Indulging in some extra internet this week to Skype friends and fam (if you want to catch up with me this way, just let me know and we can sort out a time) I stumbled across this. I don’t really know why, but this sort of visual snapshots of life appeal to me…maybe i’ll work on doing something similar to have a slightly different way of chronicling V-land?

Okay, so I’m giving some talks at a weekend away for senior high kids in a week and a half with the topic being an introduction to eschatology (using 1 and 2 Peter as a launchpad). I’ve decided to split my four talks up under the following titles:

• Living Hope: Establishing the framework of Biblical hope as a major factor in Christian life
• Living People: This introduces the overarching theme of us following in Christ’s footsteps, specifically in a bodily resurrection
• Living World: Reinforces the continuity/discontinuity idea and the physicality of our future within an introduction to the wider doctrine of creation (blame ETC 07 for that!!)
• Living Faith: This is a somewhat more Puritan talk – mainly drawing wider applications from what we’ve spoken about and from 1 and 2 Peter exegetically

So that’s the outline…

I’ve written the first talk and am reasonably happy with it, but it’s this second talk that has been giving me trouble. The big point I draw out for our thinking/lives today is that Jesus’ and our resurrection has implications for our moral and ethical framework…I’m told there is a big phat theological book on this, but there is no way I’ll be able to read and process that by the time I’m giving these talks…so I’m appealing to the bloggers out there to a) let me know if I’m on a reasonable track with this and b) if my reasoning that “there is a moral order built into creation and in Christ’s res. this creation is restored and hence the moral order is too” is correct or if I’ve missed something in my thinking…

Let me know :-p

J

I’ve always found it interesting how Sydney evangelicals are taught to be world-class exegetes, but often seem to have little to no understanding or training in how to communicate effectively. Coming from a public-speaking and debating background, I’ve often thought that we could do more in teaching people (and not just clergy!) in how to use their voice to complement the material (be that sermon, kids talk, or Bible reading) they are presenting. That’s why I found this to be a novel addition to the Sydney Anglican’s mp3 library. I haven’t listened to it quite yet because I’m at uni, but it looks like a step in the right direction.

J