Youth Ministry: Happy Reformation Day Podcast

If you happen to have stumbled onto this reformation post (maybe from challies.com), On the Poddy with Dave & Dan is a weekly podcast of Central Coast Evangelical Church Youth.
You can subscribe with iTunes here. Download the Happy Reformation Day podcast from here (or directly from here).
Enjoy the show… and Happy Reformation Day to [...]

Youth Ministry: New Blog - The Youth Vanguard

Tim Roediger and I have started a new youth ministry blog. It’s called The Youth Vanguard: evangelical youth ministry authors collective. You can find it here.
Tim has some ideas to do a youth ministry writers group and I had some ideas to do youth ministry blog. Basically we’ve combined the two ideas [...]

Youth Ministry: YouTube and MySpace

Below is our first ccecyouth tv news. We played it last Friday night. It’s posted on our youth group news page. Click here if you can’t see it. Here is our YouTube channel. The plan is to do this type of thing a bit more often.
What do you think???

I’ve written [...]

Chaplain grant for all schools - smh

This is significant!?!?
Every Australian school will be eligible for a $20,000 grant to employ a chaplain - on condition the government is happy with its choice of spiritual guidance provider.
Prime Minister John Howard said today his scheme to promote pastoral care and spiritual guidance for students would be open to all public and private schools.
The [...]

Prayer Friday #008

This week I made it as a blogger. Not only did CraigS the top blog dog from Sydney link to me a stack of times (here, here, here, here) … but Tim Challies the King of Christian blogging linked to me. I’ve made it!! The picture below is Dan and I in [...]

Introducing God - book review

“And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” (John 17:3 - ESV) This verse, from Jesus’ prayer recorded in the Gospel According to John, describes eternal life as knowing God. Eternal life isn’t just having life forever, going to ‘heaven’, [...]

Firefox vs Internet Explorer

Last week Microsoft came out with Internet Explorer 7. The first update for many years. Basically they ripped a bunch of ideas from Firefox + added some new stuff. Today Mozilla launched Firefox 2. It’s got some great new features. 3 Reasons I like Firefox more than IE:1) It’s faster [...]

House of Flying Daggers

Row and I just finished watching House of Flying Daggers. She gave it to me in a 3-pack (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon + Kung Fu Hustle) for my Birthday. Visually it was stunning and the cinematography was very good. I used to be a fan of ‘D’ grade Kung Fu for the gratuitous [...]

Youth Ministry: Halloween and Reformation Day

Halloween is just around the corner. October 31. Starbucks have this disgusting pumpkin spice flavoured coffee (Bec - a friend who works at startbucks - gave me a taste before it was launched). Other than that I haven’t seen anything else using Halloween as a part of their sales pitch. Tim [...]

Revelation Sermon Series

Our morning church began a new sermon series yesterday morning. Andrew Heard kicked off the series preaching from Revelation 1. I didn’t hear the talk (we have yr 7-9 Bible study during 830 and 1030 church) so I’m listening to it now. Want to listen? Get it from here or directly [...]

Prayer Friday #007

Megan has been living with us for the last couple of weeks. It’s been lots of fun. Today she is leaving for Cairns and then will be going back to New Zealand. You can hear more about her on this week’s episode of On the Poddy (or here for mp3). We [...]

Youth Ministry: What not to do

In Kurt Johnston’s post What not to do, he talks about some principles for guiding the activities they do in their youth ministry. Here they are:
1) Is it age-appropriate? Is it over their head? Will they ‘get it?’ etc.2) Does it dishonor anybody? I don’t want to dishonor scripture, Christ, nerdy kids, jocks, tall [...]

Noel Gallagher LOVES the Socceroos

Not! See here. Can I remind Noel Gallagher that the last time Australia played England in the football (soccer) Australia won 3-1.

Ben takes a photo of himself everyday