Archive for September, 2009

Jesus All About Life :: How to Respond to Cheap Shots

Some people are more interested in paying out Christianity, airing their own opinions, making a mockery of the faith and of you than actually really wanting ot know the answers. The often deflect a healthy discussion about Christianity by offering cheap shots. And we need to be aware of: A fool [who] finds no pleasure [ READ MORE ]

Jesus All About Life :: It’s a Clever Campaign

This is a powerful advertisement campaign. It seems to achieve all that the creators set out to do: The key issue to understand is that the ads are not meant to deliver the Gospel…. The key word here is that the ads are designed to create interest and to challenge people in terms of their [ READ MORE ]

Too Much Too Young

Tonight I entered new conversations with young conservative political minded men at a dinner hosted by Tony Abbott. The guest speaker was Melinda Tankard Reist (MTR) from Women’s Forum Australia. It was interesting stepping into this dialogue with non-Christians who hold a similar stance on morality just without the same foundation of faith as myself. [ READ MORE ]

How alike are you and the Apostle Paul?

On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is not at all alike and 10 is very much alike, rate how alike you and the Apostle Paul are when he says in Romans 10:1 “it is my heart’s desire and prayer to God that they are saved”? Wherever you sit on this scale, we [ READ MORE ]

Do you charge for church?

Should churches place a cost on the supper table for – after-service-dinner/supper/morning tea? What do the added costs like this communicate to outsiders? Is this a good expression of Christian generosity? Is it fair to ask people to pay their way[ READ MORE ]

Lead a double life…

Tourism Victoria send a strange message of what Daylesford is like. One one hand it appears to be a place to enjoy pure, unpolluted and refreshing goodness of the day, while on the other hand you can indulge in the decadecet and licentiousness of the night. I found it fascinating that the advertisement leaves us [ READ MORE ]

Give me an answer…

This is not the most asthetic pleasing website and the videos are not the greatest quality but the content is spectacular. You can watch a number of videos where Cliff stands on a public university lawn and answers the questions of passers by. I love this show as it reminds me that I have a [ READ MORE ]

Should a church planter be bivocational…

H/T 9 Marks :: Church matters[ READ MORE ]

and I quote…

  • September 6th, 2009
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Creative Gospel… 36 Parables

36 Parables… short films for your [youth group] [bible study] [family] [church] [small group] Great free and accessible resource for you to use for your ministries. I have come across a similar concept Modern Parables and bought the DVD from Koorong. Modern Parables is an expensive resource (1 parable = $24.95 – I think I [ READ MORE ]