10.31Friday Foto #36
Some people at the beach. Warm fuzzy for the name of the beach.
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Happy Reformation Day! Tim Challies is running The Third Annual Reformation Day Symposium. Here are my last two entries. This year’s entry: Don’t Steal God’s Glory.
What was at stake in the Protestant Reformation of 500 years ago? Nothing less than the Glory of God. Following are a number of posts, biographies and bible talks explaining [...]
10.30Isaiah 40
Isaiah 40 would be in my greatest hits of 2008. Song from Brothers of the Empty Tomb:
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Here are the last few verses from the passage:
27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and complain, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the LORD;
my cause is disregarded by my God”?
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is [...]
10.30RSS 100+ club
Today set a new record for RSS readers of davemiers.com - 102. What the heck is RSS? Glad you asked. Thanks for reading. Exam Tip #2: blog content that will help exam prep.
The Australian Government is handing out cash for Christmas. Rowan and a bunch of others at college have a brilliant idea on how to use this money. Watch this appeal from the Moore College Student body to give to women struggling with abortion.
More info coming…
EDIT: here is the website
10.28Exam Tips 101
Exams are coming. I’m after some tips. Got any? For starters: Don’t worry about exams.
pic from Avoca
I have a $20 iTunes voucher, and I never know how to spend them. Got some tips? What would you buy? What should I buy? I’m willing to be adventurous…
The pic is from a butchery converted into a cafe in Mittagong Mudgee…
(h/t Tim)
What a sweet day! I had a birthday party (actual birthday was 2 weeks ago) this morning @ Avoca Beach with family and a couple of friends. Good times. I have 8 more exams coming up soon. I will keep preaching this sermon to myself… any more tips? Have a good weekend.
If you haven’t noticed [...]
10.24Friday Foto #35
Some water, some grass and some trees. Warm fuzzy for name of town.
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Generation Y are the STABO Generation. STABO = Subject To A Better Offer. What does this mean? It means that Gen Y are only willing to commit to something providing they can’t find anything better to do. This means Gen Y suck at RSVPing to parties; they’re slow at registering for events (unless it’s an [...]
The Passion World Tour has come and gone. Their journey ended in Sydney last night at the Entertainment Centre with 8000 people gathering to make the name of Jesus famous. Louie Giglio spoke. Chris Tomlin and David Crowder Band played music. Sweet.
Key Verse: “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us [...]
10.21Plato - The Cave
“For Plato the realm of ideas is the realm of true knowledge. The realm of material objects is the realm of mere opinon. His famous ananlogy of the cave illustrates this. In The Republic Plato tells an imaginary story of men who have lived in a cave as prisoners since childhood. They are chained and [...]
What impact will the current global economic crisis have on the prosperity gospel? As far as I can tell, the prosperity gospel wasn’t around during the great depression. Will proponents of this doctrine tell their people whose businesses crumble that they don’t have enough faith? Will pushers of this false gospel tell their people whose [...]
Gabriella Cilmi just smashed it at the ARIA’s. Some of her tunes have an Amy Winehouse-esque, very cool for a 17 year-old. Hoping her life doesn’t pan out the same way as Amy’s. Here is the youtube vid of Gabriella Cilmi ‘Sweet About Me‘ [EDIT: they've just disabled embedding, click here to watch]. Here’s a [...]
10.19Rice Regenerate 2008
We went to Rice Regenerate last night with 500 other 20-somethings. It’s the next phase of the Rice Movement growing out of the large Rice youth rallies. “RICERegenerate is a movement aimed to see a generation of lay leaders in our churches revived, renewed, and re-ignited in their passion to serve our great God and [...]
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10.17Friday Foto #34
Greek Exam has happened… I think I may have just scraped through! We’ll wait and see. Here is a waterfall and some leaves from the North Coast of NSW.
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If you are reading this blog, I love you. No joke. I know that not everyone who reads this blog believes in Jesus. There is nothing more important. Do you want to know more? 1) Watch this video. 2) Check out www.christianity.net.au 3) Read this Biography of Jesus. 4) Contact me - if you are in [...]
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