Posted in christianity, news on Aug 13th, 2008
Rick Warren, of Purpose Driven Life fame, has appeared in TIME this week.
It’s fascinating to observe some of the differences between evangelicalism in the US and in Australia. Being a much, much more secular country, it’s almost too hard for Aussie Christians to conceive of how an evangelical could have so much clout in [...]
Posted in art, christianity, humour on Aug 6th, 2008
Posted in bible, christianity on Aug 4th, 2008
Nerds rejoice!
Codex Sinaiticus, the equal oldest and best complete New Testament text is now available online (thanks, Di, for the link).
Along with Codex Vaticanus, it is considered the best complete NT we have, dating to the fourth century. I saw Codex Sinaiticus (designated with the Hebrew letter aleph, א) in 2001 when I visited [...]
Posted in christianity on May 3rd, 2008
Biblical Preaching is a blog I’ve mentioned before, but it’s so full of wisdom that I thought I’d mention it again.
This times it’s preaching to real ordinary people,
Remember that you are not preaching to some kind of super-saintly collection of elite spiritual warriors. You are preaching to ordinary people. Ordinary people [...]
Posted in christianity, news on Mar 29th, 2008
Wow. Adele Horin is pushing so hard for abortion here, it’s almost satire. I agree with her that teen pregnancy is generally undesirable, but I don’t agree with her solution - get serious about abortion. … will there ever be a Hollywood artist brave enough to do a romantic comedy about a girl who opts [...]
Posted in christianity, web on Feb 8th, 2008
The preview site is live. Looks fantastic. I cannot tell you how excited I am about this resource. Go Dicko!Warp.
Posted in christianity on Dec 24th, 2007
Happy Birthday, Lord. Armies of angels appeared to the shepherds and told them, Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you - he is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:11)After the shepherds had seen and heard from the angels… …they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who [...]
Posted in christianity, web on Dec 4th, 2007
The Golden Compass is out soon in Aus and has generated a great deal of pre-press, most of which seems to have come from Christians. Here’s a sample from the Professional Standards Unit of the Sydney Diocese:Please consider a boycott of the movie and the books. Also, pass this information along to everyone you know [...]
Posted in christianity, thoughts on Nov 26th, 2007
Okay, I realise I’m a week late on this, but it’s good stuff, and many may have missed Mark’s thinking. Mark is a former student and lecturer of Moore College, currently studying for his Ph D. at Oxford. He’s a smart cookie and he learned me some good doctrine and church history before he [...]
Posted in christianity on Oct 21st, 2007
This one’s worth watching, though it’s a brief summary. It’s a Flash animation of the spread of religion over 5000 years. Click here to view (I would embed it but it’s too wide and it would make the site look (more) amateur).Via Blog and Mablog. Great name.
Posted in christianity on Oct 16th, 2007
Joel Osteen (pronounced with a long ‘o’) is getting a real hammering from evangelicals right now and, I think, with good reason. Osteen was recently featured on 60 Minutes (US version, ofcourse) and it’s fired up the blogosphere. There’s a 12min clip from the story on the 60 Minutes page which is well worth watching. [...]
