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Archive - June, 2009
GENEVA Church Planting Network
GENEVA is a new church planting network launching in Australia December ’09. Mark Driscoll will be speaking via satellite. I like the name. Stay tuned for more details.
(h/t Andrew Heard via Dan Godden’s twitter)
Piper on Cultural Relevance
John Piper doesn’t have a TV and doesn’t go to the movies very often. I’m all for godly engagement with culture in preaching Jesus, but this article from Piper is helpful in keeping the main thing the main thing. Here’s a snippet:
“If you want to be relevant, say, for prostitutes, don’t watch a movie with a lot of tumbles in a brothel. Immerse yourself in the gospel, which is tailor-made for prostitutes; then watch Jesus deal with them in the Bible; then go find a prostitute and talk to her. Listen to her, not the movie. Being entertained by sin does not increase compassion for sinners.”
Go read the whole article.
episode 11: giant secret from dan
special guest sam hilton from hunter bible church. we talk about michael jackson. some other things. at the end of the episode a giant secret from dan is revealed. you don’t want to miss it.
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Don’t blame it on the boogie
Michael Jackson died today. We had The Jacksons’ Don’t blame it on the boogie playing as we walked back down the aisle after getting married. (Here’s the song from the way in)
Pastor Dad by Mark Driscoll
Here’s a new free eBook from Mark Driscoll, Pastor Dad. “Every dad is a pastor. The important thing is that he is caring for his flock well. This book by Pastor Mark Driscoll looks at the ways that a father can raise his children well.” I just became a dad, I’ve had a quick skim, and plan to read it after my exams. Any other fatherhood book recommendations?
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Samuel Gallery: Week 1
Little Samuel just turned 1… week old. We love this kid to bits and have managed to take 435 photos of him in that time. Lucky for you, we’re not going to make you sit through all of them! So here’s a selection of 36 that we like and hope you like too.
See below for gallery. They’re in reverse order (ie click on last one & work backwards).
Samuel David Miers
Introducing Samuel David Miers. Circa 14 June 2009. More exclusive pics coming soon…
episode 10: we got rick rickroll’d
we got rickrill’d. we spoke about the blood of goats vs the blood of Jesus – Jesus is better. top 5 movies that could have samuel l jackson and 400 snakes. wow. what an episode. miss it or die. seriously.
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episode 9: this isn’t an episode
episode 9 was stolen. this isn’t a replacement. we’re just letting you know how good it was. www.fervr.net + www.richardbeeston.com + www.twitter.com/eugenehor
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Rice Revolution 2009
Rice Revolution 2009 – the Jesus Revolution… is coming. Website | Registration | Twitter
venue | moore theological college, 1 king street newtown
speaker | eugene hor – featuring | revolutionband
time | 10am-4pm saturday 18 july 2009 – price | $3
evangelism trainers | dave miers + dan au
Launch video below:
Doubt vs Unbelief
From Alistair McGrath (quoted in Kent & Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Family):
Doubt is natural within faith. It comes because of our human weakness and fraility. [...] Unbelief is the deciion to live your life as if there is no God. It is a deliberate decision to reject Jesus Christ and all that he stands for. But doubt is something quite different. Doubt arises within the context of faith. It is a wistful longing to be sure of the things in which we trust. But it is not and need not be a problem.
In John 20:27, Jesus says to Thomas to “Stop doubting and believe” (NIV). The word behind ‘doubting’ is the word ‘unbelieving’. Therefore ‘doubting’ is probably not the most helpful translation. So I think that McGraith is right in not having ‘doubt’ as the opposite of ‘belief’. (NASB, HCSB, ESV all go for ‘unbelief’ words.)
Claire De Lune – Claude Debussy
Today is our 6th wedding anniversary. Row is still my dream girl. Love love. This is the song we had play six years ago when Rowena walked down the isle.
It’s Claire De Lune by Claude Debussy. This version is from Ocean’s 11 and played by The Philadelphia Orchestra. (Here’s another stripped-back piano version.)
Break it Down #11
Breaking news. Newtown. Sydney. Australia. Dave Miers gets a credit in his Greek exam! That’s not a typo. If you happened to be walking down King St on Friday afternoon, you’d already know this… thanks for the high five! Giddy up.
We had dinner with our good friends Marty and Trine on Friday night (pic above). Marty is also uber-smart and helps me with Greek each week. Shout out.
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Matt Chandler is preaching on the Central Coast
…for one night only: Wednesday 26 August 2009. (He’ll also be at a pastor’s conference during the day). Chandler is the Lead Pastor of The Village Church in Texas. Scroll down a bit for 2 videos of Chandler preaching and 3 reasons I value his preaching:
- He preaches on the high school ministry retreat
- From video 1 – he’s an engaging story teller
- From video 2 – he preaches Jesus
See below for the 2 vids…
YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace
“In the year 3000, YouTube, Twitter & Facebook will merge into 1 super time-wasting site called YouTwitFace.” – Conan O’Brien (h/t Hayesy via tweetski). It’s easy to waste time online! True dat. There’s even been a bit of a trend in some tech-embracing churches to encourage twittering during the sermon. Last week, Josh Harris wrote a good counter piece on why he’d be discouraging his congregation from tweeting during the sermon and John Piper, likewise, had some good gear on the “difference between communion with God and commenting on communion with God.” Wise words of caution.
Here’s some more gold from Piper on why and how he will be tweeting:
I see two kinds of response to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others.
One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul’s capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought to be living it. So boycott them and write books (not blogs) about the problem.
The other response says: Yes, there is truth in all of that, but instead of boycotting, try to fill these media with as much provocative, reasonable, Bible-saturated, prayerful, relational, Christ-exalting, truth-driven, serious, creative pointers to true greatness as you can.
His response to social media reminds me of my #2 reason for blogging.
Don’t be a twitface.
7 Keys To Starting A Movement
This is a flippin’ awesome video from one of my favourite blogs, Ragamuffinsoul.com:
Smile. Now go and read Los’ 7 Keys To Starting A Movement based on the video…
Killcare Babymoon
Anton says that there are two types of Babymoons, one after the baby is born, and one before the baby is born. We went for the latter. We had a really relaxing long weekend and now have 8 days until download day! Can’t wait…
Here’s the tweets from the bm:
- Babymoon update 7 – 40 hrs sleep in 4 nites! 11 episodes of West Wing. 1 car broken into. 1 baby still in tummy. 1way 1truth 1life = Jesus.1:41 PM Jun 1st from web
- babymoon update 6 – West Wing series 1 episode 6.5:52 PM May 31st from web
- babymoon update 5 – watching West Wing Series 1 Episode 1… Where will this end??12:10 PM May 31st from web
- Babymoon 4 – sweet leb dinner on king st.Car broken into @danielgodden mac stolen. Voddy lost. Cops tackle graffiti kid. Justice. Now bed.1:27 AM May 31st from web
- babymoon update 3 – just bought milk with use-by date the same as baby due-by date. Get ready…7:12 PM May 29th from web
- Babymoon update 2 – we just spotted 2 whales off Killcare beach… They might be having their own babymoon soon! ;)2:18 PM May 29th from web
- babymoon update 1 – just had 12+ hours sleep!!! Last time for 20years???1:19 PM May 29th from web
Goodbye May 09 | Hello June 09
Welcome to ‘Goodbye Hello’. It’s a new monthly feature on dmdc. It will probably change your life. Or not. June is the month with about a millison family birthdays (+ our wedding anniversary and the arrival of mini-Miers). Here’s my smashing magazine desktop calendar for June (2nd place was this cactus one):
May 2009 blogedy blog
- May 09 = 8% less hits than April 09
- May 09 = 27% more hits than May 08
- May 09 #1 post: Break it Down #10
- May 09 #2 post: Tedashii – Identity Crisis
- May 09 #3 post: SNAPSHOT – Saunders + Au + Huynh
- May 09 #4 post: Rice Regenerate Praise – Surrender
- May 09 #5 post: Rusty the Narcoleptic dog
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