Sick of Religion - Vox Pop

Check out the Vox Pop video from Tuesday night’s talk Sick of Religion.
Q. What does the Coast think about religion?

Stay tuned for the mp3 and video from Mark Driscoll’s second talk.
Shout out to Dan and Jono for making the video. This post is originally from here.

Sick of Religion?

Last night was the second night of Driscoll on the Coast. Jon Baldwin, Mike McCarthy and Nicole Walkinshaw did a great job with music. Mark Driscoll spoke on Sick of Religion? The talk on Monday night was for Christians and this talk was a suitable one to bring friends to hear.

He spoke with great humour [...]

Lovin’ the Coast - Vox Pop

Check out the Vox Pop video from last night’s talk Lovin’ the Coast.
Q1 What do you love about the Coast? Q2 What do you think the Coast needs?
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Stay tuned for the mp3 (and maybe video) from Mark Driscoll’s frist talk.
Shout out to Dan and Jono for making the video. This post is originally from here.

Lovin’ the Coast

Driscoll on the Coast night #1. Wow! What an incredible night!! Mark Driscoll spoke on Lovin’ the Coast.  He spoke on Exodus 20 (+ a stack of other Bible references) and the 10 commandments. He spent his whole time on #1 (You shall have no other gods before me) and #2 (you shall not make [...]

RICE Rally 2008

We had a killer time last night at RICE Rally 2008! The music was great. We played the largest ever game of King Caractacus. Sam Mak and Steve Chong did a great job MCing. Mark Driscoll preached a cracker sermon on Jesus’ death and resurrection. 500+ teenagers claimed to put their trust in Jesus!! Check [...]

Jesus Life Culture Design #11

Mark Driscoll is in town this week. Media Reports: smh; sydney anglicans 1; and sydney anglicans 2. There are just 2 tickets left to Sick of Religion and about 50 left to Lovin’ the Coast. Register online. I’m looking forward to hearing Mark speak a number of times over the week. Three things I value [...]

Michael Guglielmucci admits faking cancer

Michael Guglielmucci was a Pastor from Planetshakers Church in Melbourne. He is known for his stuggle with cancer over the last two years. Earlier this year he released a song, Healer, about his struggle on the latest Hillsong live album. The thing is, he never had cancer. He has admitted to faking his cancer, deceiving [...]

Is sex more like a Porsche than a Datsun?

John Dickson has 3 books that every teenagers needs to read: Hell Of A Life; A Sneaking Suspicion; and Hanging In There. The following is a famous illustration (I recently used in a talk) of John’s from A Sneaking Suspicion about how we should view sex…

“My first car was an orange Datsun 1200. It got me [...]

95% of tickets sold + no more password

95% of Driscoll on the Coast tickets have been sold. There are only a few tickets left for SICK OF RELIGION (Tue 26 Aug) and a handful for LOVIN’ THE COAST (Mon 25 Aug). The password has now been removed and the tickets are freely available. Tickets are only $10 for each night. HURRY – [...]

Re:Jesus Festival 08

The Re:Jesus Festival 08 has just begun at Sydney University. The 2 week festival is run by the Evangelical Union with a solid line up of events, speakers and musicians.

They are effectively using different media including: chalking; posters; t-shirts; video; web; and word of mouth, to talk about Jesus on campus. Pray for it. If [...]

Jesus Life Culture Design #10

Big weekend in sport: Usain Bolt of Jamaica smashes the world record in 100m Olympic sprint final; Grant Hackett came so close; Michael Phelps becomes the greatest Olympic Athlete of all-time; Stephanie Rice proves she’s a better swimmer than her ex-boyfriend; the A-League and English Premier League kick off; and DAVE MIERS scores his 3rd [...]

Death By Love: Letters from the Cross

Death By Love will certainly make it onto my Cross of Jesus reading list. It’s a new book coming out from Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears. It is a book of letters to real people with real issues explaining the implications of Jesus’ work on the cross. Watch the video below. Death By Love Website. [...]

Any path will do?

I’m puzzled by this sign that I saw outside a church today: “Any path will do if you know where you are going?”. I’m not sure how to read it. Is it saying you can get to heaven/God by any path: Jesus; Muhammad; Buddha; Krishna; Rael? Or: it doesn’t matter where life takes you now [...]

The Idol of Sport

Let the games begin… Australia is a nation infatuated with sport. We are tribal about our sporting teams, whether it’s: Manly Sea-Eagles, Sydney FC, The Swans, The Tahs, The Wallabies or the Australian Swim team. In Australia we follow sport like a religion – we follow sports people like gods.

Don Bradman, Cathy Freeman, Ian Thorpe [...]