Scott Petty and Nicky Baker are my favourite Youth Pastors. They’re doing great work with Christ Church Youth in St Ives, Sydney. The current series they are teaching is from 1 Corinthians, Don’t Want to be a Corinthian Idiot. Check out the intro video below:
Check out the podcast. Subscribe in iTunes. Check out their archives. [...]
If you answered “yes”, you must go and check out the new 8Bit Network. I’ve been a long time fan of John Saddington and his site ChurchCrunch. ChurchCrunch has now been massively beefed up into a whole network of sites aiming to “resource the church with timely, relevant, practical, and exceptionally valuable content.” It includes [...]
Steve Kryger has a big long list. Worth a read. Worth putting into practise.
Do one thing at a time.
Do important tasks first.
Do unpleasant tasks first.
Set short-term time goals.
Turn off your email.
Turn off Facebook.
Tidy your workspace.
Allocate times to exercise.
Plan ahead.
Unsubscribe or filter unnecessary email newsletters.
Keep lists and check them off.
Know thyself.
Automate.
Set longer-term goals.
Stop being a perfectionist.
Read [...]
Best of 2009 round 1: Albums. Round 2: iPhone Apps. I’ve had an iPhone for about 4 months. It really has been a handy productivity tool, and it also makes phone calls! The following are Applications that I use most days.
Trip View Lite – super smart and super useful train (and bus + ferry) timetable. [...]
Check out this post from May. It links to some great resources available via iTunes U. In particular there is a course on Reformation Church History – MP3’s and full manuscript.
If you happen to be studying for an exam for tomorrow they could be worth a look. To maximise your time, play them back at [...]
It’s exam time. Last year I wrote a stack of posts as part of my prep. This year, I’m not sure if you’ll see any blog posts (other than this one) or not! However, yesterday I tried a little experiment on twitter. Here’s where it started: Yo #MTC Moore college peeps. Tweet what ur studying [...]
The internet can be used for great good, but also great harm. Most children know more about how to use the internet than their parents. Therefore it’s incredibly important that parents work hard at understanding the potential dangers and develop strategies to protect their children online.
Here are 10 ways for parents to protect their kids [...]
I recently started experimenting with Posterous. I use it as a way of sharing twitter pictures and videos. It’s really quick & easy to use and it’s a tidy & attractive spot to store things. Here’s my posterous account: davemiers.posterous.com
Having now used it for a couple of weeks, I think it’s much more than just [...]
Microsoft have some sweet deals on software for students. They now have their new operation system, Windows 7, available as an upgrade for only $49.95. Check out www.itsnotcheating.com.au for some action. (It’s called www.theultimatesteal.com in the US and it’s $29.99US – click on the icon in the top right corner for other countries)
I’m currently using [...]
Graham Stanton wrote a great post today about some of the dangers he’s found since using twitter. He paraphrases 1 Corinthians 6:12 – ‘Twitter is permissible, and may even be beneficial; but I will not be mastered by anything’ and then outlines his strategies for not being mastered by twitter. Here are his four points:
4. [...]
Check out this video about social media. It’s aim is to show that “Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.” Fascinating stuff.
They source Socialnomics for all the stats. My favourite quote: “Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web” – this is a good [...]
“High-quality video teaching for churches everywhere… for free!” That’s the claim from videoteaching.com – a website recently launched by LifeChurch.tv. I hope that it will be a useful resource for preaching Jesus. Check out the about page. What do you think?
They have 14 preachers providing sermons from their church to share on the site: 4 [...]
“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 [...]
