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Australian Church Record Winter 2020 Journal
Will FEE HELP changes make theological study out of reach?
The most recent changes to the tertiary education sector are no cause for alarm according to the Rev Dr David Hohne, academic dean of Moore College.
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In whom do we place our trust?
Loving Beirut
The television pictures of the devastating blast which levelled the port area of Beirut has brought home to Australians the dire emergency faced by the people of Lebanon.
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Singing together when we can’t sing together
But what do we do when a pandemic cuts us off from one another? How can we sing when one of these purposes – singing to one another – is taken away from us? What is the place of singing in an online Christian community? These are the questions that music leaders all around the world have wrestled with and continue to, as the COVID-19 pandemic persists.
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Ministering from a distance: Paul’s ministry from prison
Paul wrote Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon from prison. He would doubtless have preferred to be with them in person (Phil 1:8), but as he was kept apart from them he ministered from where God had placed him as best as he could. We don’t get any sense that Paul felt his life was on hold: he continues to make the most of his daily circumstances (Col 4:3ff), preaching to the palace guards and all those around him (Eph 6:19; Phil 1:13), and sending out messengers with hand-written letters to the churches to encourage them and receive news for his own prayers and encouragement (Eph 6:22; Phil 2:18; Col 4:7-9).
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