Archive for November, 2006

Oops

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

‘Kramer’ screws up badly

‘Kramer’ apologises
Excrement occurs.

8.15 Doorknocking

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

The Jehovah’s Witnesses came around at 8.15am yesterday.
What the?
How many people want to see anyone at that time of day – let alone religious door knockers
I wanted to invite them in and and show them this
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Thank God for John Saffran!

The Legend of Lonnie Frisbee

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Yesterday in the post I recieved my DVD copy of ‘Frisbee The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher’ and I watched it this morning instead of my normal time in the Bible.
Its both inspiring and tragic – a story of a man so gifted by God – so wounded and flawed – and of [...]

Why Didn't Grendel & I Think of This?!

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Oh – we did
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Thanks to Art who tipped me off last night about a blog that is purely a Christian/Atheist dialogue and looks quite interesting.
Hopefuly I will get there and have a read shortly.

Forge Internships 2007

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

I have just updated this page on our website so follow the links from the home page if you’d like to know more of what’s involved in an internship in 2007.

If you’re interested then we’d love to talk with you!
You can do an internship in simple missional living, church planting, or missional leadership in an [...]

If I Were an Anglican

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Just amusing myself…

Ok… enough frivolity… back to work…

Big Hitters

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

I was looking at the stats for Backyard Missionary today and checking out which posts have had the most hits. Here they are in order of priority:
1. Incarnational v Attractional Mission – a fairly polemic and feisty piece I wrote for a youth ministry seminar. Its sure to piss some people off, so if you [...]

FolderShare

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

A big thanks to Phil who pointed me in the direction of Foldershare, a back up system that kicks butt and is way better than any DVD or external hard drive.
The basic idea is that you synch your computer with another computer and you are able to replicate files on your own hard drive on [...]

Forge WA Survey Summary

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Ok here are the summarised results from our Forge WA online survey after 100 respondents. Thanks to all who responded and helped us review where we sit.
I haven’t included any interpretation yet, but I would be interested to hear what others would see these results saying. Feel free to leave a comment.
Demographics:
• The largest group of [...]

Credible Witness

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Daz Cronshaw of Forge Vic has just produced an excellent book that looks at different metaphors for mission here in Oz. It is entitled Credible Witness and is available thru UNOH.

In it Daz looks at mission as:
- spiritual companionship for the journey
- chaplaincy for the convicts
- shepherding for the settlers
- advocates for the marginalised
- servants [...]