I am home today with a tummy bug. So I am sitting in bed reading blogs before having another nap. I just took a photo of our youngest puppy. He is curled up against my leg with his mushy face all squished against me. He is sleeping soundly. I can […]

Some pedantic people have mentioned that the name of the author is not shown in the individual post display. It displays if you look at the front page of the site but for those of you who read through rss readers it doesn’t. This means that the post author is a mystery.
Now as Dan would […]

We have been experiencing some technical difficulties this morning and signposts has been down.
All is back and running now.
Sorry that you have been deprived of your signposts addiction fix for so long

At Tangent the other night, we discussed the story of the Syrophoenecian woman as recorded in Mark.
For those that aren’t familiar with the passage, it tells the story of a moment when Jesus was trying to get just a few minutes by himself and was interrupted by a gentile woman nattering on about Jesus curing […]

The last five days have been exhausting but as usual very stimulating, challenging and thought provoking.
I was going to post up my notes of the sessions but why bother when Tim Jeffries over at Established and Emerging has posted up incredibly comprehensive notes of each session.
Daryl Gardiner
John Franke
Mark Sayers
Olivia MacLean
Alan Hirsch
Mark Pierson
Daryl Gardiner
Alan Hirsch
Baxter Krueger
Marcus […]

Yesterday I heard Baxter Kruger speak twice. Once to the forge interns at their intensive and the other at the forge postcard last night.
Tim has put up some great notes over here and I will highlight a few of his notes here.
The reaction to Baxter’s presentation has been mixed. Some have felt that his argument […]

Michael Frost is publishing a new book next month.
The blurb on Amazon:
“Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture presents a biblical, Christian worldview for the emergent church—people who are not at home in the traditional church or in the secular world. As exiles of both, they must create their own worldview that integrates their […]

This one gets pretty nasty:
“Gene Ewing, “God’s Ghostwriter,” the man who practically invented the whole “seed-faith” heresy thing, is the multi-millionaire who thinks up most of the scams modern televangelists base their direct mail “ministries” on. Here’s one of Ewing’s little forays into money-grubbing, called “The Shroud of Tulsa.”
The right reverend Gene Ewing is exposed […]

Okay, maybe you can all weigh in to an argument productive discussion happening in our loungeroom last night between Phil, myself and the unnamed gent who lives in the same house as us.  In news this week, it turns out that there apparently was a conversation between John Howard a.k.a. the man of steel and […]

Sorry to be slow on the uptake on this, but Hillsong 2006 is up and running. Anyone who wants to post reviews, discussion or articles about the 2006 conference, do it in this thread (just so we can try to keep things together a bit).
Ta muchly.