Category: life

Tomorrow is the big day rose-lovers. Today I recorded and produced the best Podcast I’ve recorded and produced all year!* I had a couple of special guests join me for the show. Lots of fun. Download it from here. Check out our new website here. Subscribe with iTunes by clicking here. Whatever you do, don’t click here.

*For those who sometimes miss my humour – it’s the only one I’ve done this year!^

^For those who sometimes miss my footnotes explaining my humour – you’ve probably missed the first footnote#

#I think they say that it’s not particularly clever humour if you have to explain it… oops.

In December I announced that our youth group website would be getting a major face-lift.

Drum roll…

Here it is: www.ccecyouth.net.

If you could take a minute to check it out – and also send through (in comments or by email) broken links or any problems you can find. If you have a number of different browsers on your computer can you just open it to see if it looks okay? (I’ve check in Firefox 2 and IE 7). Also keen to hear what it likes on an Apple.

The next week or two there are a few tweaks that still need to be made – and the address www.ccecyouth.com needs to be redirected to point at it.

I’m currently getting together a team of creative types to help develop a couple of exciting projects that we have in store…

Stay tuned for more.

ps – Prayer Friday 2007 – returning to a blog near you soon!

Some people write some pretty stupid things on MySpace. Some don’t. This quote is part of the latter. Very encouraging…

blessed amazingly by ccec. i love ccecyouth, a wonderful youth group. it’s a wonderful encouraging time each friday night (erina high school hall, 7-9.30, send me a message if you want to know more!) and there’s such a fantastic bunch of christian youth leaders. they’re all so beautiful, and they are the reason i am where i am in my christian walk. without them, i’d be lost. i love the youth group and bible study girls :) bible study is such a great time to hang out together and get into the bible, share what’s happening, and pray together. it makes the hard times so much easier to know there’s people there for you, and the good times so much more fun! loving ccec night church too! the preaching which you hear each week is so amazing and truthful to the gospel, and it is the most wonderful feeling to be sitting amongst a group of people who are so diverse and have so many different interests, but are brought together by the single most important belief in life, and are singing and praising God together.

This is number 30 in my series of Youth Ministry posts.
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The following is part of an email I’m about to send out to CCECYOUTH leaders.
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We’ve had two great meetings recently and spent a significant amount of time in the pastoral epistles (1 & 2 Timothy and Titus) reflecting on the life of the leader. Our character matters more than our competency. Our godliness matters more than our giftedness.

Lust is something that all people struggle with. Guys and girls, young and old, married and single. I’m keen to keep guarding my heart from selfishness and sexual impurity. Be encouraged to do like wise. To that end, I’ve recently started listening to Josh Harris (Senior Pastor of Covenant Life) speaking on Purity. The series is great so far. Here is the sermon section. Download the talks directly: Talk 1, Talk 2, Talk 3, Talk 4, Talk 5. These talks aren’t just for guys!! They’ve also put together a list of other resources on the same topic.

There are stacks of great resources on the Internet to help Christians fight against lust (there are also many websites set up to cause people to lust!!). The Rebulation has set up a resource page that pulls together many great ones (including John Piper).

If you’re struggling with lust – get accountable today. Speak to someone. Join up with a prayer partner or prayer triplet. Be reminded also of the forgiveness that the blood of Jesus brings – and pray that God would keep changing you from the inside out.
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If you check out any of the resources leave a comment with any reflections. Likewise – if you find any other good resources post them in the comments section.