Posted in church on Mar 4th, 2008
Our new church is a new church!
We started at FOCUS (Fellowship of Overseas Christian University Students) on the first Sunday of this year and a few weeks ago FOCUS started their first Indonesian congregation: Gereja Kristen Pelita - Pelita (Lamp) Christian Church. The three of us are serving there this year and next, God [...]
There are some great preaching resources out there, some of which I’ll be making use of to get my preaching to some acceptable standard, but one that stands out (even amongst printed guides to preaching) is Biblical Preaching.
You could mount a pretty strong case that a Bible and this website are enough to make [...]
Posted in church on Sep 13th, 2007
Sally and I are excited to announce that we’ll be heading to FOCUS in 2008. FOCUS is the Fellowship of Overseas Christian University Students, and is a return to our roots in a way.
It’s part of The University Churches, which include Unichurch, the church we were at when Sally became a Christian in 1997 [...]
Posted in church on Aug 28th, 2006
Good (but short/incomplete) review of Mark Driscoll’s two books, The Radical Reformission and Confessions of a Reformission Rev. Link. From Sydney Anglicans ‘Around the Web‘ RSS feed.
Also, an awesome page at 9 Marks of responses to the question
What do you hope will ultimately emerge from the emerging church conversation for evangelicals?
Answers from Don [...]
Posted in church on Aug 13th, 2006
We’ve hit the big time now at church. Having worked steadily through Romans 1-7 over the last term, we reached Romans chapter 8 verse 1 tonight:
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
What precious news.
Posted in church on Jul 5th, 2006
The church’s annual ‘Good News Week’ mission is on again. This year the theme for the adults’ ministries is ‘Ask the bigger questions’, inviting people to think about whether their life feels like it’s become trivial. There’s a coffee club on each morning, with short talks, testimonies and plenty of chat, and a couple of [...]
Posted in church on Mar 18th, 2006
Our evening church just spent today (Saturday) and last night on our annual houseparty. So, instead of going away this year, spending lots of money and not getting quite the numbers we might like, we just hosted the event locally. The speaker was Sydney’s own John Dickson.His publisher, blue bottle books, has this tagline in [...]
Posted in church on Sep 6th, 2005
‘Partnership’ is a word fairly heavily bandied around in my Christian circles, that is, partnership in the work of spreading the good news about Jesus and growing his kingdom until he returns. I was struck this week (again) with how impressive it is to actually be working side by side with other Christians, being of [...]
