Here is the headline from a story in SMH yesterday: Youth leader escapes jail for dead possum prank (h/t Michelle). The youth group leader had a bunch of youth group boys with him when they decided to drag a dead possum behind the car that he was driving. They didn’t hurt the possum… [...]
08.30John Dickson Podcast
iTunes has re-done the categories section under Podcasts in the music store. This means that once again there is a Religious & Spirituality section (and even a Christianity section). Therefore we’ll be encouraging listeners of our podcast to help us make an assault on the top100!!
While browsing the top100 I found a [...]
08.29Bible Reading Plan
I started a new Bible reading plan this morning. Basically I am alternating between the NT and OT each morning. Today I started by reading a chunk of Matthew and tomorrow I plan on reading a chunk of Genesis and so on. There are 3 things that make this Bible reading different from [...]
I think there are 2 key options for the planter of a church (this isn’t from any books or anything… just observation). 1) GO and 2) STAY.
GO - with this model the church planter establishes the church and then after a short number of years (2-5?) leaves to plant another one. When they [...]
08.25CCEC turns 10!
Tonight is the Central Coast Evangelical Church (CCEC) 10th Anniversary dinner. I’m currently finishing the ‘10 - looking back and looking forward’ video to be launched tonight. Phillip Jensen and Andrew Heard will be speaking tonight, while John Woodhouse and Will Orpwood (our 1st MTS worker who helped plant the church with Andrew) [...]
My aim is to blog once every week day… but I can’t help but post again today. After our campaign with on the poddy (see here), among the bags of fan mail (thanks Ian + others) we’ve been receiving we received one from Denmark. She pleaded that we not Axe the show. [...]
…YOU go and listen to it and do what it says! We are still getting some 300+ downloads a week, but aren’t sure how many people are actually listening to it.
Click to download the latest episode: Renaissance01 = The Reawakening
Do you listen?
This is a tribute to Roger “I scored a goal from half-way” Guest and also an invitation to come and watch our soccer team this Saturday at 3pm Fagan’s Park West Gosford. We came second so will be playing the top team. If we win we go straight into the Grand Final.
Feel free [...]
08.22Me Church
(h/t to dan)
If church was all about you (btw IT ISN’T!!!) what’s one thing that it would have?
Edit:Ben is a party pooper.You can still view the video here(YouTube link removed and screen shot is now above)
Saturday was an eventful day. I went to a surprise engagement party at 7am in the morning. The surpise was that the proposal only happened at 6:30am that morning!! Lots of fun. Good food with some good friends. Congrats Marty and Kartina!
Late morning I went to visit my sister and [...]
08.18New Website
I made a new website today. It’s for coast youth REVOLUTION. Go and check it out WWW.CYREVOLUTION.COM
For the blogheads: the interface with wordpress is slower than blogger, but if I had broadband maybe it wouldn’t be a problem!
Had a look yet? What do you think?
More2life is the basketball team that I put together 2.5 seasons ago. At the time I was weighing up whether to bring my own team of Christian friends together or go down to the stadium and ask to be put into a team of strangers. Within a day of simply mentioning it to [...]
08.16Titus 3
Just got back from a conference. It was pure gold. Great to reflect on the mission of planting more churches around Australia.
4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, [...]
MySpace is ugly. I think that it isn’t particularly functional, the designs are ugly and cumbersome. The system for commenting is annoying. Users often talk about rubbish, but then again teenagers are the key demographic for using MySpace. I think that there are better methods of having a presence on the internet [...]