Public Meeting Friday X

In recognition of Sunday being Trinity Sunday, this week's Public Meeting talk is Peter Jensen's 'This We Believe: The Trinity'. This was part of the EU's Book of the Year series in 2005 of talks on the EU's doctrinal statement. The 'This We' Believe' series was also part of the EU's 75th anniversary celebration.

The talk itself was great (although it did seem strangely familiar to anyone who has done Doctrine 1 in Moore's correspondence course). However, the recording is pretty dodgy...if you know of a way to fix it, please let me know.

Enjoy (if you have ears to endure):

This We Believe: The Trinity

Public Meeting Friday IX

Well, this is late, but there are still a few minutes of Friday left. The talks this week in PM Friday are some of the best talks ever given at EU. In three magisterial talks, Andrew Katay explores the key Christian characteristics (virtues?) of faith, hope and love. Enjoy:

These Things Remain: Faith

These Things Remain: Hope

These Things Remain: Love


"But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation." 1 Thessalonians 5.8, one of many New Testament verses that speak of faith, hope and love.

Public Meeting Friday VIII

This week for PM Friday, I won't be recommending any one particular PM talk. Instead, I want to let you know that you can sign up for all the great EU PM talks via podcasting here.

Go and check it out.

Public Meeting Friday VII

It's back - and only nine weeks into semester.

This week, hebel goes back to where it all began, in a sense.

Semester 2 of 2006, Andrew Katay gave 4 great talks on Ecclesiastes. these talks were really challenging, and so in-depth. It was beautiful.

It's also where I learned the word hebel ever existed.

1. Meaning Enough For Me: Ecclesiastes
2. Meaning Enough For Me: On Wisdom
3. Meaning Enough For Me: The Absurdity of Justice
4. Meaning Enough For Me

Public Meeting Friday VI

This week hebel brings you 2004's Phillip Jensen:

The Intolerant God - Arts Faculty Based Evangelism

With Christmas and CMS Summer School coming up - this will be the last PM Friday for the next month.

Public Meeting Friday V

The talks this Friday are vintage 2008. Ian Smith, Vice Principal and Academic Dean of the Presbyterian Theological Centre gave three talks of Abraham , the Father of Faiths (an attempt to tie in with WYD). Enjoy:

Abraham, Father of Faiths: The Lord Calls (Genesis 12-13)

Abraham, Father of Faiths: The Lord Justifies (Genesis 15)

Abraham, Father of Faiths: The Lord Provides (Genesis 22)

Public Meeting Friday IV

Continuing from last week, today's Public Meeting Friday are the three talks that finished of Think Weeks in the first semester of 2006. Are speakers are Andrew Katay (Christianity and Philosophy), Chris Forbes (Christianity and History) and Gordon Cheng (Christianity and Politics).

Christianity and Philosophy: Synthesis, Antitheses or...

Christianity and History: Does the Historical Jesus Have a Leg to Stand on? Complete with slides.

Christianity and Politics: Turning the World Up-side Down

The Katay and Chris Forbes talks are particularly good - some of my favourites.

Public Meeting Friday III

This week's Public Meeting Friday comes from 2006. I've selected two talks that were of a two week 'Opportunity Week' in Semester 1 - Think Week - in which the university campus was challenged to think about what Christianity had to say about Philosophy, History, Philosophy, Pluralism and Islam. It is the last two topics that I've picked for listening this week. John Dickson is the speaker, and both talks were given to around 250 students each. The audience for the Islam talk was made up of a large number of Muslim students, and the lecture theatre felt very tense to begin with - but John was very gracious in his representation of Islam, which, if anything, gave him an air of credibility.

So, without further adieu, here is Dr John Dickson:

• Christianity and Islam: Points of Agreement, Point of Tension
• Christianity and World Religions: Why Pluralism delivers Less Than it Promises
  

Public Meeting Friday II

Parables that Shock
Last week was the launch of Public Meeting Friday on hebel when I post up the link to old EU Public Meeting talks. We started of with Andrew Katay speaking on Colossians.

This week, let me take you back to the second semester of 2003, when the EU had just launched its third Public Meeting on Thursdays. Justin Moffatt is our guest speaker (he was around when PMs went from being once to twice a week) and he unpacks the parables from Matthew 13-20ish.

1. Parables That Shock: The Parables of the Soils
2. Parables That Shock: The Forgiveness-Forgetting Servant
3. Parables That Shock: Grace Before, During and After Lunch
   

Introducing Public Meeting Friday

So, it seems that everybody has a gimmick these days on their blog. Moffatt has Art on Friday, and Dead Flies has New Essays For Wednesday, Prayer Monday and the Blogging Fathers. In this spirit, therefore, Fridays on Hebel will now become Public Meeting Friday, when I post up the link to old EU Public Meeting talks (which are very close to my heart, being a previous PM Senior Student, and my wife being in her second term as the PM Senior Student).

To kick us off, let us tune in to some talks that were quite formative for me. This is Andrew Katay in 2005 at the end of Semester 2 giving five talks on Colossians - Living the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Living the Lordship of Jesus Christ: Receiving Christ as Lord

Living the Lordship of Jesus Christ: The Lord we Have received

Living the Lordship of Jesus Christ: Jesus Lord Over...

Living the Lordship of Jesus Christ: Living the Lordship of Jesus (1)

Living the Lordship of Jesus Christ: Living the Lordship of Jesus (2)