So I’ve spent the week at Oxygen 2014 sitting under, and publicly engaging, the preaching of men like Don Carson, Francis Chan, John Lennox, Paul Tripp, and Bryan Chapell. But what about separation? What about contending for the faith? Doesn’t the fact that some of these men hold to […]
KCC’s Oxygen is becoming, it seems to me, Australia’s premiere evangelical event. This week 1,500+ Christian leaders have gathered in Sydney to rally around the gospel of Jesus Christ. The dominant majority of the preaching and teaching has been contentful, theologically sound, gospel-saturated, and passionately felt. If you’re looking for […]
Here are some observations from my time here at Oxygen 2014 so far. Concerns First, there is a danger that, in trying to bring people together from a broad spectrum of Christian circles, we can so dilute the content of our combined fellowship as to make it tepid. For […]
I wanted to share one more post about my experience at KCC’s One Love Women’s Conference last Saturday. Though all three sessions were amazing, Bryan Chapell’s touched me the most. His topic was “Just Mary: An Expression of Christ’s Love for the Vulnerable” from Colossians 3. He started out addressing […]
I’m in Sydney at the Australian Technology Park today and I’m excited to be covering Oxygen 2014 live from today until Thursday (It’s not too late to register by the way). To follow our live twitter stream, follow our twitter account @teaminfocus! We’ll be tweeting throughout the day there. My […]
Nancy Guthrie just spoke at One Love women’s convention here today, helping us understand how to respond to God’s amazing love. From John 21 where Jesus asked Peter three times “Do you love me?” we see Jesus graciously offering forgiveness for the three times Peter denied him. Words can’t be […]
Isn’t God so awesome how he does that… when what someone presents from his word is just meant personally for each lady in the convention centre today?! Personally for all of them, even though they are each in a different stage of life with different needs! That’s what happened in […]
The Independent Baptist’s largest annual convention has been taking place this week in Brisbane. I’m really glad to see that it’s being live streamed. I almost went this year but my budget and schedule conspired to strangle the life out of that idea. But I wanted to share a few […]
Last weekend I attended a training seminar on church music, provided through a local Bible institute. Over fifty people attended from various independent churches, including a couple from Melbourne. The topics included the Bible’s emphases on music in the church, musicianship, audio/visual/technical support, and leading church music for congregation, choir, […]
On Sunday, a friend and I went to visit Hillsong church in Norwest. I’m no advocate for Hillsong but there were some interesting things I learned while observing in their evening service that I feel that we could glean from. One thing I observed was the amount of organisation that […]
