Category: life

This is Steve Reimer and me at the Mariners smashing Sydney FC 3-1 a couple of weeks ago. Hope you’re well Steve. Thanks for supporting the Mariners and not FC… and thanks even more for praying!

PRAISE:
>Praise God for his wisdom and knowledge
>The opportunity to teach Scripture in local schools

PRAYER:
>Romans 11 sermon this Sunday night
>Bring a friend night 2nite at ccecyouth (pray for follow up too)

Around the web:
Some people have called Christian Rap – CRap! But here is some reformed rap – check it yo!
New youth ministry blog
New Bathgate Baby
Ian is a cannibal

Nothing profound to say today. So after the roaring success of the last picture comp… drum roll please… Introducing… P.I.C.T.U.R.E. C.O.M.P. #.0.0.2.

1) Which well-known Sydney cafe is this?
You want a clue? Row and I were visiting my sister who lives on campus of a well-known Christian institution in Sydney. From what I know this is a popular cafe even amongst the likes of some of our coffee snobs!

Do you know the one? I gave it a double thumbs up.
2) If you know it… why is it so good? What do you like about it?

Prize for first correct answer (suburb + name of cafe) to question #1 – next time I’m there if you happen to be nearby I will buy you a coffer. To question #2 – you can buy yourself one…
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PS – issue #338 of the briefing arrived in the post today. The issue is on the prosperity gospel. I’ve read half of it already. Our Senior Pastor wrote a great article:

A different Jesus — Andrew Heard argues that the real problem with the prosperity gospel lies in its representation of Christ.

Find out more here

Tim Roediger and I have started a new youth ministry blog. It’s called The Youth Vanguard: evangelical youth ministry authors collective. You can find it here.

Tim has some ideas to do a youth ministry writers group and I had some ideas to do youth ministry blog. Basically we’ve combined the two ideas for what I think will be better than what we proposed individually. It’s early days – but we’d love you to come and check it out – and send others you know who would be keen to read it to.

Below is an extract from our about us page:

“We are a group of reformed evangelical Christians interested in the theory and practice of youth ministry, particularly in the Australian context.

We have observed that youth ministers in general don’t write much, and evangelical youth ministers write even less. Thus, our little gathering hopes to teach and encourage each other to write, and to also publish occasionally. This blog is like a sketch-pad where we can try out our thoughts and writing skills on each other and the wider world as they develop.”

Below is our first ccecyouth tv news. We played it last Friday night. It’s posted on our youth group news page. Click here if you can’t see it. Here is our YouTube channel. The plan is to do this type of thing a bit more often.

What do you think???

I’ve written a bunch of things about MySpace and youth ministry in the past (see here). This morning I had a read of the profiles of our youth groupers. Sometimes they write some stupid stuff… but some of them write some super-encouraging stuff… here’s one of them:

“Have also been going to an awesome youth group since year 7, CCECyouth. I’ve been so thankful for my time in both FFF and FOCUS, for the incredible Phat camps and for my bible study group. God’s used these three things so much in my life (and many others’) and it is literally such a Godsend to have grown up in such an amazing, God driven, Christ centred, Spirit led and bible based youth group. Not saying I haven’t struggled at times, but Christ doesn’t say everything will be easy once you become a Christian, in fact he says the opposite.”