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All meetings are held at 8.00 PM on the Third Friday of the month at
Marlow C of E Infant School,
Sandygate Road, Marlow, Bucks., SL7 3AZ
unless otherwise stated.
(August and December - No Meeting)
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AUGUST - NO MEETING
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19th 2008
John McKay
International Director, Creation Research
SUBJECT - As in the Days of Noah
John Mackay is an international speaker and International Director of Creation Research. He has been lecturing on the subject of origins and doing field research worldwide for the last 30 years.
In March 2005 John debated the UK’s leading theistic evolutionist, Dr John Polkinghorne in a lively clash, hosted by popular BBC commentator Roger Phillips. The entire debate was professionally filmed and adds to the long list of John’s debates against leading evolutionists. During 2004, John was asked to debate 3 New Zealand professors at once. His opposition included Dr David Penny who had just been awarded NZ’s highest science prize in genetics. In the preceding 4 years, John debated such notable opponents as Cambridge geologist Dr Trevor Emmet at the Mumford Lecture Theatre Cambridge, Geology Professor Dr Tim Astin at Reading University and Harvard University Professor Chris Di Carlos at Guelph University, Canada. During January 1999 he was pitted against Dr Eugenie Scott, head of the National Center for Science in the USA.
At a Technical level John has addressed geologists at the Sydney Basin Coal Conference (1984) on the evidence for rapid coal formation and pursued this topic for a poster paper at the International Coal Conference (1985). In 1991, he addressed the Association of Geological and Earth Sciences at Oxford (UK) on the topic ‘The Evidence for Noah’s Flood’. In 1995 he gave a presentation on the same theme to the Tennessee Division of Geology, Tennessee (USA). In 1999 he presented a lecture to the Cambridge University Union (UK) on “The History of Brief Time” - the evidence the world did not evolve over millions of years. His science degree was obtained at the University of Queensland (Australia).
John has published many articles and appeared widely on radio, TV and public seminars, in universities, schools and churches throughout the western world. The CEVMA Film Festival 2004 in Hohe Rhön, Germany awarded their top Christian TV award to Creation Research programs. His latest Science and Bible DVD (2004), titled “Did a Good God make Bad Bugs?”, is a Christian’s rebuttal to evolutionist David Attenborough.
TEACHING WEEKEND
FRIDAY OCTOBER 17th 2008
Saturday October 18th
Jacob Prasch
Director, Moriel Ministries
SUBJECTS TBA
Bring a packed lunch on Saturday (Tea & Coffee provided)
Jacob Prasch was born near New York City in the USA where he became a Christian while studying science in university in February of 1972, after trying to disprove the bible with science, history, and archaeology. He found so much evidence in support of the claims of Jesus and the Bible that it required more faith to reject it than to believe it. Jacob is a Hebrew speaking evangelist to The Jews and a bible teacher elaborating on the original Judeo-Christian background and hermeneutics of The New Testament. Jacob & Moriel are committed to the conviction that we are in The Last Days approaching the return of Christ and that contemporary events in The Middle East; the moral deterioration of society; the destruction of the environment; the globalisation of the world economy; the rise of a pseudo-democratic federal Europe and above all, the apostasy in the contemporary church, are all events of prophetic significance eschatologically.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21st 2008
Dr Robert Congdon (USA)
SUBJECT - TBA
Born in Chicago, Dr. Robert Congdon is an international Bible teacher and speaker. He has conducted numerous pastoral seminars, is a frequent guest on the radio, both in the USA and internationally, has taught at several Bible institutes and pastored two churches. Rob has authored theological articles and two books, is a member of a Christian theological “think-tank” and has produced several Christian video productions.
For six years until 2007, Dr Congdon was resident in the United Kingdom as British Field Representative of the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry.
Rob has offered insight into the rapid growth of the European Union and its potential consequences on modern day Christianity and Christian missions. He has witnessed first hand the spiritual collapse of Christianity in Europe and the United Kingdom. That collapse is a direct consequence of the churches failure to employ correct Biblical solutions to the theological and cultural assaults aimed at them by the EU and church growth movements, such as the Purpose-Driven/Emergent Church.
It is the purpose of Congdon Ministries International to inform, warn, teach, and assist churches to contend for the faith and thus avoid the pitfalls that have spiritually destroyed many churches in Europe. Dr. Congdon teaches and stresses the need to better under the Scriptures and the Author of the Scriptures in order to prepare to serve the Lord in both the Millennium and in the age to come.
Dr. Congdon holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois; a Master’s of Divinity degree from Grace Theological Seminary; and a Doctor of Theology degree from Trinity Theological Seminary (Newburgh, IN). He is the founder and director of the Internet Bible Institute whose students come from Canada, the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Europe. His ministry is under the auspices of New Life Baptist Church in Naperville, Illinois.
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