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CJ Mahaney blogged a killer series earlier on in the year on ‘Biblical Productivity’. The Sovereign Grace crew have now packaged it together as a FREE PDF download. It’s the goods. If you’re a Christian who wants to godly and productive in the way you use your time… check it. No diggity.
Watch the video below. Shout out to Joel C for pointing out this snippet from a current beer* commercial. I think it’s about Dave Meyers the film director… but I’ll claim it!
*yo christian – if you’re under 18 don’t drink beer. if you’re 18+ be wise with ya wine.
Rowena recently finished her Diploma of Biblical Studies through Moore College and will graduate in a week. She’s found the course extremely useful in life and ministry. The email she sent around to her family is below. It’s encouraging. (Used with permission!)
Hey Hey, after like 8 and a half years (with a few breaks in-between) I have finally completed my Diploma of Biblical Studies. I’m very happy to have been able to undertake this study. In looking back over the courses I am amazed at the broad ranging biblical ideas I’ve been able to engage with as part of the program. Through the course I have touched on every book of the bible along with a range of church history, apologetics and Christian worship subjects. Through my studies I have been able to deepen my understanding of the scriptures and have grown in my appreciation of God’s purposefulness in his interaction with the world as revealed in biblical history culminating in the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. Thanks for your interest over the years in my studies shown through the various conversations we have had and in Dave’s case patience in me attending classes etc. In Rach’s case thanks in particular thanks for being a keen study partner and fellow learner. Rach now you have to finish!!!!
Well not sure what I’m going to do with myself now that this slab of study is over with? Maybe I’ll be able to come up with something later in June!!!
Keep reading your bibles and taking the opportunity to learn of God’s goodness to us as revealed in the scriptures, I encourage you to find both formal (eg courses and programs) and informal opportunities (daily quiet times) to do this.
Love Row
Very cool.
Special announcement for online friends: Rowena and I are expecting a baby! We’re really excited. Well, I’m excited and Row’s pretty uncomfortable as there are only 3.5 weeks until download day (June 10). Stay tuned for more news on Mini-Miers.
Top 20 baby names (suggestions welcome) + weekly break it down content below:
in breaking news, after 7 episodes of dan sitting on the right and dave on the left, this week they swapped!!! wow. they talk about their love for rangas. if you’re a ranga, or have a photo of you with a ranga, send it in for our new ranga gallery, launching next week.
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I like soccer. But Rugby League is okay. Tonight I watched my first League game for a while. The Bulldogs (the team I go for) were denied a last-ditch win by a stupid decision by the video ref to the Dragons. Ah well… still a great game! As exciting as the game was, the news this week in the Rugby League world that will be remembered will be about 4 Corners, Matt Johns, “Claire” from Christchurch, half the Cronulla Sharks team and the ‘consensual’ sex romp they had in 2002. Most of the Australian bloggers I read have commented on it. Below is a snippet from Phillip Jensen on “League Hypocrisy”. It’s brilliant. Go read the whole thing in full.
“There used to be a saying that consenting adults can do whatever they like with and to each other. That is, until the problem of the rugby league players in Christchurch was aired on the Four Corners Show. The ethic of consent taught by the league’s ethical feminists does not understand the nature of human corruption. Under the right social pressure people will consent to all manner of harmful and damaging behaviour. […]
Some of the leaders of the code are saying that group sex, even when consensual, is wrong. Good on them. But the code’s ethics lecturer is saying anything is permissible provided it is with consent. She seems to have no problem with pornography – as if that industry is going to teach young men to “respect” women! […]
Men need to do better than respect women, or gain consent to use them or even accept their offers to be used. Men need to be taught the meaning of genuine love and the conquest of love over lust. For love does not use the other person but seeks what is in the other person’s best interest. If we want footballers to be role models of morality, a questionable confusion of categories caused by our media celebrity hype, they need to be shown how to enjoy a real and loving relationship of marriage and family life.”
Go read the whole thing in full. Seriously.
Check out the way the early Christians (written to in Hebrews) responded in the face of a financial crisis: “32Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.” (Hebrews 10:32-34)
If you’re a Christian, your perspective in life is larger than the person who doesn’t follow Jesus. That’s why the Hebrew Christians were able to rejoice in their suffering – they knew they had a better and lasting possession in Jesus. I think that Christians likewise today are better placed to deal with financial catastrophes. Our hope isn’t in gold, silver, stocks, bonds, property or any stuff here and now – our hope is in the inheritance made secure through the resurrection of Jesus.