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My musings, writings, observations, ideas, & thoughts about God, Life, and following Jesus in Suburbia.
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Lack of Comments from visitors - weird or…?
Just curious why folk don’t leave comments? I seem to get huge spikes of readers when I post or comment on another blog, but no-one leaves any feedback or comments!Not sure if what I am writing and commenting about is crap or if folk are too shy to say anything!
Would you like to let me know below? LOL Comment?
Posted in Blogging, Web |
No Comments »The Dining Room and Vive cafe on Facebook!
Recently, I started a cause of Facebook for both community meals - The Dining Room and Vive Cafe - and will be setting up a beneficiary(to raise funds for the cause soon. If you’re on Facebook - take a look and please join and spread the word.
Here’s the link - http://apps.facebook.com/causes/127577?m=46064a91&recruiter_id=4242589
Posted in Facebook, Fund raiser, Social Justice, The Dining Room, Vive Cafe, Web |
No Comments »Apologies for the site down!
The site was down for a day - forgot to pay for the domain name renewal - and it was only after trying to upload the last post from my iPhone that I realised what was wrong!
Apologies to the 1 or 2 readers here!
Posted in Blogging, General, Personal, Web |
No Comments »Empty Opulance
Wondered what to call this small piece. Settled for Empty Opulance as that were two words that spung to mind when viewing the images I am going to point you to look at now.
By USAmerican photograher Joe Johnston, the series is called MEGACHURCHES and can be found on his website.
Click through on the left, once the flash page has loaded, to PROJECTS then MEGACHURCHES and have a look at the many pics of USAmerican Megachurches - ok taken while they were empty, but still the vast opulance and offensive use of money is evident in EVERY picture. Have a good look and leave some comments here about it.
Posted in USA, Web, failure, megachurch |
No Comments »What do to with the domain iChurch.com.au?
I own the domain name ichurch.com.au - bought a couple of years ago as an idea for an online “church” utilising social media software that was not quite ready at that time. So, it has been dormant for the last couple of years. At one time I did ask a few of the guys at Forge around Australia if they thought the domain could go for an online magazine for Australian missional emerging churches. But, that was not too well recieved as it was though that there was already a few of those around (US and O/S one sure but where was the Aussie voices?).
So, now I ask you all, the few that read this blog and the many that stumble across these pages, what could this domain be used for? What ideas do you have? What can we do together to utilise the domain for the Kingdom here in Australia?
This is an open call for ideas, suggestions and yes, I am also seeing who would be interested in collaborating!
Posted in Australia, Blogging, Kingdom, Web |
No Comments »So, early Christians did meet in a Church Building!?
I was reading my RSS reader this morning over a coffee and almost spilt my coffee over myself and my laptop when I read one of the headlines streaming from the ABC. The headline was “World’s first church unearthed in Jordan” - so, there I was thinking they had unearthed a mass grave of early Christians, slaughtered by the Empire of the time.
But no. The article goes on to say that archaeologists have unearthed a shelter, or place where early Christians hid. (more…)
Posted in Church, Media, Web |
No Comments »Twitter?
Anyone who reads this use Twitter?
I do, but was curious if it had any following. I started using it to really just have a go and now have a couple of old school buddies following, the same guys who have me a friend on Facebook!
In case you care - check the columns on the right for my twitter status - and the ability to add me.
Posted in Blogging, Web |
No Comments »Reggie McNeal - It’s AD30 All Over Again!
One the men I love and respect as a teacher and mentor, Alan Hirsch, recently had this fantastic video of Reggie McNeal speaking on his blog. It was very powerful and thought provoking I wanted to share it with you. (HT Alan)
Addendum - In case you missed it or are reading this in an RSS reader, Brad Brisco has let me know there is another video of Reggie speaking about the same thing on his blog, as well as a link to the audio of both talks. Thanks Brad - I would also recommend adding Brad’s blog exploring missional church to your reading.
Posted in Blogging, Jesus, Kingdom, Media, Web |
3 Comments »Food Matters
A very good mate of mine recently sent me to a new website he had come across while researching nutrition for his family. They have had to make some major adjustments in their eating to accommodate allergies - but they feel they are better off for it, health wise.
Anyway, the site is called FOODMATTERS and is basically set up to sell and promote the film, Food Matters by two nutritionists turned filmmakers, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. They ask if we are sick and tired of the confusion surrounding food and want to feel good and prevent or reverse illness and disease? I answered yes, and I am sure many folk would too.
Here’s the films trailer. The website has a better quality version, as well as having the ability to screen the video over the web, or order a DVD.
Big Buck Bunny - Very Funny!
Thanks to a blog that I read - No Fat Clips - I discovered the very funny and delightful open source software-produced short film - “BIG BUCK BUNNY“. The short follows Big Buck Bunny as he awakes from a sleep to enjoy a beautiful day on the meadow, sniffing flowers and being entranced by butterflies, but his day is about cgange when he meets the spiteful squirrels!The film was produced to highlight the open source software - Blender - and the production took place in the Netherlands with a team from around the world. I screened it on my Mac for the wife and kids - and had the three kids roaring with laughter, not to mention my wife was laughing with the kids! The film is a delight to watch and an amazing credit to the software and team that that made it.
The film has a pretty comprehensive website with news about the film and it’s production. So, worth checking out! They are also selling a DVD of the film - but in my view the price is waaay too high for the short film and the extras they have included. Come on guys - don’t be too greedy!
But be sure to download the film and enjoy it with your kids (and spouse!). The film has a Creative Commons Licence and is available in multiple formats and sizes! Spread the word and enjoy the film - I would love to hear your thoughts about it.
Posted in Media, Web, film, humorous |
No Comments »HUSH for Homelessness
Mission Australia are running this very cool event next month, HUSH for the Homeless, inviting us to experience what it’s like to be voiceless!They are challenging us all to experience what it is like to be voiceless, by not speaking for an hour (or more!) on Wednesday 2 July 2008, and to seek sponsorship for the silence!
Tonight, as temperatures drop and winter takes hold, almost 100,000 Australians have no place to call home. Of these people, almost 50% are yet to have their 25th birthday and 10,000 are children aged under 12! This is why Mission Australia is running HUSH for Homelessness; an event to raise money to assist homeless men, women and children across the country.
HUSH for Homelessness symbolises the ‘invisible’ and ‘voiceless’ lives that homeless Australians lead.
All donations raised will go to support the work that Mission Australia do around the country with the homeless, including the provision of crisis and transitional accomodation and support services.
I have registered! Please check out my HUSH page here. I encourage you all to join, as an individual, or group and support this effort for an organisation that is taking what the Aussie Gov’t (and for that matter many churches) talk about and make a difference by doing something.
Go here to register and find out some more information! And please, if you do register - raise some sponsors!
Posted in Australia, Compassion, Fund raiser, Personal, Social Justice, Web, church life, life |
No Comments »Missio Dei Breviary
One of the guys I admire and have been following on the net, is a fellow by the name of Mark Van Steenwyk, who founded Missio Dei, an Anabaptist new monastic missional community in Minneapolis. I admire Mark for the work he is doing and for the way he rallies others who share the same or similar vision to join together to dialogue with The Jesus Manifesto and Christiarchy.But it is the Breviary that Missio Dei recently published that I am going to write about in the coming weeks as I start to utilise the breviary for morning and afternoon prayers. My plan is to start tomorrow morning, and try establish a rhythm of spending time with God in the mornings and afternoons with the aid of the breviary. Why did they create the breviary? (more…)
Posted in Blogging, Personal, USA, Uncategorized, Web, prayer |
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