Category: life

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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!

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17

G’day Kids, I’ve been away from the blogoverse for a week. Soooo…. Here are 17 things that have happened since the last time we met:

1) Stayed at Row’s parents’ place for long weekend (+ her dad’s bday)
2) Went to cafe at Erina and sat at TABLE 17 (guess the cafe)
3) 2nd hand book shop at Gosford Primary School – bought Uncle Tom’s Cabin and a record for Row
4) Dan and I lost in tennis to 2 old men
5) Went to cafe in another place and sat at TABLE 17 (guess the suburb)

6) Bummed around at home for a few days – watched GOAL 3 times!
7) Listened to Tim Keller talk on Justice
8) Read the Bible (not all of it… just bits)
9) Bought The Twilight of Atheism from cheap (1st hand) bookshop in Canberra
10) Reminded that over 100,000 Australians have died in wars (War Memorial)
11) Walked out of National Museum cos Row didn’t like the intro video
12) Visited Crossroads Christian church in Canberra
13) KFC for lunch!
14) Brother and sister-in-law had a baby boy
15) Row left her handbag at hospital
16) Dinner in Bondi
17) Got to hold baby when picking up Row’s handbag

17 different people must respond to this post or I will quit blogging…

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Prayer Friday #005

Welcome to PF#005. I hope that you are well and I appreciate your prayers. I’m keen to go to the Socceroos game vs Bahrain on October 11. Send me an email if you’re keen. They will be playing with their full strength squad. The photo collage is called: my week. It’s not exhuastive of my week, just the times I had my phone out to take some crazy snaps!

Praise:
>Thank God for the growth in lunch time high school Christian groups
>Every Spiritual Blessing in Christ

Prayer:
>Youth group leaders would have refreshing time off during holidays
>Term 4 youth group planning

Around the web:
Funny Missionary Dating website
Brilliant: shows inconsistency of pro-abortion world view
This guy swears a bit much!

Competition: HUGE PRIZES ON OFFER!!! Guess where each of the 9 photos in the collage were taken…