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Morning Seminars
Preaching: Growing in Skill to Unpack the
Whole Counsel of God.
(For Christian workers and & lay preachers who want to learn to
preach with a biblical world view that is subsumed under the
‘whole of Scriptures’.)
Synopsis:
This seminar reviews some of the fundamentals of good expository
preaching, but focuses primary attention on the way such
preaching ought to tap into the meta-themes that tie the entire
Bible together. When preachers accomplish this, they are not
only teaching God's people to know God's Word better, they are
painting a life-transforming worldview - a way of looking at the
world that centers around Christ and his gospel, a worldview
that is mandated by Scripture itself. As a test case, we will
focus special attention on Ezekiel.
Dates:
29-31 July 2008
(Tuesday to Thursday)
Time:
9.00 am to 12.00 noon
Venue:
St Andrew’s Cathedral
(Next to City Hall MRT)
About the Speaker
Donald A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
In 1989 Carson was voted Faculty of the Year at Trinity.
Carson received the Doctor of Philosophy in New Testament
from Cambridge University.
Carson's areas of expertise include biblical theology, the
historical Jesus, postmodernism, pluralism, Johannine and
Pauline theology. He can read about a dozen languages, and
is fluent in French. Carson has written or edited over 45
books; The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
(1996) won the 1997 Evangelical Christian Publishers
Association Gold Medallion Award in the category "theology
and doctrine."
Carson is an active guest lecturer in academic and church
settings around the world. Carson and his wife, Joy, reside
in Libertyville, Illinois. They have two children. In his
spare time, Carson enjoys reading, hiking, and woodworking.
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Public Evening
Sessions
Before the End: The Conquering Lamb, the
Suffering Church & the Clash of Powers (Studies from the book of
Revelation).
(For all who want to hear the powerful & relevant message of the
book of Revelation for the people of God today.)
Synopsis:
Is the world becoming a better place or is it getting worse? How
should the church understand itself as it seeks to be faithful
amidst the swirling currents of competing cultures, of nations
and empires in conflict? Deploying the evocative imagery of
apocalyptic symbolism, John the Prophet helps Christians in
every generation to construct a frame of reference that is
horrified by evil but never surprised by it, that cherishes the
power of the gospel even while learning to live under the cross.
Dates:
29-31 July 2008
(Tuesday to Thursday)
Time:
7.45 – 9.45 pm
Venue:
St Andrew’s Cathedral
(Next to City Hall MRT)
29 July (Tuesday)
Rage, Rage, Against the Church
(Revelation 12:1-13:1)
In apocalyptic language, John tells us what we learn elsewhere
in the New Testament: the Christian's most fundamental enemies
are not other people, but the powers of darkness. How then shall
we cope and triumph?
30 July (Wednesday)
Antichrist and False Prophet
(Revelation 13:1-18)
Some Christians around the world face brutal opposition and
outright persecution; other Christians around the world are in
danger of being seduced by false teaching and transient glitter.
The dangers are different, yet they are one. How are we to
respond?
31 July (Thursday)
Trajectories
(Revelation 14)
There is a perennial danger of thinking that Christian life and
thought pertain primarily to this world. But the whole of the
New Testament is against this reductionism: there is a heaven to
be gained and a hell to be shunned. These opposed trajectories
mean that everything in this life has far more significance than
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