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Trumix.com listings available of Dion's random ramblings Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Does religion REALLY matter!? A debate on blasphemy between Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens The story at the end of this post gave me some cause for concern. It was Arcbishop Desmond Tutu who once commented that the problem with us 'religious' types is that we tend to give answers to questions that people aren't asking!Heck, I have certainly been in a few service where I heard someone preach and asked the question "now what the heck was that about!?" Yup, it is a sad reality of 'naval gazing', we do tend to get so caught up in our own worlds that we forget that there are 'other ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Jesus is Lord? A sermon by Professor Joerg Rieger. Two weeks ago we announced the Public Lectures by Professor Joerg Rieger from Perkins School of Theology in Dalas, Texas.I am delighted to let you know that the lectures went off extremely well! Joerg was not only great, he was better than great! So, to start the ball rolling I am uploading Joerg's great sermon entitled 'Jesus is Lord?' In this sermon Joerg asks the question, if we say that Jesus is Lord, what do we mean by that? He discusses the concepts the Lordship of Christ from Chr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Please help to get the podcast on Zimbabwean refugees visible by voting for it! Please could you get as many persons as you know (who are willing) to vote for the podcast on the police's treatment of Zimbabwean refugees?The more persons that vote for it, the broader the message will spread!Steve Hayes has kindly put it on Muti, so please sign in and give it a few votes. Simply scroll through the page, or search for 'Central Methodist Church'I have also added it to Digg, please sign in there and give it a few votes by 'digging' it. Let's see if we can get the message ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Power outages and potholes - choosing to live on the side of God's hope! This morning I preached at Calvary Methodist Church, as I have mentioned previously it is truly one of the most remarkable Churches! It is wonderfully racially integrated, they have a truly significant justice ministry, caring for many homeless persons, refugees etc.Today was their covenant service, a special service for Methodists the world over. You can read about it here. Each year Methodists covenant themselves to be obedient to God's will. The prayer that is used is very meaningful ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: [Repost, fixed] An exceptional critique of Philip Pullman's series 'His Dark materials', and the book 'The Golden Compass' by Simon Coupland This podcast is a pre-recorded talk given by Rev Simon Coupland, a minister of the Church of England in London, on Philip Pullman's books in the 'His dark materials' series.Simon is levelheaded, his talk is exceptionally well researched. It offers facts about both Philip Pullman, and the contents of each of the three books.This is the best input I have heard on 'His dark materials' and 'The Golden compass'. Coupland is a Minister, but seems to have been trained as an Historian. So what h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A fine balance... I think this is where the Church often gets Christianity wrong. There have been a few hints about the 'new thing' that I shall be doing. Don't worry, news about that will follow in due course.However, I was in conversation with one of the senior leaders of the denomination that I serve about this new course when he asked me an interesting question. He said something like "Wouldn't that be a bit too evangelical for you, taking into account your approach to the social gospel?" In short, he was setting up a dichotomy between commitment to the Gospel (an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The courage to live for eternity... Because, the world is not enough! Last night we started a new sermon series at Bryanston Methodist Church. It is a series on living for Christ, in our world, with courage!I had a great time preaching the first sermon in the series. The title is styled on the James Bond movie 'The World is not enough'. In this series we will be examining Mark's Gospel - a direct, to the point, charge to believe in the Messiah, and then to submit to discipleship under the Lordship of the Messiah.Mark frames this charge in the words of Jesu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Crippled Mac Powerbook Choir sings (electronically) 'Twas the nigh before Christmas'... You've got to hear this! I thought this was just magnificent - a choir made up of old, half dead, Mac Powerbooks. They are all singing 'Twas the night before Christmas.Click here to download the file in MP3 Format (6MB). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A magnificent resource for small group leaders - Scot Mcknight on 'the whole Gospel' I regularly check by the 'emergent village' website. I also subscribe to their podcast (downloaded onto my ipod as soon as it is updated... like a real emergent 'mac' user!)I was catching up on some podcasts at the hospital today when I came upon this fantastic podcast of a talk that Professor Scot Mcknight gave entitled 'the whole Gospel'. It was given to a group of small group leaders and it is amazing!Amongst other things he charts how small groups (that exist quite apart from 'regular ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why study theology? Does it enrich your ministry and your devotion to God - Podcast Dr Jennifer Slater This is the third in a series of pre-recorded podcasts that I have prepared in the last few days. This podcast is in the form of a talk delivered by Dr Jennifer Slater, the Dean of the National Seminary of the Catholic Church, here in South Africa. Her topic was Theology, ministry, and the devout life.Jenny is a Dominican sister, she has a Doctorate in Theology and is a wonderful friend of mine. The occassion of the recording was the Valedictory service for the students leaving John Wesl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spirituality Podcast: MP3 Bible study by Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah from Ghana (PART 2) This podcast is the second a pre-recorded Bible study of Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana. I posted the first one earlier this week, so please just scroll down to find it and download it.The theme of the first Bible Study was "Come Holy Spirit, heal and transform Your Church". This second Bible Study asks the question "What will a Church look like that has been healed and transformed by the Holy Spirit?"Please feel free to leave comments!You c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spirituality Podcast: MP3 Bible study by Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah from Ghana It has been a while since I've uploaded a Spirituality podcast to the blog. This podcast is a pre-recorded Bible study of Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana. I have a second one that I need to edit and upload (I hope to be able to do so by the weekend).The theme of this first Bible Study is "Come Holy Spirit, heal and transform Your Church" it is a wonderfully challenging and encouraging African Christian perspective.Please feel free to leave c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bishop Ivan Abrahams' plenary paper at the Oxford Institute Bp Ivan Abrahams, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, delivered the following challenging paper entitled "A different world is possible: Positioning the Church in the 21st century".The paper argues that globalisation, macro economics, and neo-liberal economics are a new form of slavery for the two third's world. He presents a Wesleyan theology as a critique of these policies of enslavement and domination.The paper is very well researched, it offers a creative ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Church that displays the hospitality, warmth, and welcome of Christ's Gospel. Last week a number of Christian lay people and ministers met in Cape Town informed by the 115th Conference of the MCSA (PE-2001) that resolved that we (Methodists) would be "a community of love rather than rejection", and the practical enactment of this value that was resolved by the 117th Conference (Johannesburg-2005) which decided that safe places be formed "...for people of a same sex orientation to tell their stories. [where there can be]... healing and forgiveness for both the churc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mvume Dandala - World Methodist Council keynote address on Reconciliation Dr Mvume Dandala, a past Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, now the President of the All Africa Council of Churches, delivered an extremely challenging keynote address. He pulled no punches, addressing issues such as exploitation of Africa by rich and powerful nations, the pandemic of HIV / AIDS and the Church's lack of concern for true unity and reconciliation. You can download the address here: Mvume Dandala's Keynote address (22.5MB's). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trevor Hudson - World Methodist Council, Seoul Bible Study 'Listening for the groans' Here is a superb Bible study presented by the Revd Trevor Hudson of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. It is inspiring, challenging, and a wonderful word for the Churches. The chosen text is Romans 8:22-27. Trevor Hudson's Bible study (15MB's). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spirituality podcast 8 (Bondi) - 9 July 2006 - scast8Bondi.mp3 (13MB) Can you believe it? It has been almost 8 months since I did an actual podcast! The last one one was on the 4th of November (if my memory serves me well). Well, this is a VERY SPECIAL podcast. It was recorded on Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. Here's a picture of my portable podcasting rig. I use a Sony ECM-MS907 Condenser Mic (one of the best quality portable microphones on the market. That is most often connected to my Sanyo Voice recorder (which records directly t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is your hair falling out? Are your joints getting loose? Don't despair! There's someone who loves you! Have you ever felt unloved, not worthy, just not good enough? Well, then maybe today's podcast is for you! It is based on God's view of you as it can be found from scripture. The Bible is full of wonderful affirmations of who God has created us to be! The link for this message comes from that wonderful story, "The Velveteen Rabbit". Here is a short excerpt: The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God sanctioned vandalism! Doing things that are out of the ordinary seem to appeal to my non-confirmist sensibilities! One of my favourite passages in the Gospels is the account of the four friends who decide to smash a hole in someone else's roof so that their friend can be brought to Jesus for healing. John Maxwell's, in his book "Think on these things", asks the question "What kind of person would be brave enough to bust a hole in someone else's roof?" (this is my rough paraphrase). This sermon was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website