Archive for July, 2006

When God Shows Up… Part II

Monday, July 31st, 2006

For those who aren’t likely to read the whole story here’s a quick snapshot of what has prompted me to start writing this.
As I was talking with a friend the other night I said:
‘At the moment I feel like a guy who spends a lot of his life trying to start a fire with two [...]

New Pope

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

My friend & ex co-pastor, Steve Smith is the man I affectionately refer to as the ‘pope’, our denominational leader who is retiring at the end of the year.
Today the news is out that after a long search the new man recommended for the job is Mark Wilson of Whitford Church of Christ.
In true [...]

When God Shows Up… Part I

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

A few weeks back at our Forge
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download it s a mad mad mad mad world intensive I was listening to Deb Hirsch tell the story of how she and her friends from the punk/gay/druggie scene were all involved in a wild move of God amongst their community.
After taking [...]

Perspective

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Ellie needs some dental work… a filling…
How much should a filling cost?
Well, at a normal dentist about a hundred bucks. But she has been to a normal dentist and because she is young and a bit freaked it didn’t go as planned.
He told us we need to go to a specialist. ‘It’ll cost around $2000.00-2500.00′
‘For [...]

The WCA Blatant Rip Off – How Silly Will YOU Be This Year?

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

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beat me to the post on this one.
After the various discussions about conferences around the place we are soon to be hit with the Willow Creek Leadership Summit, but in what can only be described as the most absurd rip off I have come across (since last year’s WCA summit) [...]

Youth Stuff

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I was teaching on Tuesday night at the Baptist Theological College about Youth & Culture.
I would have to say that at 42 years old I am somewhat out of touch with the current surface issues in youth culture, but as I prepared I felt what was most important was to look at the deeper cultural [...]

Great Book!

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Over the next couple of weeks I will be facilitating an .acom class on Culture & Mission, one of my favourite topics.
The text for the class is Church Without Walls, a 1992 publication by an American who served as a missionary in Brazil.
Its one of the simplest books I have read on why missiology should [...]

What The?

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Each day when I walk past Kailis Fish market they are advertising ‘Albany garfish’, or ‘Denmark whiting’, or ‘Kalbarri snapper’, or ‘Shark Bay red emperor’.
You get the idea.
Maybe I’m ignorant, but does the place where a fish is caught make any difference at all to what it tastes like?…

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WWJB

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Darryn’s mob in Tassie have been at it producing naughty T Shirts to raise money for local community development work.
If you’d like one then there’s an order form here
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Conference Overload?

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Last week I went to the 2Inspire conference down at Lake Joondalup Baptist Church. It was officially run as a combined denominational initiative (Baptist / Church of Christ) although in reality Whitford Church did the bulk of the work and probably own it more than anyone.
At the new Church of Christ blog Barry Austin (CEO [...]