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Get a Grip 1 (Free!)

d.thayer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:41:01 +0000

Ruth Valerio, A Rocha, delivers a talk titled Is Salvation Red or Green?

Listen to this talk from Get a Grip, a conference to help church ministers and Bible teachers in every context to understand better and to teach confidently, the more controversial passages of the Bible. The conference was held in Cardiff on 3 November 2011.

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Get a Grip 2

d.thayer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:37:51 +0000

Alan Hewitt, Senior Pastor of Hope Community Church, Newtown, speaks on Biblical Narrative.

Get a Grip 2: Biblical Narrative

By Alan Hewitt

Get a Grip 3 (Free!)

d.thayer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:21:15 +0000

Jonathan Stephen, Principal of Wales Evangelical School of Theology, answers the question, “Why Systematic Theology?”

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Get a Grip 4

d.thayer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:51:01 +0000

Ruth Valerio of A Rocha speaks on the topic Letting the Word Dwell Richly.

Get a Grip 4: Letting the Word Dwell Richly

By Ruth Valerio

Spectacular Ordinary Disciples

d.thayer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:47:40 +0000

Speaker: Rev Dr. Viv Thomas of St. Paul’s, Hammersmith.

Originally presented at the Cardiff session of Spectacular Ordinary Disciples, 13 October 2011.

In a culture where people are struggling with boredom, meaninglessness and excess, how can Christians experience full, vivid and rich life? Celebrity, money, buying stuff or extra holidays will not do it. Rather, scripture offers us another way to live, a way that is both spectacular and ordinary. To be fully alive and able to shape our world, this is the life we are called to live. So, what is the Spectacular Ordinary Life and how does it work?

The Powerpoint slides from his talk are available here.

Spectacular Ordinary Disciples

By Rev Dr. Viv Thomas of St. Paul’s, Hammersmith.

Engaging Our Culture

d.thayer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:33:52 +0000

Rev. Dr. Joel Edwards sets out four ‘new competences’ needed by Christians in this generation, in order to present the Good News credibly for a 21st Century world. He shows that, based on the Apostle Peter’s call to the first century Christians, to argue about world views and ‘big ideas’ is very Christian, as we need to be ‘ready always to give a reason of the hope within us, with gentleness and respect’. And Joel graphically emphasised that we must not do this by diatribe but by dialogue, becoming ‘ordinary prophets’ in our generation and community.

Engaging our Culture Podcast, Rev Dr Joel Edwards

By Rev. Dr. Joel Edwards

What’s Shaping Britain?

d.thayer — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:55:17 +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.

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The related powerpoint is downloadable from the Articles page here.

What's Shaping Britain?

By Mark Greene.

A Christian Response to Climate Change

d.thayer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:40:15 +0000

John Weaver’s lecture from CICC’s spring 2010 series, The Climate Change Crisis: What Should We Believe?, addresses the theology of a Christian response to climate change.

John Weaver is chairman of the directors of the John Ray Initiative – Connecting Environment, Science, and Christianity.

He was formerly principal of South Wales Baptist College. He has taught theology at Oxford and Cardiff universities and served as a pastor. He also has a PhD in Geology and was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Derby. He received a Templeton Award for his work in Science and Christianity at Oxford in 1998.

A Christian Response to Climate Change

By John Weaver
Lecture with Powerpoint presentation, provided as a video download (mp4 format). The file is 75MB – not suitable for slow internet connections.

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MLC-Sam — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:55:18 +0000

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CICC Cafe – Biblefresh Insights II

paul.hocking — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:13:33 +0000

By popular demand, this CICC Cafe is returning for a second series – Biblefresh Insights II – Beyond Chapter and Verse.

Are you interested in discovering fresh skills to understand the Bible for yourself? Have you heard a little about the Hebrew / Biblical worldview, and would like to delve into it in a bit more depth? Would you love to be energised by the inspired literature of the Bible, and to discover how God has woven the text to entwine the linear truth and a prophetic revelation? Have you experienced that ‘the letter kills’ but believe that ‘the Spirit gives life’? (2 Cor 3.6)

Well, this CICC Cafe is for you!

The Cafe will be run for 6 sessions, on six alternate Sunday evenings, in the style of an interactive workshop. Participants should leave each week with a sense of excitement over having personally engaged deeply in the text of scripture.

The six sessions will focus on the Beginning – the very first chapter of the Bible, on Creation itself.

Paul Hocking, who works for CICC and the Evangelical Alliance, will facilitate the sessions. Paul has been studying and teaching the scriptures for over 40 years, with a particular love for the Hebrew scriptures, and has been studying the Torah with a devote Jewish academic for the last three years.

The sessions will be held in the beautiful Grade II listed building, The Gate Arts Centre, in the centre of Cardiff. You can arrive any time from 7.30pm for free tea/coffee, or to purchase a drink from the bar, and to socialise with others, before getting down to action at 8.15pm.

Please register for the Cafe dates by selecting the date and quantity below. CICC proposes a nominal £5 for each Cafe session, which includes coffee/tea, to help cover costs. Other drinks can be purchased at the Bar.

Once you have selected the date(s) and quantity, you can then move on to register for other events or Cafes, or to purchase resources, from elsewhere on the site, or to move directly to checkout, by selecting the ‘Go to Checkout’ button in the ‘Shopping Cart’ section at top right.

(NB. CICC policy is for events to be accessible to all. If, for some reason, you are unable to afford the price of any event, but would want to attend, please email us at info@cicconline.org.uk , and we will register you manually).