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From the Bishop's blog

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Here are some recent posts...

• Why Pray? – #1
• Lenten sincerity or ’spin’?
• ‘Tasmanian Anglican’ – February
• Prayer Pilgrimage – working draft
• POWR: Exploring possibility of friendship
• World Vision reports on 2009
• Opposing assisted suicide –‘religious’ push?
• Facebook, Facebook, on the wall
• Gum leaves poison water?
• Lent: Tiger Woods and Mary MacKillop
• Lent is about God not iPods
• Clergy: God’s call?
• God’s Valentine

Bible Study & Preaching Material

Stressed out with no time to write bible studies? Try ‘Growing Disciples of Jesus’, our new Lectionary-based study outlines for home and church-based study groups and personal study; will also help preachers. To have a look, click here: http://www.anglicantas.org.au/lec_based_study/

Preaching Resources

This resource is provided to help guide, encourage and resource the preachers in our diocese, be they new or experienced. It’s new and evolving, so we recommend that you drop in from time to time.

A PRAYER FOR transformingLIFE

Transforming God,
as we meet together
fill us with your wisdom.
Give us the capacity
to work boldly
and with humility,
embracing the challenge of mission.

Use us to bring transforming life
to our Christian communities and
all Tasmanians

Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

Download the transformingLIFE document

Will the Imagine Project change your life?

CMS: This study is a gift

While Andrew & Pam Lake visited over 24 parishes in the Diocese before heading to the posting in Damascus, Andrew had been busy on another project. He has released this short book called Christian Mission for Tasmanians. This is a very personal approach from Andrew on this important topic of Mission written for the Missionary Diocese of Tasmania. Andrew says of the book,

"My hope and prayer is that this study will help put mission front and centre of the church’s agenda. I make no claim to infallibility and will have achieved my aim if this has helped start some fruitful conversations about mission."

We offer our thanks to Andrew, having served in the Diocese as an Archdeacon and Mission Support Officer. But now we offer our thanks for this impressive gift to the church in Tasmania.

Of particular interest to you, dear reader, is the freely available nature of this book. In fact, you can click here to read it right now. So is it free? Andrew explains in his Forward:

"This study is a gift to the Tasmanian church. It is freely available on the diocesan website but I invite you when you use it for personal or group study to make a donation of $10 per person to the Church Missionary Society of Tasmania."

Have you heard of Kiddliwinks?

A healthy church...transforming life

Diocesan Preaching Web Page - Update now complete!

[wed 10.mar.10 rob] Earlier today our entire preaching webpage was updated. If you have been keeping an eye on these pages in 2010 you will notice that all pages have been refreshed this year, witht he final pages being loaded onto the website today. These pages are a worthy read for anyone who preaches and particularly for those still learning the craft (do we ever stop learning?) and those who would like to offer those they are training a resource. It is a treasure-trove of ideas.

Our thanks to David Roger-Smith for the wealth of knowledge he has brought to our Diocese through this resource. May his Parish of Riverlinks continue to be blessed by his ministry as we have.

We can all access this Diocesan resource. The easiest link is found on the right-hand-side of this home page.
Alternatively, you can click on this link: Diocesan Preaching Page... you might like to bookmark it once you have it!

Lent: Acappella - Criminal On The Cross

[fri 05.mar.10 rob] Are you thinking about Easter? Are you thinking about what God has done for you? Are you thinking about how GRACIOUS his gift to you was in sending Jesus? Would you like to be reminded of God's grace? This video is by a group called 'Acappella'. The video captures a little of how privileged we are to be bearers of the precious gift of forgiveness that our saviour Jesus Christ offers to anyone who would receive it.

If you find this encouraging, and would like to be introduced to Jesus, why not read the eyewitness account of Jesus for yourself in the Gospel of Mark? Click here to read it now.

Lent: Tiger Woods and Mary MacKillop

[tue 23.feb.10 rob] Bishop John has been reflecting on Lent. Yesterday, he wrote about Tiger Woods and his apology, and Mary MacKillop.

To find this and more of the Bishop's comments, go to his blog by clicking here.

Collision! The Movie

[tue 23.feb.10 rob] On the 13th March, St George's Anglican Church in Battery Point will be holding the first public screening of Collision, an American documentary about a series of debates between commentator Christopher Hitchens and pastor Douglas Wilson.

The screenings are held in partnership with the University Fellowship of Christians and made possible by a Vision100 grant. The film offers a fantastic evangelistic opportunity, where Christianity and Atheism are clearly and passionately debated in a balanced and entertaining format. The timing of this screening is also provocative, weeks before Easter and the middle of a global Atheism convention being held this March in Melbourne.

For more information about the film itself check out the Collision website, to find out about pastor Doug Wilson, check out his blog and for Christopher Hitchens check out some of his recent books.

St George's have bought a license to screen the film publicly, which comes with free use of promotional images, so feel free to use the above image in any way to publicize the event.

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AnglicanTas frontpage editor: Rob Stanley