In the light of the previous post

this song came up on random on my MP3 player today.
(Click here if that doesn’t work.)
It’s not brilliant, but it is appropriate.
h/t Tominthebox News Network
(How’s this for prolific. You can go back to your scheduled blog reading now.)

How has God loved us?

An oracle: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.“I have loved you,” says the LORD.
“But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’
“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” the LORD says. “Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to [...]

Violently Happy

because we (along with 4998 of her closest friends) will be seeing Björk play on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House as part of next year’s Sydney Festival.
Not a bad way to start out life in Sydney.
(Photo -Bjork 01 was originally uploaded by Andrew Jorgensen.)

Charismatic Cathedrals

My understanding is that the architecture of Cathedrals was meant to communicate the majesty and glory of God.

It seems that the “Cathedrals” of the new Charismatics are designed to communicate “a statement of faith and a statement of blessing” that “God is looking out for you and wants to bless you financially, as well [...]

…that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ.

Last year, I preached the Good Friday sermon at church.  So I suppose that it was only fitting that this year I “completed” what was started by preaching on Easter Sunday.
Since most of the readers of this blog (read “my family”) came to hear me preach in person, then no-one will probably benefit from this [...]

I’ve been published!

I’ve been published!
Originally uploaded by Saunderses.
Well it’s nothing on what Nathan has achieved in his year, or even what Andrew had published (taken with my camera, nevertheless), but I’ve had a photo published in last week’s Scene magazine.
It’s a photo I took of Joel at a BBQ which is part of a little notice for [...]

Listen up

My sermons on the second half of Ephesians 1 are now online.  You can listen to either the morning or evening sermons (though I think that it sounded a little better in the morning).
The Roger Ramjet illustration was particularly well recieved, as was the introduction (which won’t work particularly well without the visuals).
We’re going to [...]

Something sung, something said

Many, many months ago I mentioned that I’d been working on writing a “church song”.
Well the song that I was writing back then has not yet seen the light of day, but another song entitled “This is my prayer” has. The song is based on the first chapter of Ephesians where Paul both prays for [...]

Who’s that white guy?

Had a great weekend up at Luther Heights, Coolum with the boys and girls from FIGS*.
It was the first time I’d been a “camp speaker” and the first time that I’d ever done a series of sermons.
Being the camp speaker wasn’t all that bad. A few of the FIGS leaders were friends from various [...]

The Sinfulness of Jesus

On Good Friday this year I preached at church.
The audio is online – please have a listen to it and leave helpful and encouraging comments here.