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Posted on December 11, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

The Incarnation

Featured Incarnational MP3 talks

In the build up to Christmas I thought I’d have a go at two sermons on the doctrine of the incarnation. In the first sermon I explored a little bit of just exactly what the incarnation is and why its so important, in the second sermon I looked at how the incarnation completely changes the way we live and turns our world upside down.

Incarnation: Part I

Incarnation: Part II

Posted on December 9, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

New Partnership Blog

Church Planting Featured

As many of you know we’re starting the whole church planting thing all over again come the beginning of 2010 as we join a team planting VOX City Church in the center of Cape Town. This is both an enormously exciting and enormously scary venture for Robin and I because we’re stepping out of some [...]

Posted on November 20, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

And can it be…

Charles Wesley Featured Gospel

And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain—
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Amazing love! How can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? – Charles Wesley 1738
I needed [...]

Posted on November 12, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

The Gospel Works

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This last Sunday morning I taught Colossians 1:1-8 at St Stephen’s Church in Claremont, Cape Town. I used Paul’s well-known triad of ‘faith, love & hope’ to explore a very real existential question that exists for many of us in the Christian faith, and that is: Does the Gospel really work?
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Posted on October 26, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

New York Trip: Part VIII

Acts 29 Darrin Patrick Featured Redeemer Church Planting Center The Journey Church

It’s all over (although my jet-lag isn’t quite yet)! We left the States on the 21st of October at around noon and arrived in Cape Town on the 23rd, around noon (local time). We’ve spent the weekend trying to get our internal clocks back on track.
The final week of the intensive went off well. We [...]

Posted on October 13, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

New York Trip: Part VII

Church Planting Featured

New York – Knoxville – New York. That’s been our movement over the weekend. On Friday morning at 3am we got up and flew out of Newark Airport to Knoxville, Tennessee. There we spent the weekend with folk from Cedar Springs Presbyterian. Most of the weekend was spent meeting people from the church and speaking [...]

Posted on October 8, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

Blogging Embarrassment

Blogging Featured Theology

So the blog has revived a bit with this trip to New York – I haven’t really written about much else lately. I do feel a little bit of reluctance in some ways to make this blog, as it stands, a priority. Not because I don’t think blogging is valuable and not because I’ve got [...]

Posted on October 7, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

New York Trip: Part VI

Acts 29 Church Planting Featured

Two Sundays have come and gone since I last updated you (ya – sorry about that – things have been crazy busy). A lot has happened and this post will turn into an essay if I give you all the details so I’ll pick out the highlights of the last 12 days or so.
From the [...]

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New Partnership Blog

As many of you know we’re starting the whole church planting thing all over again come the beginning of 2010 as we join a team planting VOX City Church in the center of Cape Town. This is both an enormously exciting and enormously scary venture for Robin and I because we’re stepping out of some [...]

Church Planting Featured

New York Trip: Part VII

New York – Knoxville – New York. That’s been our movement over the weekend. On Friday morning at 3am we got up and flew out of Newark Airport to Knoxville, Tennessee. There we spent the weekend with folk from Cedar Springs Presbyterian. Most of the weekend was spent meeting people from the church and speaking [...]

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New York Trip: Part VI

Two Sundays have come and gone since I last updated you (ya – sorry about that – things have been crazy busy). A lot has happened and this post will turn into an essay if I give you all the details so I’ll pick out the highlights of the last 12 days or so.
From the [...]

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New York Trip: Part V

So, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday update…
Tuesday we listened to some of the intensive guys give presentations about their future plants and then we watched Tim Keller’s address at last year’s Dwell Conference, entitled ‘Dwelling in the Gospel‘. After that we had a bit of fun planning a philosophy of ministry for a simulated occasion and [...]

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New York Trip: Part IV

I guess you can only appreciate Times Square (above) when you’re actually there. I think I’ve seen a hundred pictures or clips of the area but it’s quite something to see all the lit up advertising. So, yes, we were in Times Square this weekend, but let me back track a bit first…
On Friday we [...]

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