Dr Peter Mallen, Director of Discipleship Education for the Uniting Church, Victoria, has produced a set of Bible studies for Advent based on the lectionary passages. You can access them here.
Peter is a New Testament scholar who previously lectured at Tabor College in Melbourne. He is a member of North Ringwood Uniting Church.
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
Advent Bible Studies
A welcome to new visitors
We’ve just been promoting this site as part of our synod’s Resourcing Expo – so welcome if you’re a new visitor! Feel free to browse around. We’re about to review some new resources, particularly on sharing faith with newcomers and enquirers, since that seems to be a common request!
We are about to plan “Pathways” workshops [...]
So how do people enter your community life?
That’s the question? We’ve been looking at Edward Hall’s understandings about how different groups, people and societies use physical and relational space. (see previous posts) So let me describe the fourth kind of ’space’ and then look at ‘entry points’.
Private Space is our most intimate space, reserved for partners and spouses, immediate family or household [...]
Personal Space
Apologies for the gap in posting! We’ve been exploring some things raised in the Welcoming Church series – in particular the idea that people ‘belong’ in different kinds of spaces. See below for descriptions of Public Space, and Social Space.
The third kind of space is Personal Space, friendship space. As people move deeper into community [...]