Author: Dave Miers

My name is Dave Miers. I love Jesus, and I’m passionate about using new mediums to communicate the timeless message of Christ crucified and risen. I currently serve the persecuted church through my work with Open Doors Australia.
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Stolen

Some idiot broke into Row’s parents’ car today during their day off while enjoying a picnic with some friends from England. Row’s handbag was in there – so her wallet is gone (and all the junk in there!) as well as her phone and Bible. This arvo we have been ringing banks and telephone companies to cancel stuff and so forth. I left one of the lunchtime groups today early to go make phone calls etc… upon driving home I was secretly hoping someone would be there so that I could bash them up!!

Thankfully for them (and me) they weren’t!

I pray that they would read Row’s Bible.

I pray that I would take Jesus’ words seriously.

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Elizabeth Bennet is Hot!

Row is introducing me to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. We are watching the BBC miniseries together. I have fought it off for many years and now I have finally succumbed. Row has for a long time been in love with Mr. Darcy – I am now falling in love with the delightful Elizabeth Bennet!

Elizabeth Bennet is “[t]he 20-year-old second sister, and the protagonist of the story. She is her father’s favourite and inherits his intelligence and wit. She is generally regarded as one of the most endearing and popular female protagonists in English literature.” (From here)

Endearing. She is a dish!!

What do you think???

Girls are more than welcome to comment too… but not too much from the P and P fans who got here based on their daily google search for new content on their cult movie!

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Picture Comp #001

New feature of eternal weight of glory. These will happen irregularly when I can’t think of anything to say.

Question: Where is the gnome?
BIG prizes on offer…

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Prayer Friday #006

Yes I know it’s Saturday… but here is the latest Prayer Friday. Thanks for praying. Would love to know how to pray for you.

Praise:
>The safe arrival of my new nephew
>The Mariners beating Sydney FC last night!

Prayer:
>Term 4 of ccecyouth
>Discipline in life and ministry
>Please pray for Brie Vink who has not been well and is in hospital in Bunda. She has probably had malaria. (Child of one of our link missionaries)

I have a new design for this blog. What do you think? Still got a couple of things to do… but spent some time playing with it today while Row was hanging out with friends. Suggestions?

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Youth Ministry: loving God and teenagers

I love youth ministry. There are two key elements to youth ministry. God. Teenagers. Loving youth ministry involves loving teenagers (the ‘youth’ bit) and loving God (the ‘ministry’ bit). I love teenagers. I love God.

It’s my hope that this blog would include some of my insights and experiences of youth ministry as well as comments from others with a love for God and teenagers.

A CALL: If you know of any bloggers who are involved in youth ministry and/or keen to talk about it – send them my way!!! I’m particularly keen for those in the Australian context… but not exclusively.

MY YOUTH MINISTRY POSTS:
I will keep updating this when new ones come

So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us. (1Thess 2:8 esv)

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Lo and behold

G’day Kids. In this space only a couple of days ago I threatened to leave the blogiverse unless 17 different people commented on my post. Well… with the comment of my brother I reached 17 different people (with a total of 43 comments all together… and believe it or not 17 of them were me!!). Thanks to the 17 of you for contributing…Let the blog roll on…

Tonigh Row and I went out for dinner with her parents at Erina Fair (big prizes on offer for guessing the food establishment)… and lo and behold we were given table number 18… so close to our magical number 17! We did, however, get number 17 for our dessert order (but I think Row arranged that!).

THE MARINERS: are playing vs Bling FC tomorrow (Friday) night (the picture in the middle of the collage is Mariners logo made out of some lego block things!). Kick-off is 8pm. I’m going. Do you want to come? Send me an sms or email… we’ll probably have a BBQ at my place b4 hand.

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Mars Hill Church Music

Last week during my week off I downloaded a whole bunch of congregational songs from Mars Hill Church Seatle (where Mark Driscoll is senior pastor). I’ve currently got 41 tracks, and there might be about 100 in total. They are available from here and most of them are original Mars Hill songs or reworked hymns recorded live during their church services (the aduio quality is pretty impressive). The ones I’ve enjoyed the most are by one of their bands called Brothers of the Empty Tomb (B.E.T in their catalogue)

Questions:
What’s the best song introduced in your church during the past year?
What’s your all time favourite church song?
What Bible themes or passages ought songs be written about?

Breaking news: eternal weight of glory (my blog) is this month’s blog of the month on thefountainside blog … yessss!