Check out some new music.

For a limited time… you can download free Hymns Page CXVI Album.

The guys who have put this album together want people to experience the theologically rich hymns that have lead us to so strongly pursue music as a way of spreading the gospel. They want to see hymns be sung and known again.

The slightly odd thing about this is that Page CXVI is an anonymous project and so as much as we may all like to know they won’t be able to answer any questions about who we are or provide band photos.

Click the link below and the album is sitting there waiting for you and anyone else who wants to download it. Feel free to re-blog this, email the link, or tweet about this while the album is still free.

The promotion runs from April 27th to May 4th.

The new hymns album will be available for a pre-order or instant digital download as well.

On Easter Monday, the Australian Christian Channel (ACC) screened SONrise, J John Live at Hillsong London.

I had the channel flickering on in the background, J John started preaching and I couldn’t look around.I have never heard of the preacher but found him to be so faithful, engaging and hilarious. Lots of  jokes and illustrations and tricks for us to think about using in our preaching.

Check out this 8 minute clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPJwb4ymZoI

Or check out his website PhiloTrust

And if you have Friday 9th free… He happens to be here in Sydney this week.

Why not go see him LIVE (and free) at C3′s Presence Conference at Darling Harbour.

“Reason to Believe” – view on Creation

We believe that the physical universe, the realm of nature, is the visible creation of God. It declares God’s existence and gives a trustworthy revelation of God’s character and purpose. In Scripture, God declares that through His creation all humanity recognizes His existence, power, glory, and wisdom. An honest study of nature — its physical, biological, and social aspects — can prove useful in a person’s search for truth. Properly understood, God’s Word (Scripture) and God’s world (nature), as two revelations (one verbal, one physical) from the same God, will never contradict each other.

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Perhaps science isn’t a massive concern for you personally but you know that science apologetics is important and wish some of the literature out there is aim more at  you-an average person (by “average” I mean nonexpert in apologetics, and especially in science). Why not check out Reason to Believe‘s  Average Joe Blog

This is a great sermon series of talks on evangelism – Commending Christ: The Pastor, the Church, and the Perishing
Desiring God 2009 Conference for Pastors

Have a listen:

The Need for Evangelism by Mark Dever

A Shepherd and His Unregenerate Sheep by Matt Chandler

The Pastor and Evangelism by Mark Dever

“I Will Not Be a Velvet-Mouthed Preacher!” by John Piper

The Church and Evangelism by Mark Dever

Missions as Fasting by Michael Oh

Commending Christ, Q & A by various

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 paid more like $39.95 when I purchased it) and has too much teaching embedded in the film. It would be great if they had just the retelling of the parable that allows your small group to discuss and interpret with our bibles open.

36 Parables is great creative initiative trying to make the gospel more accessible and relevant to our media saturated generation. This resource is in some ways a product I see rectifying “internal churning”... it would be great to perhaps link to videos like these on our church websites and also make sure that organisations like 36 parables have good search keywords tied to its website title and content. They even come with a free downloadable study guide.

Yet again, my challenge still stands to web/film/theologians/evangelists gurus: Jesus is worthy of a good website to explain who he is and the life he has on offer to all. If you have the technical know-how, I’d be happy to consider putting a team together to develop the content…

Let’s be like Jesus go hang where the sinners are: in our generation its on on the web!

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