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venue | moore theological college, 1 king street newtown
speaker | eugene hor – featuring | revolutionband
time | 10am-4pm saturday 18 july 2009 – price | $3
evangelism trainers | dave miers + dan au
Launch video below:
From Alistair McGrath (quoted in Kent & Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Family):
Doubt is natural within faith. It comes because of our human weakness and fraility. […] Unbelief is the deciion to live your life as if there is no God. It is a deliberate decision to reject Jesus Christ and all that he stands for. But doubt is something quite different. Doubt arises within the context of faith. It is a wistful longing to be sure of the things in which we trust. But it is not and need not be a problem.
In John 20:27, Jesus says to Thomas to “Stop doubting and believe” (NIV). The word behind ‘doubting’ is the word ‘unbelieving’. Therefore ‘doubting’ is probably not the most helpful translation. So I think that McGraith is right in not having ‘doubt’ as the opposite of ‘belief’. (NASB, HCSB, ESV all go for ‘unbelief’ words.)
Today is our 6th wedding anniversary. Row is still my dream girl. Love love. This is the song we had play six years ago when Rowena walked down the isle.
It’s Claire De Lune by Claude Debussy. This version is from Ocean’s 11 and played by The Philadelphia Orchestra. (Here’s another stripped-back piano version.)
Breaking news. Newtown. Sydney. Australia. Dave Miers gets a credit in his Greek exam! That’s not a typo. If you happened to be walking down King St on Friday afternoon, you’d already know this… thanks for the high five! Giddy up.
We had dinner with our good friends Marty and Trine on Friday night (pic above). Marty is also uber-smart and helps me with Greek each week. Shout out.
Regular break it down content below:
…for one night only: Wednesday 26 August 2009. (He’ll also be at a pastor’s conference during the day). Chandler is the Lead Pastor of The Village Church in Texas. Scroll down a bit for 2 videos of Chandler preaching and 3 reasons I value his preaching:
See below for the 2 vids…
Continue reading “Matt Chandler is preaching on the Central Coast”
“In the year 3000, YouTube, Twitter & Facebook will merge into 1 super time-wasting site called YouTwitFace.” – Conan O’Brien (h/t Hayesy via tweetski). It’s easy to waste time online! True dat. There’s even been a bit of a trend in some tech-embracing churches to encourage twittering during the sermon. Last week, Josh Harris wrote a good counter piece on why he’d be discouraging his congregation from tweeting during the sermon and John Piper, likewise, had some good gear on the “difference between communion with God and commenting on communion with God.” Wise words of caution.
Here’s some more gold from Piper on why and how he will be tweeting:
I see two kinds of response to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others.
One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul’s capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought to be living it. So boycott them and write books (not blogs) about the problem.
The other response says: Yes, there is truth in all of that, but instead of boycotting, try to fill these media with as much provocative, reasonable, Bible-saturated, prayerful, relational, Christ-exalting, truth-driven, serious, creative pointers to true greatness as you can.
His response to social media reminds me of my #2 reason for blogging.
Don’t be a twitface.
This is a flippin’ awesome video from one of my favourite blogs, Ragamuffinsoul.com:
Smile. Now go and read Los’ 7 Keys To Starting A Movement based on the video…