Read, remember and pray

Tonight I spoke about New Year’s Resolutions. The most popular NYR for Christians is to read the Bible and pray more throughout the new year. What is it that will help you to follow through with this resolution?
In response to Psalm 119 it’s having a heart that treasures God, His Word and obeying it more [...]

Extreme Scripture Memory

Dr. Andrew Davis suggests that there are numerous advantages of memorising whole books of the Bible as opposed to individual verses. One of the key things that he says is that it’s easy to take verses out of context when remembering them in isolation. (I think there are verses in the Navigators system that do [...]

How Can Christians Explain Truth to Others?


Hiding God’s Word in your heart

I’m preaching on Psalm 119 this Sunday @ ccecnitechurch. In it the Psalmist is deeply passionate about the word of God. Rejoice, delight, recount, obedience, praise, understanding, wonder, zeal and love are some of his responses to the word.
I’ve been challenged to “not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the [...]

Johnston Christmas 2007


Miers Christmas 2007


Jesus - King and Saviour


Christmas Issue of J-Walk

This is our biggest issue of J-walk ever! It’s my last one as editor. To be honest… I didn’t do much editing at all. I wrote the editorial. So… it’s my last editorial. Alex Hartley has now begun editing j-walk. This is good… I’m excited about some of the plans for the magazine next year.
Here [...]

Joga Bonito

Did you see THE game? Best ever? Relive the highlights below.Missed it? Watch video 2 & 3 below… or video 1 for just the goals.
Central Coast Mariners V Sydney FC - Goals - 22dec07

CC Mariners V Sydney FC - 1st Half Highlights - 22dec07

CC Mariners V Sydney FC - 2nd Half Highlights - 22dec07

I think [...]

Central Coast Mariners 4 Sydney FC 5

What a game!! Good times with some family 2nite at the footy. Record crowd (17,500+). Probably record score. 2 red cards. Mariners 2-0, Sydney 2-2, Mariners 3-2, Sydney 4-3, Mariners 4-4, Sydney 5-4. The referee was pretty bad. But super entertaining match on beautiful Central Coast Summer’s night.
(I can’t link to any match reports because [...]

Jack Miller on Prayer & Preaching

“Basically I am convinced that men who do not make praying their first priority in life and ministry should not preach or pastor. As preachers they will be confusing models of a Christian man, and as shepherds they will not show willingness to die for the sheep…As we seek faith and pray together, the power [...]

Free youth ministry resources

Schmoyer smashes it with a years worth of freebies. Had a quick scan down the list - there could be some helpful stuff there.

Osama Lovely, Eichmann Banal

Chris Mayes has been churning out the blog posts this month. He’s got a new name for his blog: A Disorder of Things; a new header: above; and been writing some good stuff. He’s in the middle of a top 10 albums of 2007 and I found his latest post on Hicks and bin Laden [...]

A whole new world

(h/t two first names)