God Loves Us

“The cross is the heart of the gospel; it makes the gospel good news. Christ died for us; He has stood in our place before God’s judgment seat; He has borne our sins. God has done something on the cross which we could never do for ourselves. But God does something to us as well [...]

Remember Jesus Christ

“I fear that the cross, without ever being disowned, is constantly in danger of being dismissed from the central place it must enjoy, by relatively peripheral insights that take on far too much weight. Whenever the periphery is in danger of displacing the center [sic], we are not far removed from idolatry.” (Don Carson)

“Remember Jesus [...]

10 Year High School Reunion

Good times in Terrigal last night at the Gosford High School Class of 1998 10 Year Reunion. It was really good. I thought it could be a weird time, but it wasn’t! It was very cool to catch up with peeps I haven’t seen for yonkers and have some great convo’s. I’ve arranged to catch [...]

Jesus Life Culture Design #16

Tonight is the Gosford High School Class of 1998 10 Year Reunion. Should be fun. It will be good to turn Facebook stalking into actual conversations. Everyone in 1998 had Green Day’s Time of Your Life as their year 12 song. The vid is below. Peaceout.

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Friday Foto #31

We went to see Mike McCarthy launch his new album, ‘The Harrowing Account of John WIlliam Tate’, at The Basement on Monday night. Good night, good album. We also enjoyed Guava and the first band (I can’t remember their name).

[click for full light spectacular]
EDIT: The first act was Lissa Kukura (click to listen)

The place of youth ministry - past, present and future

Stu Crawshaw has just had his paper, Moving beyond the shock absorber: The place of youth ministry—past, present and future, published on the Briefing website. I read his original and heard it presented at the 2006 Theology of Youth Ministry Conference. It’s brilliant! He has profound insights on the historical movements within youth ministry, and [...]

How to ‘read’ the Bible in its original language

Our Greek exam is 3 weeks away. We need to be able to translate a number of chunks from anywhere in Mark 1-4. To help familiarise myself with the text, I’ve been listening to the New American Standard Bible (the NASB is a clunky translation… perfect for our 1st year translations), while following along in [...]

Reality Bites

Christ Church St Ives began a new series last Sunday night, Reality Bites. It’s a four part series on Truth, Money, Sex and Forgiveness given by Baden Stace. Each week is a good week to bring a friend to hear more about Jesus. Check out the 645 sermon podcast to hear the series or come [...]

How Great Is Our God

It’s only a month until the Passion World Tour hits Sydney. Tix are sold out. Here is Louie Giglio’s talk from the How Great is Our God tour to whet your appetite. Part 1:

Part 2:

Youthsurge & Garage Hymnal team up

Youthsurge & Garage Hymnal have teamed up to change the world in 2009. Here’s a snippet from today’s media release: Youthsurge and Garage Hymnal are teaming up to shatter conceptions of what bible-based youth ministry looks and sounds like. In 2009 the two groups are planning to raise the bar for evangelical youth events, with [...]

One Simple Gospel

“Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgement for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.”

Quote from Tim Keller from Redeemer. Pic from sxc.hu

Jesus Life Culture Design #15

Just finishing up a two week break from college. It’s now business time. Only 4 weeks until end of year Greek - I’ve been working hard… but need to work harder!! My prediction for tonight’s Football game: Central Coast Mariners 3 vs Melbourne Victory 1. Hope you’re having a killer weekend.

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Friday Foto #30

I snapped this bad boy on Wednesday night after some intense greek study at a cafe in Terrigal. Warm fuzzy for the name of the beach near the 2 lights to the right.

[click it for full moonyness]

Ahoy!

Don’t forget that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Defending the Rights of the Unborn

I hate abortion. And so I am encouraged by the work of Christian Pastor John Piper in defending the rights of the unborn. Likewise the Abort73 website is doing a great job in standing up for the helpless. In Victoria, some changes to decriminalise abortion have been passed through the Lower House, but still need [...]

Graffiti Wall

Smashing Magazine have just posted a tribute to graffiti with 53 killer graffiti artworks. I added 11 black squares to make them all into a collage. Click it for crazy bigness.

Driscoll on the Coast - Podcast

Mark Driscoll spoke on the NSW Central Coast, Australia during August. MP3’s and Videos are now available. Included in the Driscoll on the Coast Podcast are Driscoll’s two talks and a number of songs from each night. Subscribe via RSS | Subscribe in iTunes

From night #1 - Lovin’ the Coast

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What is man that you are mindful of him

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him [...]

Legend Alone - Mashup trailer

This is a mashup trailer for “Home Alone” (1990) using the sound from “I am Legend” (2007) trailer.Very clever… there are lots of similarities between Kevin McCallister and Robert Neville!

(h/t marko)

Jesus Life Culture Design #14

Currently working on a Genesis essay. Here’s a quote from Wenham that won’t make the cut, but is still worth a read: “The size and complexity of the universe as we know it is beyond the imaginings of the ancients, yet they worshipped and adored the creator of the little world they knew. How much [...]