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“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 as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.” (Sinclair Ferguson)
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)
“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 Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel…” (2 Timothy 2:8)
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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 up with a few of them in the coming weeks.
We’ll be doing it all again at Rowena’s 10 year bash in October.
Shout out to Facebook for helping to organise the event.
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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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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).
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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 thoughtful ideas on its future direction. Much of the document is the theory behind the Soul Revival youth ministry.
Having hung out with Stu at Bible School this year, I look forward to reading it again after seeing + hearing lots of his thinking embodied. GO READ IT!! There’s nowhere to leave comments on the Briefing website – so feel free to chat about it in the comments here… (pic from here)
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 my Greek New Testament. I figured this was better than simply trying to memorise the English!!
I’ve recorded myself (very) slowly reading Mark 1-4 in NASB. Feel free to use them if it’s helpful for you in preparing for the exam… or just have a laugh at the Central Coast Stoner-esque reading!