Jesus and Santa
A River With No End // Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship are a rootsy/bluesy band from Mars Hill Church. I’ve had their recent EP on repeat for the last few weeks. I dig the opening track – One God – with its call to turn from idols and serve the True and Living God. My favourite track is The Revelation of Jesus Christ – it’s more or less straight from Revelation 21 with an accompanying banjo to boot.
You can listen to the whole EP for free on Bandcamp. You can also get free copies of lyrics and chord charts etc. I listened to it lots of times before purchasing it. Because I really liked it, I paid $6 instead of the asking price of $3. Generous, I know.
Sunrise Story on Kirkplace + RICE
Three friends were featured on Sunrise on 7 this morning (Sam Mak, Steve Chong & Adrian Tam). It was part of a feature on Kirkplace Presbyterian Church and the RICE Movement.
Praise God for opportunities like this! // Click here if you can’t see the above vid.
(h/t Kirkplace web)
How did our lives become so plastic?
One of my mates from high school recently spoke at the TEDx event in Newcastle. Check out Tim Silverwood’s presentation, How did our lives become so plastic? –
I’ve been really challenged over the past year as I’ve followed along with some of Tim’s environmental work to be more deliberate in caring for creation.
In John Stott’s final book, The Radical Disciple, he has a chapter on Creation-Care. As well as Tim’s practical example, I found Stott’s challenge in this chapter to be a firm rebuke for a lack of creation care on my behalf.
Stott has this quote from Chris White with a vision for Christians to take their environmental responsibility seriously:
They choose sustainable forms of energy where possible. They switch off unneeded appliances. They buy food, goods and services as far as possible from companies with ethically sound environmental policies. They join conservation societies. They avoid over-consumption and unnecessary waste and recycle as much as possible.
Here is Stott’s conclusion:
It seems quite inexplicable to me that there are some Christians who claim to love and worship God, to be disciples of Jesus, and yet have no concern for the earth that bears his stamp of ownership. They do not care about the abuse of the earth and indeed, by their wasteful and over-consumptive life-styles, they collude in it.
God intends… our care of the creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it (Deuteronomy 10:14).
Check out the Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation, a foundational statement for those engaged in the ministry of creation care.
What are some practical ways that you are seeking to take care of creation?
No More Tumbleweed
The December blog drought is about to end with a barrage of posts ready to be unleashed on the interwebs. We’ve been away on holidays for the past week. A pic from Kiama Carols:
Stay tuned for the following blogposts:
- Compassion Christmas/New Year Fundraising Project
- How to become a Christian
- Music Reviews
- Best of 2011
- App Reviews
- Christmas Sermon Preview
- Bus Stop News
- Year 12 Youth Ministry Strategy
3 Tips on How To Die Well from Abraham
I preached up at Coast Evangelical Church this past weekend. Reading Genesis 23-25, Abraham seems to be deliberate in his actions as he nears the end of his life. He dies well.
GENESIS 23-25 Sermon- Dave Miers (right-click etc to download)
Here’s the outline:
- Abraham trusts God will keep his promise
- Abraham works to continue to see God’s promises continue in his family
- Abraham looked forward to his home to come