Archive for January, 2006

churches in canberra

Monday, January 16th, 2006

One of our readers has a request for recommendations of good churches in Canberra, whether churches that are doing some different stuff or involved in some genuine mission and impact on the community. If you know of any good suggestions, leave them in the comments, together with your reasons.

China map lays claim to Americas

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

This sort of article in the BBC news online edition always facinates me. I am currently reading guns, germs and steel by Jared Diamond and it is very interesting to see the movement of people around the world.

“A map due to be unveiled in Beijing and London next week may lend weight to a theory […]

workgroup tools

Friday, January 13th, 2006

For some time I have been looking for some computer workgroup tools that will allow our ministry team and leaders to communicate and work together more effectively. You would think this would be easy – but that is not the case when your environment is low budget and small. Most of the workgroup tools available […]

The horror of grace

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Geoff Bullock has emailed me a chapter of a book he has written that is not yet published. He has kindly offered the chapter to be posted here in the hope it might add to our discussions.

real life preacher on homosexuality and the bible

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Jordon Cooper points out that resonate are having a vigorous discussion about homosexuality and the bible. Within that discussion someone linked to a few posts that the real life preacher did on the topic of homosexuality and the bible.
As this blog has a long history of discussing this issue – I could not resist […]

baptism at Connect

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

At our Christmas breakup for our connect congregation, Sarah Mo was baptised. Sarah is someone who came to faith through connect and working in our opportunity shop and foodbank service. She is a very special lady who gives an enourmous amount of time to helping others and is wonderful in the way she relates to […]

Creation, cultural wars and campus crusade

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Regular commenter Alan Matheson emailed me to give me the heads up on an article he had written. I found it online and thought some here might want to discuss it.

“The debate about creationism and intelligent design (ID) is more than a debate about whether or not God did it.
The issue of evolution is but […]