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Spectacular Ordinary Disciples Slides

d.thayer — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:15:56 +0000

In October 2011, Rev. Viv Thomas made three presentations in Wales on how Christians can live as we are called to live in ordinary life. The Powerpoint slides from his talk are available here. Please also visit our podcasts page, where his talk is available in audio form.

Viv Thomas – Spectacular Ordinary Disciples

Slides from Get a Grip Cardiff

d.thayer — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:09:02 +0000

On 3 November 2011, CICC held its Get a Grip Conference, exploring the topic of teaching difficult passages of Scripture. Two of the talks included Powerpoint presentations, which are available for download here. Please also visit our podcasts page, where all of the talks are available in audio form.

Ruth Valerio – Is Salvation Red or Green?

Jonathan Stephen – Why Systematic Theology?

The Sufferings and the Glories – Book

paul.hocking — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:23:40 +0000

The sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow – a good description of the messianic prophecy in Isaiah’s fourth Servant Song.

Paul Hocking sets out the text of this song, based on the principles of Hebrew/biblical poetry, and then provides detailed commentary elucidating the richness of every single line in the song.

This commentary on the Sufferings and the Glories of the Messiah will be a blessing to all who read it, and will motivate you to worship ’God’s Righteous Servant’!

Download the pdf here.

(Please note, this is an unfinished manuscript as yet, and so the commentary is not quite completed and there is still editing and formatting to be done. However, it is largely completed and Paul would value feedback to help improve the final version – write to info@cicconline.org ).

Expert Evidence for Easter

paul.hocking — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:59:06 +0000

Three short videos by Tyndale House provide evidence for the central events of the Easter narrative: Jesus’ trial before Pilate, his crucifixion and his bodily resurrection.

Experts’ Evidence for Jesus’ Trial

Dr Dirk Jongkind, a Research Fellow at Tyndale House, pieces together the earliest manuscript evidence for the New Testament and shows how it tells the story of Jesus’ trial before Pilate.

Experts’ Evidence for Jesus’ Crucifixion

Dr Peter Williams and Dr David Instone Brewer look at the Munich Talmud, which contains traditional Jewish teaching, and discover how even the deleted text provides evidence for Jesus’ crucifixion.

Experts’ Evidence for Jesus’ Resurrection

Dr Peter Williams gives a summary of the biblical evidence for the heart of the Christian faith – Jesus’ bodily resurrection.

To go to the Tyndale House web site for these three short videos, click here.

Biblefresh Insights

paul.hocking — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:44:45 +0000

Developing a Hebrew-Biblical worldview, fresh skills in personal Bible study, and enjoying the inspired ‘woven’ nature of the literature – that is what this CICC Cafe on Biblefresh Insights is all about.

This page holds the papers used in the CICC Cafe.

Recognising that ‘the letter kills’ but believing that ‘the Spirit gives life’ (2 Cor 3.6), the Cafe provides a new window onto the spiritual, prophetic voice hidden in the scriptures.

The six sessions are entitled:

Glory to God – Speaking with tongues of angels! (Luke 2.14)
The Lord is my Shepherd – Poetic analysis of Psalm 23
Behold my Servant – Poetic analysis of Isaiah 53
How does God write? – The Concept of Woven Text
In the Beginning – An example of woven text
Our Father in heaven – Woven text in the New Testament

Session 1: Glory to God

Session 2: The Lord is my Shepherd

Session 3: Behold my Servant

Handout
Handout – Text
Leader’s Notes
Powerpoint Slides
Sufferings and Glories – Commentary on this Servant Song here

Session 4: How does God write?

Session 5: In the Beginning

Handout
Leader’s Notes
Powerpoint
Handout 2
Handout 3
The Structured Torah arranged by Moshe Kline here

Session 6: Our Father in Heaven

What’s Shaping Britain?

paul.hocking — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:37:20 +0000

Mark Greene addresses the question: What’s shaping Britain? His conclusion is that it is not the Church, nor even Governments, as it has been in previous centuries, but global Business. He sets out the three big ‘isms’ of business, that is, modernism, individualism and consumerism, and shows how the Gospel is the antidote to all three.

To purchase and download the audio, go to the Podcasts page, and click on ‘What’s wrong with Britain?’ or click here.

To download the powerpoint as a pdf, click here

Global Gender Issues

paul.hocking — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:23:06 +0000

Dr Elaine Storkey shows that a biblical understanding of human gender relations is more than about engaging with issues of church leadership or family life. Whilst these areas are important, she believes that the Bible alerts us to some deep-seated problems which are of global significance.

A Powerpoint Presentation used at Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham

(Some Photos are removed due to need for confidentiality)

Download file here

Church Growth Models

paul.hocking — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:49:30 +0000

Dr John Hayward has been facilitating a series of sessions at the CICC Cafe on Church Growth, in which church leaders have been grappling with issue of kingdom/church growth. We have brought our knowledge of the Bible and of churches in Wales, and tried to draft out various ‘models’ using computer simulation approaches.

The handouts for the sessions can be downloaded below:

Session one, May 2010: How to use System Dynamics to build a church growth model. An introduction to model building in System Dynamics. Notes in the form of: powerpoint presentation, or as PDF. (8MB files). Use slide show to get the best effect. Homework. System Dynamics Elements.

Session two, June 2010: Principles of church growth. the nature of church and its growth was discussed and written up for the July meeting: Summary 13/7/10. A model of issues raised by messy church was constructed.

Session three, July 2010: Issues in congregational growth. A review of issues that affect congregational growth were discussed following the guidelines: Issues to Consider.

Session four, September 2010: Three working sub-models. The meeting started with a presentation of 3 working sub-models: Discipleship in a modern conversionist church; Generationally sustainable church; and Contextual church. these are explained further on the Blog and on the September handout.