Preaching can be daunting. Sometimes it feels like you've bitten off more than you can chew when you've agreed or been assigned to preach.
Category: College contemplations
Highlights of 2016
2016 has been a year unlike any other for many of us. We've been richly blessed by the quality guest speakers who visited BST this year like Darrell Bock, Tom Schreiner, Christopher Wright, Andrew Shead and Michael Jensen.
How can we be sure God loves us?
So why is it that God’s love for us often seems to be something we know better in our minds than in our hearts? Is there something to be learned from my experience with Jackson? At first the answer would appear to be an unequivocal no. If my children feel...
3 reasons why cross-cultural mission is hard
What started out as short trips turned into me spending more than four years serving in Cambodia. The burden to go was placed heavily on my heart. I didn’t go with a mission organisation which meant that the member care support that many agencies offer was not available to me....
Writing tips for students
Writing assignments can be scary, confusing and frustrating. Even more so if it's been a while since you've had to write an essay. You're not alone in this as many struggle with written work. It could be that English is your second language and writing in English doesn't come as...
The need for training
BST lecturers are committed to God's call to mission, including Dr Alan Stanley. While he's a full-time lecturer at BST, Alan also travels to Asia with goEast during his breaks, training up the next generation of gospel workers in places like India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Here's a recent blog...
Mysterious yet knowable
Earlier in the year (semester one) I relished the opportunity to study the Gospels more deeply. Our New Testament class took on a hermeneutic of love and devotion to the pages as we discussed the context and historical background...
Fleeing to God
What is the one thing in your life at the moment that you know God wants you to do but you are not doing it? Where you are holding back? Resisting? Or even being plain disobedient?
City of onions – postcard from Jerusalem
Israel doesn’t often top Australian tourist destination lists. Its history is plagued with conflict and controversy; its territories disputed for millennia. But if you can get past the perilous media and rumours of war, it is a place that will both surprise and reward the intrepid soul. What I discovered...