Archive for December, 2004

seventh day adventist remix

Friday, December 31st, 2004

I came accross this link from emerging blurb that is an article talking about the Seventh Day Adventist Church. It seems that the emerging church movement is moving further ashore.
“We have come together to listen to each other, to interact with each other and be open to learn more effective ways of doing and being […]

some numbers you will need

Friday, December 31st, 2004

Red Cross 1800 811 700
Care Australia 1800 020 046
Medecins Sans Frontieres 1800 788 100
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad 1800 034 034
Plan Australia 1800 038 100
UNICEF Australia 1300 884 233
World Vision 13 32 40
Some of the websites were overloaded when I tried earlier today and there was a fairly long wait on the phones. […]

Who are we defending?

Thursday, December 30th, 2004

There has been much discussion about the famed Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001. The recent decision against Catch the Fire Ministries has brought out all sorts of “thin edge of the wedge arguements” - as this article suggests you only have to read some Australian daily newspapers to think the end of
democracy and […]

the subversive nature of God

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

The gospel is subversive. Time and time we hear Jesus tell us how the kingdom of God is like:
A mustard seed - the smallest of all seeds.
yeast that is put in the bread - the active yet hidden growth agent
salt - it adds flavour yet is mixed in with the food until it becomes a […]

Happy Birthday Jesus

Monday, December 20th, 2004

I am sitting here trying to think of what I will say on Christmas day. For some reason, I find Christmas sermons harder to prepare than Easter. Why is that?
I wonder what insights I can learn from this conversation with a five year old today.
What is so special about Christmas Aislinn?
Well, it is Jesus birthday […]

Jesus says and we say.

Monday, December 20th, 2004

Jesus says the kingdom is like a mustard seed
And we say it is like a building
Jesus says the kingdom is like yeast
And we say it is dressing in a suit and singing some songs
Jesus says the kingdom is like salt
[…]

worried for the EC

Monday, December 20th, 2004

I am becoming worried for the emerging Church.
As someone who is involved in the emerging church through an established church at nccc, I write as someone who is completely committed to the idea that the emerging church is not just something for the trendy pomos, but rather is something that has the potential to reform […]

Attracting newcomers

Monday, December 20th, 2004

The National Church Life Survey has released some data on the number of newcomers as a part of church services, based on the 2001 NCLS . In an average church, 9.6% of attenders are newcomers without a church background. However, these figures might be increased by particular activities in which the church is […]

online church

Monday, December 20th, 2004

I am not sure what to think about this online church.
I did like this idea -
With this, you can just log out if you feel uncomfortable, and you know no-one is going to pounce on you to run a Sunday school group

Simon Jenkins, co-creator
It kinda represents Church consumerism gone a bit mad I […]

jesus of islam

Friday, December 17th, 2004

I have found a couple of recent posts on A Dervish’s Du`a’ really interesting, about the tradition in Islam of Jesus as a Prophet. Have a look here and here:
To this end, given it’s the Christmas season, I thought I might post some snippets about Jesus as a Muslim figure. There is a whole […]