Shaun was once a brilliant footballer and certainly ‘one of the boys’ at the local footy club. He was destined for great things on the football field – surely a star in the making – and his mates reckoned he was a bit of a legend both on the field and off.
Then one day he [...]
I have had this current laptop for just over 2 years now.
The battery was dying about 3 months back so I bought a ‘new’ one off e-bay. It turned out to be a dud.
Yesterday in the newspaper I saw that HP are doing a recall on the batteries in their ze4200 models. All I have [...]
In our ‘time poor’ world (see In Praise of Slow) real friendships can be hard to come by.
So many of us live such busy lives that we don’t have time to just ‘hang’ with people. And yet its actually a prerequisite for friendship that we spend time hanging, chatting about nothing in particular… just being [...]
This morning I was due to take Herds to the airport so he could head off to Melbourne for the National finals of his bream fishing competition.
It was a 6.00am flight which meant leaving Brighton at 4.45am. I hit the sack pretty early and a couple of glasses of red wine saw me nod off [...]
Yes, that’s right.
Upstream Communities is a megachurch.
Ok so when you think mega church you instantly think of 5000 people or more, but that’s not what I mean. Maybe we can expand the definition?
If mega = Surpassing other examples of its kind; extraordinary then surely we could claim to be a ‘mega’ -church. We could also [...]
Today at FORGE we dug around in the APEPT (apostle/prophet etc) stuff for quite a while with Hirschy and Andrew doing a great job of sparking our thinking.
Part of the exercise was to locate ourselves in the APEPT matrix, something I never find easy.
I was sharing with Alan on the way home that my sense [...]
Since I have been doing coaching work I have noticed that for every 5 or 6 youth pastors I meet there will always be one who will forget to show up. That’s about one ‘no-show’ a week.
Does that sound like a lot to you or does it sound normal?
I’m wondering what it says?
I guess if [...]
Did some of you think those were fish in the logo samples below?!
I thought the imagery of swimming up a fallopian tube was quite creative.
Ok – so its down to 2 and 4 on the ‘blogvote’. Any other votes???
Friend and prayer partner Steve Barrington of Foothills Christian Community in Vic is off on a mission trip to Bangkok with some of his community. Steve is a key player in UNOH and they will hook up with Ash and Anji Barker for the 10 days.
They have a blog here for those who are interested.
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Back in my youth ministry days at LBC I got to know Grant Cullen quite well – the local AOG pastor. Although he was with the AOG he was still a good bloke (that was a joke – before you penties get mad at me!)
Around the same time I headed out to take a different [...]