If you’re in Perth, I invite you to join me for six Monday evenings to enrich our understanding of Jesus.
Cost: free, but please register for Advance in Faith 102: Jesus Liberator and King.
Format: Lecture, coffee break, discussion groups
Where: Riverview Church, 1 Thorogood St, Burswood, Western Australia
When: 7:00 – 9:00 pm each Monday 7 May – 18 June 2018 (except the public holiday 4 June).
Topics:
- 7 May — Why was Jesus always on about the kingdom of God?
- 14 May — Why did Jesus call himself as the son of man?
- 21 May — What did Jesus teach?
- 28 May — If Jesus was king, was Jerusalem his capital?
- 11 June — How did the king free his people?
- 18 June — What is the king doing in the world today?
Notes will be available on-line each week before the session.
Contact me if there’s anything else you’d like to know.
What others are saying
Tom Wright, Simply Christian (London: SPCK, 2006), 79:
Christianity is all about the belief that the living God, in fulfilment of his promises and as the climax of the story of Israel, has accomplished all this — the finding, the saving, the giving of new life — in Jesus. He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once for all. A great door has swung open in the cosmos which can never again be shut. It is the door to the prison where we have been kept chained up. We are offered freedom: freedom to experience God’s rescue for ourselves, to go through the open door and explore the new world to which we now have access. In particular, we are all invited—summoned, actually—to discover, through following Jesus, that this new world is indeed a place of justice, spirituality, relationship and beauty, and that we are not only to enjoy it as such but to work at bringing it to birth on earth as in heaven. In listening to Jesus, we discover whose voice it is that has echoed around the hearts and minds of the human race all along.
Seeking the kingdom 