Moore in the Word

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Tuesday 12 August 2025, Tony Payne, Director of the Centre for Christian Living and Lecturer in the Theology, Philosophy and Ethics Department of Moore Theological College, speaks on Philippians 1:1-11 and Paul’s prayer for the Philippians.Tony reminds us that knowledge and discernment are integral to the growth of love, because love always has an object: what we love is often determined by our knowledge. But if our knowledge is shaped by knowing God, it will direct our love to him, the source and creator of all goodness.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Next Library event: The Huguenots and the French Reformation.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Friday 1 August 2025, Mark Thompson, Principal of Moore Theological College, speaks on John 4:1-42 and Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well.He reminds us that Jesus, the saviour of the world, is genuinely human, he came to give life, he is the centre of true worship, and he’s ushered in the time of harvest. Furthermore, there is no life too messed up for him; to all who ask, he will pour out the blessing of living water: eternal life.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Find out more and apply for the Preliminary Theological Certificate (PTC).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from an interview conducted by former Archbishop of Sydney Peter Jensen, Grahame and Patty Scarratt, former missionaries with the Church Missionary Society of Australia, tell the story of how they ended up in Chile and how God used them to serve the Latin American church.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Find out more about the 100 Ministry Stories Project.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Tuesday 29 July 2025, Simon Gillham, Vice Principal and Head of the Mission Department at Moore Theological College, speaks on John 17:1-26 and Jesus’ prayer the night before he died.Simon points out that Jesus’ prayer is all about the activity of mission—of sending. Jesus is the one sent from the Father. He then sends his disciples into the world with the expectation that their ministry will be effective—effective enough to reach us. We in turn are also sent to participate in God’s great work of mission.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Find out more about studying at Moore Theological College.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from an interview Veronica Hoyt, Director of the Priscilla & Aquila Centre, conducted earlier in 2025, Dani Treweek, post-doctoral theological researcher, author and speaker, recounts her journey to faith and journey to ministry, and how things haven't quite turned out the way she thought they would.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Find out more about the 100 Ministry Stories Project.Find out more about Dani Treweek and her ministry, and her new book, Single Ever After.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Friday 25 July 2025 as part of Mission Awareness Week, Dan Webster, missionary in Namibia with the Church Missionary Society of Australia, speaks on Ephesians 4:1-16 and the gifts Christ gives his church for building up his body.Dan reminds us that even though the church only grows to maturity thanks to God’s work in us, we still have a role to play. We must use the gifts he has given us for the benefit of others—not just in our local context, but also for the sake of the global church.Please note: Dan refers to a talk he gave on the Wednesday of Mission Awareness Week, but unfortunately that was not recorded.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Next CCL biblical ethics workshop: The Smartphone Disciple (Mon 29 Oct 2025): Find out more and register.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Tuesday 22 July 2025 as part of Mission Awareness Week, Dan Webster, missionary in Namibia with the Church Missionary Society of Australia, speaks on Ephesians 1:3-14 and the goodness of God’s will.He reminds us that it is God’s will that all things on heaven and on earth be summed up in Christ, and that God’s will is being worked out in the world today towards that end. Given this certain future, whose will are you conforming yours to: God’s or your own?For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Next Library event: The Huguenots and the French Reformation (Wed 8 Oct 2025). Find out more and register.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Friday 18 July 2025, Mark Thompson, Principal of Moore Theological College, speaks on John 3:22-36 and John the Baptist’s response to his disciples telling him that everyone is going to Jesus instead of him.Mark reminds us that comparison and competition have no place in Christian ministry. On the last day, no one will be debating who is the greatest theologian or evangelist or Christian leader; instead, our attention will be elsewhere, fixed on the bridegroom sent from heaven, the one for whom this whole show is for.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Find out more and register for our Open Events (26-27 Sep 2025).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from an elective at the 2025 Priscilla & Aquila Centre annual conference held on Monday 3 February 2025, Dr Kath Bruce, a GP, speaks about the medical side of menopause, and Cathy Young, Pastor at St David's Anglican Church in Forestville, Sydney, speaks about the ministry implications of menopause.They remind us that understanding perimenopause and menopause will help us understand many of the women in our churches and many of the women we are seeking to reach with the gospel.Even if you’re not a woman, let me encourage you to listen to Kath and Cathy’s talks, particularly if you are involved in pastoral ministry.Please note: the book Kath Bruce refers to at the end of her talk is Pause: How to enjoy God, find hope and bear fruit through midlife and the menopause by Sarah Allen. Also, this episode is a companion piece to last week’s bonus episode with Kate Snell on the theology of menopause. If you have not heard that one, I encourage you to go back and listen.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Library: explore the Samuel Marsden Archives.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Tuesday 15 July 2025, Simon Gillham, Vice Principal and Head of the Mission Department at Moore Theological College, speaks on John 13:1-20—Jesus washes his disciples’ feet—and how that relates to the mission of God.Simon reminds us that mission is not about you or what you do; it’s about Jesus. Mission is not about reaching the unreached; it’s about making disciples. And finally, God doesn’t need us for the work of mission, but he chooses and sends people to be just like Jesus.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Upcoming event: Donald Robinson Library Lectures: The Clapham Sect and their Influence on Sydney(30 Aug 2025).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from an elective at the 2025 Priscilla & Aquila Centre annual conference held on Monday 3 February 2025, Kate Snell, Assistant School Chaplain at Barker College and former Dean of Students at Mary Andrews College, and wife of Brian, Associate Minister at St Philip's, South Turramurra, helps us think theologically about menopause in a talk arising from a research paper she wrote as part of her Master of Arts in Theology.Kate points out that menopause has the potential to challenge everything a woman thinks and feels about herself and her place in the world, and therefore this season of life raises all kinds of issues for women that also impact the way the church can care for them pastorally.Even if you’re not a woman, let me encourage you to listen to Kate’s talk, particularly if you are involved in pastoral ministry. It will assist you in understanding the experience of something that will one day affect around 50 per cent of the population. That includes all the women in your life.Please note: this episode is a companion piece to next week’s bonus episode with Kath Bruce and Cathy Young on the medical and ministry considerations of menopause.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Next Priscilla & Aquila Centre evening seminar: A history of Complementarianism with Claire Smith (13 August 2025, 7-9pm).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Friday 23 May 2025, Simon Gillham, Vice Principal and Head of the Mission Department at Moore Theological College, speaks on Psalm 29 and the terrifying and mighty voice of the Lord.He reminds us that even though the world looks powerful, impressive, glorious and right, and our saviour appears weak, insignificant, lowly and despicable, we must still praise the Lord because we know what true glory looks like.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Friday 6 June 2025, Mark Thompson, Principal of Moore Theological College, speaks on John 2:23-3:21 and Nicodemus’s visit to Jesus by night.He reminds us that what Nicodemus needed to hear is also what we need to hear: salvation cannot be achieved by anything we do, it can only be accomplished by what God has done. Furthermore, the God who provides this unlikely gift is a God who loves us so very deeply.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Upcoming event: Reformation Research Forum (Thursday 14 August).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Tuesday 3 June 2025, Lionel Windsor, Lecturer in the New Testament Department at Moore Theological College, speaks on Luke 18:9-14 and the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector.He reminds us that the tax collector’s prayer is the foundational prayer of the Christian life, and that when we look for righteousness in Jesus, not ourselves, he grants it to us.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Donald Robinson Library event: The Huguenots and the French Reformation (Wed 8 Oct)Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from the second part of his plenary address at the 2025 Priscilla & Aquila Centre annual conference held on Monday 3 February 2025, Paul Grimmond, Head of the Ministry Department at Moore College, continues his exploration of Titus 2 and the commands to older men, older women, younger women and younger men.Before he discusses the practical outworkings of the chapter, however, Paul answers some common criticisms of these commands, and helps us to think about our attitude or “comportment” to Scripture as we approach this particular passage.We hope you find the episode helpful.(To listen to part 1 of Paul’s plenary address, please see episode 26 of our 2025 season, or visit the Priscilla & Aquila website.)For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Watch Paul Grimmond’s plenary addresses from the 2025 Priscilla & Aquila annual conference.Watch other talks from the 2025 Priscilla & Aquila annual conferenceFind out more and register for the August Priscilla & Aquila Centre seminar on “A history of Complementarianism” with Claire Smith (Wed 13 Aug 2025).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Friday 30 May 2025, Joel Atwood, missionary in Vanuatu with the Church Missionary Society Australia, speaks on Isaiah 45 and God’s word to the nation of Israel about his anointed one, King Cyrus.He reminds us that the plans of God are not our plans. When we are tempted to ask, “Why is God doing that?”, we need to remember that he is greater and more wonderful than our crude and limited conceptions of him. We can’t force him or rush him; we can only follow along to his timetable.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Find out more and register for the 2025 Donald Robinson Library Lectures on The Clapham Sect and their influence on Sydney (Sat 30 Aug).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Tuesday 27 May 2025, Lionel Windsor, Lecturer in the New Testament Department at Moore Theological College, speaks on Luke 18:1-8 and the parable of the persistent widow.He reminds us that as God has chosen us to be his people, that means he really cares about us, and therefore, when we cry out to him in prayer, he hears us and responds with love and justice.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Find out more and register for the Preliminary Theological Certificate (PTC).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Tuesday 20 May 2025, David Höhne, Academic Dean and Lecturer in the Theology, Philosophy and Ethics Department at Moore Theological College, speaks on Luke 7:18-35 and Jesus’ conversation with John the Baptist’s disciples and the witnessing crowd.David reminds us that wisdom is vindicated by her children, and that the wisdom of God is ultimately found in Christ Jesus himself.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.2025 Annual Moore College Lectures: A biblical theology of faith (Peter Orr) (4-8 Aug 2025).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Friday 16 May 2025, Mark Thompson, Principal of Moore Theological College, speaks on John 2:12-22 and Jesus’ cleansing of the temple in Jerusalem.He reminds us that Jesus is not one-dimensional: the same Lord who turned water into wine also fashioned a whip of cords to drive out the merchants, and therefore, we can’t pick and choose and construct a Jesus that suits us best.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Centre for Global Mission event: Embracing hard ministry: The Bible and the practice of global mission(Wed 23 July 2025).Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.

In this episode, from a chapel service held on Tuesday 13 May 2025, David Höhne, Academic Dean and Lecturer in the Theology, Philosophy and Ethics Department at Moore Theological College, speaks on Luke 6:20-36 and Jesus’ deconstruction of faith.He reminds us that real faith means facing rejection by others, loving and forgiving your enemies, and resting on the firm, unshakeable foundation that is the Lord Jesus Christ.For more audio resources, visit the Moore College website. There, you can also make a donation to support the work of the College.Contact us and find us on socials.Find out more about theological study at Moore.Please note: The episode transcript provided is AI-generated and has not been checked for accuracy. If quoting, please check against the audio.