As you know Matt is the teaching pastor at Takanini Community Church in Auckland. Our church has decided to try holding a Messy Church service once a month. The format is not like traditional church. It involves breakfast, a relaxed lounge-style teaching, family friendly craft tables and an MandM corner – complete with M&M’s and […]
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Hang in the MandM corner at Takanini Community Church’s “Messy Church” this Sunday
October 26th, 2013 2 Comments
Hear Matt at MPC on: “Is it Narrow-Minded to Think Jesus is the Only Way?”
September 13th, 2013 1 Comment
This blog’s Matthew Flannagan will be speaking at Massey Presbytarian Church’s Night Church Service on the topic “Is it Narrow-Minded to Think Jesus is the Only Way?“ Details are: 7:00pm (come at 6:30pm to grab a meal from the Night Church cafe) Sunday 29 September 2013 Massey Presbyterian Church 510 Don Buck Road, Auckland, New Zealand […]
Tags: Apologetics · Massey Presbyterian Church · Relativism
Easter Sunday: Contemplating the Resurrection Accounts
March 31st, 2013 2 Comments
Matt preached the Easter Sunday message at Takanini Community Church this morning. Listen to his message “Contemplating the Resurrection Accounts” online or download it as an MP3. (Read Matthew 28:1-15 first.) Related post: Good Friday: The Ritual of Contemplating the Cross
Tags: Apologetics · Easter · MP3 · Preaching
Good Friday: The Ritual of Contemplating the Cross
March 29th, 2013 1 Comment
Matt preached the Good Friday message at Takanini Community Church this morning. Listen to his message “The Ritual of Contemplating the Cross” online or download it as an MP3. (Read John 19 first.) Related post: Good Friday: Why Celebrate Easter?
Tags: Easter · Good Friday · MP3 · Preaching
Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 33 (Mp3)
December 8th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 33 (Mp3)
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 33. Genesis 33 – Jacob Meets Esau 33 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in […]
Tags: Genesis · MP3 · Sermons · Takanini Community Church
Back from the USA
November 23rd, 2012 23 Comments
Madeleine and I flew back to New Zealand from Milwaukee on Tuesday having both attended the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, and the Evangelical Philosophical Society’s Apologetics Conference. Prior to that I had spent three weeks based in Charlotte, North Carolina. I will speak about the conferences later in […]
Tags: Cherokee Apologetics Conference · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society · Frank Beckwith · Mary-Jo Sharp · Milwaukee · North Carolina · Paul Copan · Southern Evangelical Seminary Apologetics Conference
Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 32 (Mp3)
November 17th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 32 (Mp3)
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 32. Genesis 32 – Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau 32 [a]Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.[b] 3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of […]
Tags: Genesis · MP3 · Preaching · Takanini Community Church

A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.




