No book feels more personal than the Psalms, whose 150 songs give us unique words with which to express our joys and our sorrows before God. No book is more theologically rich than the Psalms, which Martin Luther called ‘a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended’. The goal of this evening is to deepen our appreciation of the Psalms—as poetry, as a book, as a part of Christian Scripture—in order to deepen our experience of the Psalms as a crucial resource for Christian living.

SPEAKER

Andrew Shead has been teaching the Old Testament at Moore College for over 20 years. His current research interests are the book of Jeremiah, Hebrew poetry, and the Psalms. He is married with three teenage children, with whom he enjoys good food and good conversation.

Guilt and shame are two of the most powerful realities in human life. Most of us regard them as overbearingly negative experiences that must be avoided or removed if we are to find wholeness and happiness in our lives.

In fact, in Western culture, ridding ourselves of shame and guilt has become almost an obsession. Mainstream media and psychology constantly tell us, “You are wonderful, no matter what anyone else says. You just have to believe that, and you’ll find happiness.” But this message rings hollow: no matter how much we try to wish them away with positive thinking, guilt and shame remain crushingly real for many in our society.

In our next CCL event, Dan Wu will expose the biblical truth about guilt and shame–what guilt and shame are, how they can be both negative and positive experiences in our Christian lives, and how they relate to the most important reality affecting human life: the glory of God in the cross of Jesus Christ.

Speaker

Dan Wu teaches Old Testament and biblical languages at Moore College.

Tickets

Earlybird: $15 per person. ($20 after 18 October).

Moore College Community (faculty, staff, chaplains, undergraduates and postgraduates): FREE admission and individual livestream (not group). Registrations essential.

Supper included.