The Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House, Joern Utzon, has died in Copenhagen. What an incredible piece of architecture!
[Reuters: Jason Reed]
Archive - November, 2008
Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy
I’ve been doing some work in Ecclesiastes this week. I’m sure this video ties in.
(h/t Los)
Jesus Life Culture Design #25
This is the 25th episode of JLCD. Awesome. Is it worthwhile? Do you ever look at the links below? Suggestions for new features? Hope you’re having a killer weekend. BinJC.
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Printing 1947
Have you just finished school or uni? Looking for careers advice? Consider printing:
(h/t i love typography)
Katie Noonan – Blackbird
This is from Katie Noonan’s latest album ‘Blackbird: The Music Of Lennon and McCartney’. Challenge: name a better singer (leave a link to youtube evidence in the comments).
On the Poddy
Check out www.onthepoddy.com – it is seriously the BEST podcast I’ve come across.
Guests over the 2 year series include: Andrew Heard, Nicole Maloney, REVIVE, Ben Lee, Paul Dale, A New Zealander, Andrew H from Matcham, Tim Baldwin, Jono Vink, Jodie McNeill, Tammy and the Wolverines, Garage Hymnal, Dale Kerrigan, Con Campbell, Josh Griffin, The Skit Guys, Dan Godden and Dave Miers.
Youthwork YMC 08 – Internet Ministry Workshop
Here is the audio from a workshop that Gus Cameron and I ran today at the Youthworks Youth Ministry Conference 08. Day 1 was a good day. Two highlights: 1) Josh Apieczonek’s talk on Loving the Unloved and 2) Having dinner with Richard, Jake and Andre who came all the way from New Zealand for the conference.
Both sessions were the same | Session 1 (mp3) | Session 2 (mp3)
Free Money For New Lives – Promo DVD
Here is the Free Money for New Lives Promo vid. Pass it around. Get behind it.
(h/t CraigS)
How to run a meeting that doesn’t suck
Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv, did a series of posts last week on “Running Effective Meetings”. If you’re part of a church and have been involved in running meetings, admit it, you’ve probably run sucky meetings.
Have a read of the following posts and suck less:
Jesus Life Culture Design #24
Yo bro, the mo had to go, but you can still give it some dough, so go! Put it this way, remaining married for the rest of November was more important to me than cultivating the 3 hairs above my lip. Hope you’re having a killer weekend. Peaceout.
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Friday Foto #39
You’ve been waiting for it. I’ve received email after email requesting a photo, and comment after comment from strangers impressed by my moustache growing abilities. It’s quite bushy, no really, it’s just blonde and hard to see from a distance (though it now has a 6.5m visibility threshold). Go on… give my Mo some money!
[click for full and glorious portrait]
Basics of Verbal Aspect – Con Campbell
All exams are finished! Giddy up. This is really a post reminding me to do some holiday reading. Currently, I like Con Campbell because of his jazz. I’m psyching myself up to love him for his contribution to Biblical Greek grammar!
Con has a new book out – he guest blogged about it on the Zondervan Academic blog. It’s on Verbal Aspect. I’m hoping that reading the 5 posts below will be a good primer.
- Verbal aspect: what is it, and why does it matter?
- Verbal Aspect: what it is and what it isn’t
- Verbal aspect and the aorist indicative
- Verbal aspect and the present indicative
- Verbal aspect and exegesis
p.s. – I passed greek this year!!
It’s in sight…
Mission – Köstenberger
Mission – Köstenberger (doc). This is the ‘Mission’ chapter from the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. It’s basically the same as the summary in ‘Salvation to the End of the Earth’ by O’Brien and Köstenberger. So you get 250 pages summarised into 4. Sweet.
If you’re not about to sit an exam on this stuff, have a read any way. It’s good. If you have no idea who Jesus is – this website is a good start. (sxc pic)
An Evangelical Rationale for Social Action
An Evangelical Rationale for Social Action (pdf) by Michael Hill. “By his sacrificial service on the cross (Jesus) revealed God’s standard for all to imitate. He modelled true humanity in his humility and selfabasement before God and his self-giving service… to his neighbours.”
“The reality is that evangelism will lead to conversion and conversion will lead to a new creation and that new creation will oblige people to be involved in social action.” sxc pic
Reuben 3 – Dave 0
The Mariners won last night – we’re now sitting in second… giddy up!! Reuben came up to watch. It was Reuben, Llyeton Hewitt and 5 other random Adelaide fans against 8000 Central Coast supporters! Read Reuben’s match review.
The Mariners may have won 3-0, but Reuben is definitely beating me in the Mo-Stakes. Believe it or not, in the picture above we both have moustaches. He is clearly winning 3-0. Stay tuned for an extreme close-up of my masterpiece. GIVE MONEY TO MY MO!
What can we know for certain?
“The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine’s epistemology, or theory of knowledge. He saw that revelation is the necessary condition for all knowledge. As Plato argued that to escape the shadows on the cave wall the prisoner must see things in the light of day, so Augustine argued that the light of the divine revelation is necessary for knowledge.
[...] When Augustine speaks of revelation, he is not speaking of biblical revelation alone. He is also concerned with “general” or “natural” revelation. Not only are the truths found in Scripture dependent on God’s revelation, but all truth, including scientific truth is dependent on divine revelation.”
R.C. Sproul – The Consequence of Ideas. p58-59 + sxc pic
Confessions by Augustine
“I seek thee, O Lord, in the faith that you gave me. The time has come to call to mind my past sins. My mother followed Christ, yet I was not baptised. I shunned the path of friendship and pursued the passion of fornication. I, with other young scoundrels, committed the sin of theft in stealing some pears. I was captivated by the vanity of the theatre.
But I chanced upon Cicero’s ‘Hortensius’, and discovered philosophy. I studied, too, thy Holy Scripture, and saw something sublime. I fell among the followers of Mani who spoke of Jesus Christ, yet hung on foolish questions. I lusted after empty fame, and took to the false religion of “liberal arts”. I had a mistress, without lawful marriage. I happily consulted with astrologers.
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