July 5, 2010

Thankful for the Geelong Bible Conference 2010

…it was great.

Ted Donnelly brought some hard hitting yet encouraging messages as he looked at the growing church in the Book of Acts. As well as meeting and having a photo taken with Ted Donnelly, I was also able to meet the armchair-political-commentator-extraordinaire Stephen McDonald. Stephen joined me tweeting most of the sessions using the #gbc2010 hash-tag. He also has leant me several volumes of The Confessional Presbyterian. The journal is beautifully produced (typeset) and I’ve begun to dig in already.

One attendee, Jeanne, has compiled the tweets and added some of her own. At the end of her post she makes an observation about me:

“I met him in real life at the conference. He was actually rather nice – and not really geekish at all!! Clever, but not geekish. Nice.”

Still not sure if that’s a compliment or not? ;-)

Well, I’m exhausted so I am off to bed. For those that like Twitter you may enjoy the new design over at Tweology (don’t forget to follow @tweology if you’re not already).

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June 15, 2010

Geelong Bible Conference – The Growing Church In The Book Of Acts

The Geelong Bible Conference is happening next month (July 2-4, 2010). The keynote speaker is none other than Edward (Ted) Donnelly, minister of Trinity Reformed Presbyterian Church and Principal of the Reformed Theological College, and he’ll be speaking on the topic The Growing Church In The Book Of Acts.

For more details download a brochure and be sure to register ASAP.

Donnelly’s ministry has been a tremendous blessing to me personally, and I look forward to meeting the man I’ve only ever heard on my iPod (you can fill your iPod here).

I hope I get to see many of my Aussie readers there!

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April 5, 2010

Preach the Word (Part 1 & 2)

Nick Batzig recommends Ted Donnelly’s  two messages from the Second Presbyterian Church’s Pastors and Seminary Students Conference. Donnelly’s message was entitled “Preach the Word” and you can download Part 1 and Part 2.

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November 12, 2009

Our Utter Inability to Reach Heaven

The human heart is deceitful above all else. If you ask the average person on the street they’ll likely tell you they’re on their way to Heaven. Below is an excerpt from a terrific sermon in a series on Heaven by Ted Donnelly where he succinctly responds to such a belief:

There’s an almost universal idea that we can deserve Heaven. That’s what people think. It’s right for them to go to Heaven. They’re worthy of going to Heaven. That’s what all other religions are based on. That is the hope of the man or woman on the street. My friends, one glimpse of Heaven; one millisecond of Heaven; would render any such notion absolutely preposterous. If we could see for a fraction of a second, the glory of Heaven, we would realise our utter incapacity, and unworthiness, and inability, of ever reaching or being present in that place. Sooner could a worm aspire to be a brain surgeon, than a sinner, hope to work their own passage to glory.

May we never lose sight of the glory of Heaven and the inexpressible grace of God in securing the way for sinners to be redeemed!

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November 4, 2009

Video: The Mystery of the Kingdom

For the Reformation Society of Pittsburgh conference held last month, Ted Donnelly gave a series of lectures on The Mystery of the Kingdom.

There are six videos in total that can be viewed here, or watch the first one below. Regrettably, I’ve not had the time to watch any of these.

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November 2, 2009

Communicating with Post Moderns

I was referred to two lectures today delivered by Ted Donnelly earlier this year at the Trinity Baptist Pastors’ Conference.  I’ve just listened to both lectures consecutively and have been immensely blessed.  Donnelly’s two lectures were entitled Communicating with Post Moderns and provide both a helpful survey of postmodern thinking as well as practical exhortation as to how the church should respond.  He not only warns against ignoring the culture we live in all together whilst at the same time he confronts the subtle compromises he sees within the church and the blatant error of those in the emergent church movement.

One of my favourite lines from his lectures was when he said:

“We reach people because we’re different from them…because when they come in there’s a sense of awe, and reverence, and the transcendence of God, and holy fear.”

You can listen to both lectures by following the links below:

Communicating with Post Moderns – Part 1

Communicating with Post Moderns – Part 2

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