Category: life

Aaron has made the move away from ugly MySpace and joined the blogger community. Awesome! Go over and say g’day. He has popped up a few time on eternal weight of glory: check them out here, here and here.

Aaron likes long walks on the beach, collecting stamps, riding uni-cycles and playing with guns at the Army reserves. He’s a godly young man and a fantastic youth group leader. (If you want any more of his details I can pass them on!!)

His blog address: plunkenator.blogspot.com

He already has some good posts he’s transferred from his MySpace blog… so check it out.

(Here’s his ugly MySpace blog if you want to compare)

Praise God. One of our prayer points from last Friday was answered… our Dentist didn’t kill us! In fact he was very good. Row currently sounds like a boxer when she speaks (she had one of her wisdom teeth pulled out) and I’m enjoying super-clean teeth. The dentist told me that I’m unique. 2 reasons: 1) I haven’t been to the dentist since I was a kid and I’ve only got minor problems and 2) My wisdom teeth are prefect and will stay intact.

Just call me ‘Solomon‘

How wise are you??

Wow… this is the 10th Anniversary of Prayer Friday! If you haven’t been here for long you can check out the last 9: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, there and here. Good times. Thanks for praying and I would love to know how to pray for you. Ephesians 3:20-21 says: Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Wow! We have a big God much bigger than we can imagine.

PRAISE:
>The last few weeks of ccecyouth – new converts + good times
>This Sunday is Thanksgiving Sunday (I call it Turkey Sunday) at church. Thank God for the past year at CCEC and the way that the Kingdom is growing here on the Central Coast.

PRAYER:
>Our Dentist won’t kill us: my first visit in like 15 years. Pray more for Row – she will be getting another wisdom tooth ripped out – they’ve had her on drugs this week (not pot) in prep for the torture on Monday. She’s been a bit sick from it this week.
>summerfest – an urban mission event that our church runs in jan. prep happening now

Around the web:
Comments are still raging from PF#009
optical illusions
the youth vanguard
this dude is crackers! (h/t CraigS)
Watch Your Life and Doctrine by CJ Mahaney (h/t JT)
Driscoll on Haggard (good wake-up call)

almost forgot… $NZ4Billion for the person who can guess where the photo is taken… hint: the dog isn’t real…

mars hills church music
garage hymnal
sam chan sermon online
socceroos verses bahrain match highlights
the weight of glory sermon
katie noonan hallelujah
dave miers
aron ottignon
“Blue King Brown” download “come and check your head”
“come and check your head”+download
noel gallagher socceroos
“baptist church” +calvinism news local sports obituaries -greensboro
“dave miers” blog
benidiction quotes
eternalweightofglory.blogspot.com
eternalweightofglory
“David Miers” “eternal weight of glory”
eternal weight
weight of god’s glory
dave miers (a whole bunch of times – and it wasn’t me!)
lunchtime death at gymea high school
eternalweightofglory blogspot
the weight of glory audio
chaplain kerry nettle
The words of the benidiction
David Miers

ps – they weren’t all google… but most of them were

pps – for a prize of $US3Million guess where the above photo was taken

ppps – the following posts have comments running hot:
Jesus’ Resurrection: Of First Importance (23 comments)
Picture Comp #002 (22 comments)
Prayer Friday #009 (9 comments)
How to trick a dentist… (8 comments)

Next Monday morning I will be making my first trip to the dentist since the 1980s. During the next 5 days I would like to do whatever I can to make the visit a good one. So…

Do you have any tips on how to trick a dentist?

(I’m after serious ones… but funny ones will be fun to read too!)

Last night I watched a sermon by Mark Driscoll in the Vintage Jesus series at Mars Hill Church Seattle. The title was Did Jesus really rise from the dead?. It was good to watch him preach and see some of the how of his preaching. But the content was gold! Today I’ve been reflecting on how the resurrection of Jesus is of first importance.

3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 1 Cor 15:3-8

>>Jesus died for our sins
>>He was buried
>>He was raised
>>He appeared

We too often leave the resurrection of Jesus out of our gospel – what a stupid thing to do! Liberals will try to re-interpret the resurrection of Jesus into a spiritual resurrection… but Jesus rose – physically… and we who have our trust in him have a physical resurrection to look forward to because Jesus first rose.

Driscoll said that it ought not just be Easter Sunday that we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus – but every Sunday! They also take communion each week at church as they are reminded of Jesus’ death on their behalf.

Our practise at church is to have communion every 6 weeks. It’s more likely to be once every 10 weeks though! I think we ought to do it more often. Is it weird to the outsider??? I don’t think so… it’s a marvellous opportunity to preach the gospel each week!

What do you think? How often does your church do it? How often do you think you ought to do it?

My vote for best church website is Mars Hill Church Seattle. It’s got loads of free stuff on there. I’m not going to link to it all here. Go and check it out. They have sermons, gospel class stuff, announcements, music, magazine, doctrinal statements, videos, blogs, maps, members section forum, hyperlinks, links, text, contact page… you name it they’ve got it!

What do you think?
What are the criteria for a good church website?
Put any good examples in the comments…