The FIEC youth conference Contagious has had a tremendous impact on me over the six years that I’ve attended it. Not so much a holiday as a Bible-boot camp, it is always a really incredible week of teaching, fun and friendship. It doesn’t shy away from controversial or confused issues – in previous years it has tackled topics such as the Holy Spirit, the Book of Revelation and the Sovereignty of God. Although it doesn’t shy away from the intellectual side of things, it is always very practical, with a strong emphasis on working out what we’ve been learning means for us in our everyday lives. And now this year’s talks (“The Big Teach”s) have hit the Internet.
I’ll be interested to listen to the talks out of their original context. Without the accompanying seminars, question times, fun, singing and friendly environment, listening to recordings of the talks is obviously a poor substitute to actually being there, but I’m sure they are still very helpful and challenging teaching of the word of God.
The theme of the week was Smashing the Idols of the Heart, and I’d highly recommend the talks:
- Big Teach 1: God the Only
- Big Teach 2: Idols – their power and failure (part one)
- Big Teach 3: Idols – their power and failure (part two)
- Big Teach 4: The Jealous God
- Big Teach 5: Jesus the Idol Smasher
- Big Teach 6: Desiring God
The only downside is that these are pretty big files for the length of the talk – I’ll have to talk to the guy who has put them online about reducing the file size, which should be possible at little loss of quality.
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