Year: 2011

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Compassion Trip to Tanzania with Colin Buchanan

Compassion do an amazing job at releasing children from poverty. Over December/January during the last 2 years readers of this blog have been part of raising just under $5000 for clean water projects in Rwanda and Northern India. I’m planning on partnering with Compassion again this Summer. Stay tuned! In the meantime, I’ll be following along with Colin Buchanan and a bunch of ministers from around Sydney as they visit Tanzania.

Click here if you can’t see the video.

You can follow along with their trip by clicking ‘LIKE’ on facebook.com/CompassionAU or following twitter.com/CompassionAU Here’s the twitter hashtag: #TZtrip

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8 Steps to Crafting a Killer Wedding Sermon

Pete Ko has a great post with some sage advice for crafting wedding sermons.

Here are the 8 steps:

  1. Keep it short.
  2. Be realistic about your aims.
  3. Be winsome, humorous, and don’t be preachy.
  4. Try and steer clear of Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter 3 Biblical submission passages.
  5. Choose instead a passage that highlights marriage themes such as love, grace, commitment etc.
  6. Preach the gospel.
  7. Personalise the wedding sermon around the couple’s courtship and relationship.
  8. Did I mention, keep it short?

Click here to read each point fleshed out.

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Free Download from LIVING DEVOTION

LIVING DEVOTION is the latest album from the St Paul’s Castle Hill music team. I like it. It’s a stripped back live recording, with some great tracks. They are currently offering a free download of the track TAKE OVER NOW via their Facebook Page.

Also check out the website for resources (guitar charts etc) and some videos of the songs from the recording.

Familiar with the album? What’s your favourite track? I think mine is So We Would Know Our God.