An aggregator of blogs by pastors, apprentices, organisations, Bible College students and others in the Vision 100 network.
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Don Miller has started blogging about commercialism. In his first post he gives the following suggestions: 1. Pay attention to as many commercial messages as you can. Have a mental clicker (not really a counter, because you’ll lose count and quit) running at all times, and just say to yourself, that’s a commercial message, that billboard,...
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There are always problems when we focus on one particular teaching in Scripture to the neglect of others. We must make sure that we hold truths together as best we can. There are some significant dangers in too much of a focus on my limitations and uniqueness in ministry. These are limitations that may well become evident in the ministries of Geny Y pastors, just as, I am sure, the strengths mentioned in my previous post, will also become evident: Focus on self-understanding can...
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This is a 'discovery' that I think is a defining element of my peers in ministry, perhaps a defining feature of Gen-Y awareness? It's the recognition that I can't be and do everything and I'll work at my best and happiest when I play to my strengths, along the grain of my personality. There's something very cool and very spiritual about this. It fits with the teaching on 'gifts' in the New Testament. It can be liberating to see that a gift is not merely 'I have no good reason NOT...
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Chairman Brian Vaatstra reflects on the current state of the Vision 100 Church Planting Network in Tasmania.
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A short, punchy review by Stuart Heath.
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I'm a big believer in churches learning to use offices, administration and administrative volutneers/staff really well. It's a great shame when a pastor does everything (and some of it badly) because he doesn't know how to organise workflow for someone else. Even worse is when people in the church who know and expect better inthe professional lives allow this behaviour to continue in the church. Bummer. I think it's cool to set up a church office, and even cooler to begin forming some kind...
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I used to email my posts to blogger. Now I've moved to Geneva's site there's some bugs in that feature. It can't seem to read gmail formatting (bold, hyperlink etc) and it can't understand line breaks and reads them as 'delete space between words here'. It's annoying. I'm gonna start a Facebook Page about it or something. God-willing it'll be fixed soon. In the meantime, I guess I'll start blogging from within the Geneva site. I don't know what CMS the Geneva site was built on......
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My conversion was gradual. It still is.But when I was about 19 God began seriously changing me. I cried during sermons. I spent hours with a kind, quiet older man who was always pleased to see me. And I read. And I read. And I read.Each of the three experiences worked together. The preacher quoted from books. The quiet older man sold books. And I missed hours of Uni as I stayed at home underlining and making notes in margins with my horizons expanding. They were exciting days....
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A post on SydneyAnglicans.net reports the discovery of new archaeological discoveries which may pointtowards: 1. A United Monarchy 2. The early development of biblical Hebrew H/T Craig
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is Nathan Campbell's blog. He's another thoughtful and stimulating up and comer in the Queensland Theological College and has the most spectacular looking blog I've ever seen.I've added him to the sidebar.
