Category: life

Check out this site. They have recently updated it. It looks pretty good. New Attitude is a conference that Joshua Harris founded.

I’ve been away for the last couple of weeks. During week 1 of the public school holidays I helped to run a camp called Swing into Action. We had a great week up in the Blue mountains and there were a number of campers who became Christian.

During week 2 of the school holidays I went on a family holiday with Row, Dan, Ren & Rachael (and about 61 others as part of Shred Hotham). I spoke on the camp. The talks went okay and it was good to hang out with family. We recorded a special Snoddy (snow poddy)… you can find it here.

Did you have holidays? What did you get up to?

My vote for Australia’s player of the tournament is Lucas Neill. He was solid in every game and it was disappointing to have such a poor penalty called against him.

Australia had a brilliant tournament and dominated every aspect of the game last night… except for the score sheet!

For me the greatest moment of Australia’s 2006 World Cup was the second qualifying match vs Uruguay. After being cut that we didn’t make it in 94, 98 and 02 World Cups it was huge just to make it there.

I know there’s lots of people reading this blog… but not many comments… time for some comments…

What was your highlight of Australia’s run in the 2006 World Cup?
Best Player?
Best goal?
Best game?
Best…?

This terrible tragedy helps to put losing a soccer match into perspective.

This is what Croatia will be doing in a few hours… going backwards… (Hrvatska is Croatia in Croatian).

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During this World Cup I have been very disciplined in getting up to watch the soccer at 5am in the morning… hits has been particularly impressive on the nights where I’ve watched a game the night before (therefore getting 3 hours sleep!). This morning was difficult to get up… yet I still did.

Statement: we make time for what’s important.

I am convinced that reading the Bible is of infinite more worth than watching a football match… yet my discipline in getting up to read the Bible is lacking. Are you ever like this?? You make time for the menial (soccer, The Simpsons, cleaning your teeth) but neglect that which is more important…

Last night at growth group we again prayed for a group at the World Cup (as well as Botswana and a family from church going there for a couple of years). This week’s group: GROUP G. We prayed for SPAIN that the gospel would go forth in the midst of rampant secularism and also for a missionary family that we know of. For the UKRAINE we prayed for CCX (their ifes group) and that uni students would continue to be trained to lead that country into truth. TUNISIA has only 200 or so Christians! We prayed that God would sustain them, that they’d be able to keep meeting with one another, and that God would give them boldness to reach out to family and friends. SAUDI ARABIA is a significant country in the Islamic world. We prayed that the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection would bring about massive change to the country.