Here is the text of a talk given by Professor Scot Mcknight
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to a group of Westminster Presbyterians. (HT TSK)
In light of our recent discussions with Don Carson this is well worth reading. (He does critique Carson’s book in here)
I like Scot’s insights and balance in what he has [...]
Little Jonny is throwing money around again and this time he has $90 million to give to state schools to employ chaplains. It was reported on last night’s news that every school could access $20K if it wanted to employ a chaplain.
The Australian reports on it here
Judith Bessant, writing for the Age what we do [...]
We have just got back from our annual Upstream team retreat in the small cray-fishing town of Lancelin. (If you aren’t sure what Lancelin is like then just read Dirt Music by Tim Winton and you’ll get it!)
It was a great weekend with the guys and really valuable to hang out, chat and remember [...]
On Friday as I was on the way home from Leederville on the train my phone rang and I finished up in a conversation with Gaz and Stu about how we should behave towards those we disagree with or believe to be in error in some way.
The question that often gets raised is ‘to what [...]
A simple word of advice.
Don’t.
I bought my still non-existent Sony Vaio for a very good price way back on September 19th, paid for it that night and asked if it may be able to be shipped a little faster because we were going on holidays on Oct 4th.
The seller agreed to ‘do their best’.
It is [...]
‘BJ’ a youth pastor from one of our local Baptist churches picked up the free WCA ticket and here is his review of the event:
The conference was held at CCC Hepburn Heights which is a good facility and there was a large projection screen which was good for the DVD’s of the speakers. The morning [...]
I was sitting at Greens cafe with Scott and Tim today just chatting when we noticed the cover of Tim’s Marketing magazine (Oct 2006 edition) where one of the feature articles was ‘How to reach the Christian Market’.
I only had time to skim the article but if Tim remembers to scan it and send it [...]
There are certain ‘brands’ of theology that insist that the key to a godly life is good BIBLE teaching, MORE good BIBLE teaching… and… yes you guessed it EVEN MORE BIBLE TEACHING!
I caught up with a good friend recently (who shall remain nameless), but who is a great Bible teacher and would fit [...]
Kevin Miller at Out of Ur asks a very helpful question: Who is more spiritual? Emergents or Traditionalists?
I have offered my comments over there so I won’t repeat them here.
On second thoughts I will have to because apparently my comment was too lomg for the Ur fellas. So here it is:
Well of course the emergents [...]
Ah – about time…
Finally a revised Bible for those who don’t like all the icky bits about dying to self, trusting God, forsaking wealth etc in the original Bibles. This’ll fly much better in suburbia!
Here is a quote from the developer:
“According to Chairman Mr. De Rijke the foundation has reacted to a growing wish [...]