mission Tables
- Restoring the Broken Tables
Anatomy of the New Testament 7th edition by Spivey, Smith and Black
This broadly adopted textbook weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testament’s structure and meaning. Anatomy of the New Testament is systematic, critical, and reliable in its scope and content.
This seventh edition has been revised throughout, to take account of current trends in scholarship and to discuss important interpretative issues, such as the Gospel of Thomas. Each chapter includes two new features:
• Have You Learned It? offering questions for analysis and synthesis
• What Do They Mean? presenting definitions of key terms to enhance student comprehension and critical thinking
The text is augmented by numerous sidebars to stimulate discussion of matters “Behind,” “Within,” and “Beyond the New Testament.”
Other new features include:
• a more readable two-column format
• fresh, up-to-date maps
• nearly 100 new images and illustrations in black and white and color
• new charts and diagrams that facilitate deeper learning
• thoroughly updated bibliographies
After more than a decade in youth ministry, Michael Novelli felt like he'd tried everything to connect his students to the Bible. Then a missionary introduced him to the art of Bible storying—an imaginative way to engage in the scriptures through storytelling, creative reflection, and dialogue. He soon discovered that Bible storying was not only an effective teaching approach, but a powerful way to awaken people to new purpose and identity rooted in the biblical narrative.
In 2012, Michael partnered with sparkhouse to create Echo the Story curriculum, based on his approach to Bible storying. Michael has seen people of all ages benefit from this imaginative way of encountering God through the Bible.
In this book, you'll find methods for adapting Bible storying for varied contexts and ages, testimonials from people using this approach, tools to create your own Bible storying narratives, and details about the proven learning theories guiding this approach.
Our brains are hard-wired to experience the emotion of fear. Yet "do not be afraid" is a common refrain from the Bible, used for both comfort and chastening. Too often, we have treated fear, an emotion that helps protect us from threats, as something simply to be dismissed, ignored, or suppressed. Being afraid means so much more than simply fighting or running from a threat; to be afraid is to remember that something in life is worth living for. In fact, there may even be circumstances where fear is God's best response to what we are experiencing. In this book, Whitehead helps us find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of a culture of fear.
Sections include:
- Why Fear? Why NOW?
- What does it mean to be afraid?
- Pastoral theology of fear and hope
- Responding to our fears
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Australia Church Resources latest resources
5 of Australia Church Resources latest resources
2014 Australian Christian Diary
The Australian Christian Diary is published especially with Christian laypeople and the Church Worker in mind.
Clean quality white paper for easy writing
Durable vinyl cover (insert for holding notes & cards etc)
Bible reading suggestion for each day
3 year lectionary bible readings
Church Year Festivals
Australian holidays & school terms
Week to an opening
3 year calendar
Pocket size approx. 9cm x 16cm
Christianity and the Competition DVD
With Dr Paul Maier
The world horizon is littered with competing religions and philosophies. Which has it right? In our multiculturage age, should we insist on the TRUTH of Christianity? Dr. Maier looks at sacred sources (Biblical documents that are reliable and essentially unchanged over time) and secular sources. A look at Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confusianism, Shinto, Tao, Judaism, Baha'i, Islam, etc.) and also Western religions (Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Scientology, etc.) in comparison to Christianity.
Loved! Devotions for Teens by Teens
What does it mean to be loved?
How can God love us enough to give up His own Son for us?
In Loved! teen authors share how great a love God has for His people. Each of the 34 devotions is followed by a short prayer, and scattered throughout are inspirational Bible verses that speak of God’s great love for us.
Time Out With Jesus
Australian devotions for a year
This book provides simple Christian devotions, by Australian writers, for each day of the calendar year.
Each meditation, edited by David Strelan, is a 'time-out' of about 3 minutes plus your own scripture reading time, and consists of a Bible reading, some thoughts on that passage, and a short prayer.
The devotion writers' thoughts are life-related and centred on the message of God's love for people shown in Jesus Christ.
The devotions can be used for individuals, families and groups. As you read and meditate on these words the Holy Spirit will enable you to be ... with Jesus.
What They Need To Hear
By Klemet I Preus
Maybe above all else, we want our family members and friends to rejoice with us in God as our Savior. Yet, those closest to us often present us with the greatest challenges for our witness.
This inspirational book is a collection of Rev. Preus’s letters to Lloyd. It is a captivating, real-life story of how one man returned to faith through the witness of his son-in-law. Written over a period of almost two years, Rev. Preus’s letters to Lloyd contain devotional and doctrinal insight, and offer personal anecdotes and practical advice to help readers who are struggling to reach out to friends or family members who have questions about Christianity.
Book features:
• 90 letters
• Evangelism principles
• Topical index
• Two tear-out inspirational postcards
• Free eCard site http://cph.org/t-topic-whattheyneed.aspx
Share the Gospel message with someone you know through an inspirational eCard today!
I know that I will see Lloyd again someday. When Christ comes in His glory, we will both bow before this throne. We will both eat with joy the fruit from the tree of life, which is our Lord.
—Excerpt from What They Need to Hear by Klement I. Preus
2014 Australian Christian Diary
The Australian Christian Diary is published especially with Christian laypeople and the Church Worker in mind.
Clean quality white paper for easy writing
Durable vinyl cover (insert for holding notes & cards etc)
Bible reading suggestion for each day
3 year lectionary bible readings
Church Year Festivals
Australian holidays & school terms
Week to an opening
3 year calendar
Pocket size approx. 9cm x 16cm
Christianity and the Competition DVD
With Dr Paul Maier
The world horizon is littered with competing religions and philosophies. Which has it right? In our multiculturage age, should we insist on the TRUTH of Christianity? Dr. Maier looks at sacred sources (Biblical documents that are reliable and essentially unchanged over time) and secular sources. A look at Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confusianism, Shinto, Tao, Judaism, Baha'i, Islam, etc.) and also Western religions (Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Scientology, etc.) in comparison to Christianity.
Loved! Devotions for Teens by Teens
What does it mean to be loved?
How can God love us enough to give up His own Son for us?
In Loved! teen authors share how great a love God has for His people. Each of the 34 devotions is followed by a short prayer, and scattered throughout are inspirational Bible verses that speak of God’s great love for us.
Time Out With Jesus
Australian devotions for a year
This book provides simple Christian devotions, by Australian writers, for each day of the calendar year.
Each meditation, edited by David Strelan, is a 'time-out' of about 3 minutes plus your own scripture reading time, and consists of a Bible reading, some thoughts on that passage, and a short prayer.
The devotion writers' thoughts are life-related and centred on the message of God's love for people shown in Jesus Christ.
The devotions can be used for individuals, families and groups. As you read and meditate on these words the Holy Spirit will enable you to be ... with Jesus.
What They Need To Hear
By Klemet I Preus
Maybe above all else, we want our family members and friends to rejoice with us in God as our Savior. Yet, those closest to us often present us with the greatest challenges for our witness.
This inspirational book is a collection of Rev. Preus’s letters to Lloyd. It is a captivating, real-life story of how one man returned to faith through the witness of his son-in-law. Written over a period of almost two years, Rev. Preus’s letters to Lloyd contain devotional and doctrinal insight, and offer personal anecdotes and practical advice to help readers who are struggling to reach out to friends or family members who have questions about Christianity.
Book features:
• 90 letters
• Evangelism principles
• Topical index
• Two tear-out inspirational postcards
• Free eCard site http://cph.org/t-topic-whattheyneed.aspx
Share the Gospel message with someone you know through an inspirational eCard today!
I know that I will see Lloyd again someday. When Christ comes in His glory, we will both bow before this throne. We will both eat with joy the fruit from the tree of life, which is our Lord.
—Excerpt from What They Need to Hear by Klement I. Preus
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