The India Gospel League are committed to seeing church planters around India be trained in the bible.

A unique link between this Indian organisation and evangelical Christians around Australia has formed. Through this partnership, Aussies head to India and teach Moore College correspondence courses to the pastors who can not afford to be trained in a formal setting in India.

Over two weeks we’ll be teaching different courses (Old Testament 1 and Ephesians) in two towns, training around 100 church planters and evangelists.

We’d love your support – both in prayer and financially!

If you would like to receive prayer updates from this team please send an email to following email address… enjoyji {at} hotmail(.)com (please note updates in India will be dependant on internet access).

BSB= 650 000  (Newcastle Permanent)

We need to raise a total of $13,175 for the trip.

The first $4400 of this is to cover registration and accommodation for the pastors attending the conferences – about $55 per pastor. The remainder is to cover in-country costs for the team – $75 per team member per day. (Team members have to pay their own travel expenses and incidental costs.)

The thermometer shows where we are up to so far.

The talks from WinterCon are available in the talk archive!

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At long last!

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Just beware the files are fairly big so if bandwidth is an issue for you it’d probably be better to download them rather than stream them.

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But they’ll work either way….

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You can find them here

http://www.newcastlechristianstudents.org/bible-talks/?series=30

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Enjoy

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photo credit: Photo Extremist

In the lead up to NTE, you may have a spare hour here or there. Why not listen to some classic NTE talks? A great way to bolster your joy in Christ! You’ll find them all recorded on the AFES website here:

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Talks by Date, Scripture or Preacher

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I’m listening to Leon Morris preaching on ‘unity’ from Ephesians (NTE 1979!), and it’s funny that not all that much changes. He still punches home that we’re saved by grace, that Jesus has destroyed all barriers of separation, and he even has a stab at the average hygiene levels of the male members of the audience…

So I noticed a link to this article on facebook this morning. As many of us are just about to head off for a wonderful week of In Christ, I thought I’d share it with you.

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http://www.afes.org.au/article/nte-5-things-pack

photo credit: SuperFantastic

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Give up a coffee a week and support the training of the next generation of gospel workers.

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For more information click here.

Here’s an article I found on the AFES website about how to make the most of the week.

In short, prepare, pray, share, serve and ask!


Looking forward to seeing you there!

^{photo credit: Alex E. Proimos}

⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 2:4-5

 Sometimes it seems like I can’t do anything right. I can’t find the words to write an assignment, my room looks like a bomb exploded in it and I turn up to class only to discover that I should be at a group meeting in the library.

On days like this I need more than a bag of minties to encourage me to keep going - I need parts of the Bible like this one.

As I read through Ephesians 2 I find that I’m dead in transgression, that I’m separated from God because of my sinful nature (Great, yet another thing to add to the list!). But then I come to the verses above and everything begins to look up.

For it’s in these verses that we see that, although we were dead in transgressions, God still loved us. It is because of this great love  for us that God sent Jesus to the cross to die and take the punishment for sin. Then, as Christ was raised again, we were also able to be raised with him and made alive again.

So when everything seems to be turning out for the worst I can always find comfort knowing that I’m not saved by my own ability to do anything right but rather it is by this amazing act of grace that I have been saved.

What is more satisfying: only doing the few things that you can do perfectly all of the time? Or living with the knowledge that while failure is imminent, God’s grace has been displayed on the cross for your salvation?

Collision is a fantastic documentary following a tour of debates between evangelical pastor Doug Wilson and prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens, as they argue the topic “Is Christianity Good For The World?” NCS and A3 (The Atheist Society) are hosting a screening which will be followed by lively discussion, and you’re invited to come and engage!

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7pm Monday Week 6 (August 29)

SRLT2

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see http://www.collisionmovie.com/ for more information on the movie

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This week at the Bible talks we’re returning to a series Rod and I began last Semester.

This week we’ll be looking at Galatians 3:26-4:7, You are All Sons of God!
But who is that talking to? What does it mean? And How could it even happen?
Come along on at 12 noon on Tuesday (ES204) or Thursday (V07) to find out