Cathedral Cross Training

New Testament 1 explores God’s purposes in sending Jesus Christ. This course looks at the first three Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), particularly Mark.

There’s only one way to find out how enriching this course can be – give it a go!  Enroll (see below)!

Whether you know your Bible well, or you have not got a clue, then this course will be helpful. New Testament 1 will consider some techniques and methods for analyzing and studying the Gospels (and indeed the Bible as a whole). Knowing how to approach the Bible will allow the student to understand the Bible for themselves.

NEW TESTAMENT 1 – The Programme

 Starts:           Wednesday 1^st September                   

Time:            6:15-7.30pm

Venue:          Level 2 Mission to Seafarers  (see below)      

1. Wed 1^st Sept – The Gospels: the gospel written down.
2. Wed 8^th Sept – The coming of the king.
3. Wed 15^th Sept – The kingdom of God
4. Wed 22^nd Sept – The victory of the kingdom.
5. Wed 13^th Oct – The king of the kingdom.
6. Wed 20^th Oct – The reception of the king.
7. Wed 27^th Oct – What it means for Jesus to be king.
8. Wed 3^rd Nov – What it means to follow the king.
9. Wed 10^th Nov – The last week of the king.
10. Wed 17^th Nov – The king is dead: long live the king.
11. Wed 24^th Nov – Exam (optional) – 6-9pm at the Seafarers

 Where:

Level 2 Mission to Seafarers; 320 Sussex Street. From the Cathedral down Bathurst Street (toward Darling Harbour), left down Sussex Street and left into the Mission to Seafarers. Parking is available in St Andrew’s House Car Park, behind the Cathedral in Kent St (charges apply).

For further details, email kendnoakes@sydney.anglican.asn.au

We run bible studies on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

Tuesday nights in the Chapter House
6.30pm for dinner ($5 per night)
7.15-8.45pm group time
8.45-9.30pm supper

We’ll have 5 groups at CBF this year:
Daniel W and Leanne V
Mike T with James and Tish
Grahame O and Mandy
Paul and Ruth
Jeremy

Simply Christianity will continue to run regularly on a Tuesday night with Mike and Mandy.

City home groups
Tuesday night from 7-9pm
Ness and Emma (women only)

Wednesday night from 7-9pm
Andrew and Rachel

Suburban home hroups
We have 3 other groups that meet in homes around the suburbs:
Eastside – Ben and Emma in Kensington and Nathan and Justine in Coogee
Southside – James and Johanna in Mortdale

For all enquiries, please contact mike@citynightchurch.com

The latest edition of Cathedral Cross Traning begins Wednesday 14 July for 6 weeks.

7:00-7:45: Discussion with Phillip Jensen with Question and Answer session
7:45-9:00: Strand Time.  Options include: Prayer, Bible Overview, Personal Follow up.

Anyone from the Cathedral or wider Sydney is welcome to attend. 

For further details, please contact Mike by phone  9265 1673 or email – mike@citynightchurch.com

Come and hear this week: Why we want to support something bigger than ourselves.

To get yourself thinking about the issues, it would be good to watch this video. The video is not about capitalism, but it’s about materialism, but when Capitalism is coupled with philosophical materialism (as presented in the video), there are major problems.

FYI: John Lewis is a department chain store like Myer and David Jones.

What does the department store think life is made up of? Why does bright light feature prominently in most of the scenes?

I don’t want to focus too much on the content – the obvious points about the commodification of modern life, how we effectively live even the most personal, private experiences via the medium of large capitalist corporations etc. But rather on the form.

Firstly, those sun-bleached colours: they have about them the aura of a dream, but also of aging and authenticity. Like the enthusiasm for sepia-toned photos, which is effectively a symptom of a society with no sense of history, for whom sepia is the colour of all things past and fulfilling, this bleached feel gives it that blurred-edge lightness of nostalgia. But it is the sun that is crucial: in almost every scene of this 90 seconds commercial, the sun is present, bathing the girl-woman in a constant maternal light. And it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the sun in this ad becomes coterminous with John Lewis (‘Our lifetime commitment to you’): there for us come youth or old age, in sickness and in health.

Second, the response. We in Australia, have not seen this commercial on our televisions, but the response overseas has been overwhelming. People have been moved to tears and it has been the subject of talk back radio and tv. Why so moving? Why so much response?

I think the answer is because it presents an (idealised) human life in its entirety. This is something one almost never sees in real life: normally, we die after our parents and before our children. So to envisage a whole life in a single meaningful unit is moving in itself because we are not something that happens. But more importantly: the rhythms of modern day capitalism are such that the only periods we can think in tend to be between pay packets.

Come to City Night Church this week to think about the issues surrounding Capitalism. Dinner afterwards – our Great Lasagna Bake Off at the end of church.

Mike Turner.

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