We Are NTC

On Saturday evening, 15th of June 2024, we held an installation service for our new Principal, Rev Dr Joseph Wood. The gathering included the presence of our Regional Director for Asia-Pacific, Rev Dr Mark Louw, who preached for us. It was a wonderful time of celebrating this important moment in the life of the college.

*Apologies for some sound difficulties in the recording.

Welcome to NTC’s new academic year. It is an exciting time of the year because it is full of potential and hope.

For those of you who have been faithfully following the podcast, you will know that it has been a while since we released

This first podcast is a recording of the sermon from our first community chapel service of the year. Joseph Wood preached a sermon on the theme of Epiphany, focusing on the calling of the first disciples and the story of Jonah. Before you listen, take a moment to read Mark 1.14-20 and Jonah 3.1-10.

If you enjoy the podcast, please share it with your friends and family, share it with your church community, and please do share it with anyone you think may be interested in studying with us. We would love to see our podcast and our college continue to grow.

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May God bless you as you listen.

Rev Richard Giesken, Associate Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Missiology, preached in our community chapel service on 19 September 2023. The text for the sermon was 1 John 5.6-21.

Podcast theme music by Bensound.

Recently, we held our annual Spiritual Deepening weekend at All Nations Church in Auckland, NZ. Joining those in person at the church was a small group who gathered in the Brisbane campus chapel, and several people online.

Our speaker this year was the Rev Roland Hearn, field strategy coordinator in the Church of the Nazarene for Australia and New Zealand. Focusing on the first letter of John, Roland explored what he called, ‘the heart of holiness’. Over three evenings this theme was unpacked and shared with those in attendance.

Through the grace of technology, we were able to record these sermons to share with you. This episode features the final evening, titled: The Life of Love.

As always, we pray God’s blessing on you as you listen.

Recently, we held our annual Spiritual Deepening weekend at All Nations Church in Auckland, NZ. Joining those in person at the church was a small group who gathered in the Brisbane campus chapel, and several people online.

Our speaker this year was the Rev Roland Hearn, field strategy coordinator in the Church of the Nazarene for Australia and New Zealand. Focusing on the first letter of John, Roland explored what he called, ‘the heart of holiness’. Over three evenings this theme was unpacked and shared with those in attendance.

Through the grace of technology, we were able to record these sermons to share with you. This episode features the second evening, titled: Children of God and Condemning Hearts.

As always, we pray God’s blessing on you as you listen.

Hello and welcome to the We Are NTC podcast, a production of NTC Australia/New Zealand. My name is Joseph Wood, I am the Dean of Students at NTC and your host for the podcast.

Recently, we held our annual Spiritual Deepening weekend at All Nations Church in Auckland, NZ. Joining those in person at the church was a small group who gathered in the Brisbane campus chapel, and several people online.

Our speaker this year was the Rev Roland Hearn, field strategy coordinator in the Church of the Nazarene for Australia and New Zealand. Focusing on the first letter of John, Roland explored what he called, ‘the heart of holiness’. Over three evenings this theme was unpacked and shared with those in attendance.

Through the grace of technology, we were able to record these sermons to share with you. This episode features the first evening, titled: Darkness and Desire.

As always, we pray God’s blessing on you as you listen.

Welcome to the second episode of 2023. Our

Richard is more than a lecturer. He is a

We hope you enjoy getting to know Richard as

https://ntc.edu.au/about-us/college-staff/rev-richard-giesken

Today we have a bonus episode for you. On Tuesday, 7th of March, we held our regular community chapel service. This was a unique time of worship because we hosted the chapel in two locations using video conference technology. Our Dean of Students, Rev Dr Joseph Wood, was in New Zealand teaching an intensive class at our Auckland location, and our preacher, Rev Jenna Stout, lives just down the road in Hamilton. Because Dr Wood was going to be in country, he invited her to join him in Auckland.

Jenna Stout is a missionary for the Church of the Nazarene on the Australia and New Zealand field. She has a masters degree from Nazarene Theological Seminary and is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. For the past few years she and her husband, Andrew, have been serving the Church in a variety of ways. Currently, they are Community Engagement Coordinators and work with the ANZ Field Communications Team.

Jenna is a mother of two, a lover of Jesus, and a passionate story-teller. We were blessed to have her preach for us through the first chapter of 1 John. Before listening to her sermon, please feel free to pause the podcast and read the passage below. We hope this is a blessing to you.

1 John 1.1 - 1 John 2.2 (NLT)

We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. 2 This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy.

5 This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. 6 So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 7 But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. 9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

2 My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. 2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.

Welcome to episode one of the year 2023. Our guest for today is Rev Dr Linda Stargel, our academic dean and senior lecturer in Old testament and biblical languages. Linda came to NTC in 2019 with a wealth of experience in teaching, pastoral ministry and nursing. In her role as academic dean she is responsible for looking after faculty, providing quality assurance of our programs and liaising with the Sydney College of Divinity.

Linda loves helping students thrive in learning. Her passion for education is clearly exemplified in her teaching and care for students. In our conversation we talk about where this passion began and how God has led her along the way. She also shares her testimony of how God can speak to people through the most unlikely of places.

I hope you enjoy getting to know Linda as you listen to our conversation.

Linda's book may be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Construction-Exodus-Identity-Ancient-Israel/dp/1532640986/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1677558674&sr=8-1 

Hello and welcome to the We Are NTC podcast, a production of NTC Australia/New Zealand. 

The new academic year has begun and we are looking forward to what 2023 has in store for us.

This week we held our first chapel service and our Dean of Students, Rev Dr Joseph Wood, introduced our theme for the year: The Heart of Ministry: John’s First Letter to the Church.

In this episode of the podcast, you will hear him give an overview of the first letter of John and I explore what it may be saying to us as a college community.

We will be having 6 more chapel services this year. For those of you near to the Brisbane campus, please feel free to join us in person. And for those of you further away, you can connect with us using Zoom. Email the NTC office for details: [email protected].

 If joining us live is not possible for you, then subscribe to the podcast where each chapel sermon will be made available.

This episode begins with a reading of 1 John 2:24-29 read by our Registrar, Pam.