Videos of Pastor Colin teaching "Christian Theology in a Sudanese Context" in early 2006,
before God took back his voice, using cancer, after lending it to him for 57 years. All lessons are now here, 1 to 53, with video timings...
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Christian theology in a Sudanese context
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Acknowledgements and Contents
Christian Theology in a Sudanese Context. A primer in Christian Theology: with examples throughout drawn from Sudanese life and culture....
1. Introduction
Christian Theology in a Sudanese Context. Theology is to be considered and experienced. In Khartoum we often hear people saying: “God is...
2. Is the God of Islam the same as the God of Christianity?
Christian Theology in a Sudanese context. Theology is to be considered and experienced. Some Christians believe that Muslims worship a...
3. Hungry to get to know God better
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. Theology is to be considered and experienced. The study of the characteristics and attributes...
4. What comes into your mind when you think about God?
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. Theology is to be considered and experienced. How do we rightly think about God without...
5. A helpful exercise
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. Theology is to be considered and experienced. I have found the following exercise helpful using...
6. Why study theology?
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. Theology is to be considered and experienced. The study of the name, nature, person and work of...
7. God perfectly exists in a different life form from us
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. God is Spirit In Bahri suk one day a man tried to...
8. God is One complete God
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Unity of God No one attribute of God is any...
9. One God in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Holy Trinity God is mysterious as well as...
10. God is apart from and above time
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Eternity of God Every 1st January since 1956...
11. God is everywhere present at the same time
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Omnipresence of God To be ‘omnipresent’ means to...
12. God is a living Being Who can think, feel and decide
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Personality of God God is a living Person. He...
13. God is able to do anything His character allows Him to do
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Omnipotence of God Which of the two following...
14. God knows everything
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Omniscience of God God must know absolutely...
15. God is purely God
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Holiness of God ‘Holiness’ can be described as...
16. God's heartfelt and active care for our well-being
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Love of God God is love. This “love” is not...
17. God's fair treatment of everyone while being true to His own character
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Justice of God Righteousness and justice are...
18. God does not give us what we deserve
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Mercy of God ‘Mercy’ in English means ‘the...
19. God can always be trusted
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The Faithfulness of God God’s faithfulness means...
20. God always agrees with the mind of God
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The essential nature and character of God. The True God Jesus Christ called His Father “… the...
21. God's purpose for the Bible
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's word written down and published. Reading this section, it is important to keep in mind...
22. The truth of the Bible
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's word written down and published. I believe that whatever the Bible asserts to be true is...
23. God breathed the Bible
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's word written down and published. Muslims believe the Qur’an was dictated by Allah,...
24. How our Bible is like it is
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's word written down and published. It took over 1,600 years for the Bible to be written....
25. How the Bible came to Sudan
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's word written down and published. The very earliest Christians in Cush had formed “a...
26. Translating the Bible
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's word written down and published. Some of us may take for granted the Bible we have to...
27. Interpreting and applying the Bible
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's word written down and published. Hermeneutics is the science that teaches principles,...
28. Starting where the Bible starts
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The beginning of the story of God and humankind. The Bible is not a collection of independent...
29. God's creation of man
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The beginning of the story of God and humankind. In the book of Genesis God uses the word ‘Man’...
30. Mankind's sin against God
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. The beginning of the story of God and humankind. Sin is any rebellion against God and His will...
31. Jesus the Man Who is God
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's chosen Saviour - Jesus! Reading this section, (as section 3 earlier), it is still...
32. Jesus, the God Who is Man.
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's chosen Saviour - Jesus! Khartoum is famous for its bridges. The bridge over the White...
33. Jesus, past, present and future
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's chosen Saviour - Jesus! The Bible’s book of Revelation opens a window into the...
34. A 'just peace' with God
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's chosen Saviour - Jesus! In Sudan’s long running civil war, there have always been...
35. The unique Jesus
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's chosen Saviour - Jesus! The word ‘unique’ means “being the only one of a particular...
36. 'Another One like Me', Jesus said
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God's chosen Saviour - Jesus! While it is true that Jesus Christ is unique, it is also...
37. A living Person: God the Holy Spirit
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God the Holy Spirit and our Christian experience. What word, beginning with the letter ‘P’,...
38. An Old Testament pattern of the Holy Spirit
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God the Holy Spirit and our Christian experience. ‘The fellowship of the Holy Spirit’ is His...
39. A New Testament presence of the Holy Spirit
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God the Holy Spirit and our Christian experience. Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost...
40. Recent controversies concerning the Holy Spirit
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God the Holy Spirit and our Christian experience. Many of the recent divisions between...
41. Testing and discerning for truth
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God the Holy Spirit and our Christian experience. Every Christian believer has the...
42. Spiritual warfare
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God the Holy Spirit and our Christian experience. Two dangers should be noted at the...
43. Explaining a mystery - how God saves His people from their sins
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. How God saves His people from their sins. Every person who is alive is on a spiritual journey....
44. Extracts from 'statements of belief' from different churches of Sudan
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. How God saves His people from their sin. All Christians are agreed that salvation centres...
45. Definition of key 'salvation' words
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. How God saves His people from their sins. I have chosen the definitions that follow from...
46. Explaining how salvation is experienced
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. How God saves His people from their sins. We have already seen there is a large element of...
47. Taking care in our evangelism
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. How God saves His people from their sin. It is possible to have a ‘heresy of method’ as well...
48. The Old and New Testament Church
Christian theology in a Sudanese context. God lives in the Church. From Abraham onwards, God has been ‘calling out’ a people to...
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