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The first in our series "Portraits of Jesus". From the Gospel of John, Ian talks about Jesus the good shepherd.
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In my first talk I argued that evangelicalism has every right to be regarded as authentically Anglican. But there is another question equally as pressing for many. Should evangelicals stay in the Anglican church? We may have a legitimate place within it from the point of view of history, but does contemporary Anglicanism, in practice and in ideology, so compromise the gospel that it is impossible to stay?
30/01/2003
The Gospel & Mission of Anglican Evangelicalism - Anglican Evangelical Conferences : UK January 2003
Neil Armstrong’s voyage to the moon was not as difficult, or dangerous, or desperate as that made by the first settlers in the Antipodes. As both guardians and villains made their way to the mysterious south, they could never have imagined that they were going to contribute to the birth of two famous, largely Christian nations. How significant, then, that the very first Christian sermon preached in Australia was delivered by an Evangelical clergyman of the Church of England, named Richard Johnson, and that the very first Christian sermon preached in New Zealand was delivered by an Evangelical clergyman of the Church of England, named Samuel Marsden.
30/01/2003
As planning for mission takes place, prayer and obedience to God’s word must continue to be our top priorities.
23/01/2003
What sort of world do you believe in? Do you have the sadness of inhabiting a world where no really new thing may happen, where no great miracle can occur, where there is nothing but the inexorable law of cause and effect? Do you console yourself with your grim philosophy by saying that it is at least real, and not fairy story? Do you pride yourself at looking reality straight in the face and saying that stories of Santa and Jesus and in the end the same, that there is no other reality, that we are deluding ourselves to think that there is? Do you smile at Mary’s story of a virginal conception and quote he words of Mandy Rice Davies: ‘well she would say that wouldn’t she?’
26/12/2002
In tonight’s consecration of Ivan Lee as a bishop, we do not rob him of one ministry in order to give him another. He remains what he now is: a servant and a presbyter in the church of God. If titles matter, he could scarcely be given a more elevated rank or a more heavy responsibility than the one he has already exercised. He must continue to fulfil that ministry of word and sacrament which he undertook 21 years ago in 1981.
23/12/2002
Christmas is often presented as a picture of happiness – with Australians enjoying their family, friends and the best this country has to offer. But it’s a two-dimensional picture. More image than reality. Behind the scenes there are plenty of people who hate Christmas or find it difficult – and for good reason.
19/12/2002
What are the factors behind the increasing irregular church-attendance of committed Christians?
06/12/2002
We live in a society which appears to have lost its nerve. It no longer believes in its own identity. It refuses to acknowledge how much it owes to the Christian faith. The loss is going to be a desperate one.
How else can we explain the puzzling tendency to deliberately cut Christ out of Christmas. We hear of nativity scenes being banned from shopping malls, of schools becoming hesitant about carol singing, of the growth of the ugly euphemism 'festive season' to hide the fact that it is the birth of Jesus Christ which has caused the festivity in the first place.
30/11/2002
Sermon at the Commissioning of Rev Narelle Jarrett and the women’s Ministry Team at St Andrew’s Cathedral (15th November 2002)
19/11/2002
In a significant decision, parish representatives overwhelmingly endorsed the Mission. The decision will only be historic if we act.
13/11/2002
The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, has expressed his disappointment at the passing of the Research on Human Embryos Bill through the lower house of Federal Parliament.
28/10/2002
Statement from the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen on the announcement of the 104th Archbishop
Archbishop Rowan Williams, Primate of Wales, is to be the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. This is an historic and preeminent role in the leadership and life of the worldwide Anglican Communion which makes many demands upon the incumbent in the office.
28/10/2002
Address to the Sydney Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast 2002 held in the Rydges Wentworth Hotel, Sydney on Friday 28th June, 2002. Societies, clubs, federations, associations, congregations, co-operatives, unions, families, - these are some of the best things about Australia. Our citizens getting together in voluntary societies provide the sinews of our nation. A government frightened of its legitimacy or bent on evil loathes voluntary societies. It tries to suborn and regulate the clubs and groups and even to disband them. In the ancient world, the state was even frightened of dining clubs and work clubs and funeral associations. In the end, the state becomes the only society, and its power the focal point of worship.
10/07/2002
Archbishop Jensen's statement on a fundamental decision as it went before Parliament.
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