What Compels You?

In 2 Cor 5 Paul writes that “It is Christ’s love that compels us” to be his ambassadors of reconciliation. It seems that Paul is suggesting that mission and evangelism ought to be a response to our own experience of the love of God.
I couldn’t agree more, but I also know its not always the [...]

When I grow up

when I grow up
I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star
I wanna be in movies
These lyrics have been going through my head over the last couple of weeks.
First of all let me apologise. These are lyrics from a “Pussycat dolls” song that is being played on the radio at the moment and does not represent [...]

Cool people start their own charities

Tim Costello (CEO of World Vision) is quoted in this article as saying; “There are 700,000 not-for-profit organisations and the latest fad today is under-30s wanting to start their own not-for-profit equivalent of what in my day was starting a rock band.”
Cool! This is good news, I have always wanted to be Kurt Cobain (Sorry [...]

One Way?

Is God present in other world religions and can people be ’saved’ outside of Christ?
This is a pretty humungous question and one that will test whether anyone is actually reading the things I write! if you like some rigourous theology then read on…
Recently I read Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World a very [...]

Money can buy you happiness

I spent last week cooking on SU’s performing arts camp. It was a great experience that I will post more on later. It did mean that I have not got around to posting for a week or two but I did come across an interesting article Spending on Happiness
The article suggests that money can make [...]

You can’t download character

It is 9 years old now, but there is a scene in the film, ’The Matrix’ where the main characters (Neo and Trinity) are running from the bad guys (Agent Smith and friends). They are at the top of a building where there only method of escape is a helicopter. Neo asks Trinity; “Can you fly this?”, [...]

Starting Points?

I have borrowed this thought from W. David Phillips
Martin Lloyd Jones, in his book Authentic Christianity which is from his Studies in Acts Series, makes the following statement:
I am convinced that the trouble with the world today is that it does not believe in God.  And much of our evangelism goes wrong because it starts [...]

The Orange People (unsuccessfully) Evangelise the Watermelon People

There is a new mission agency on the block and their stuff is excellent!
Although GIA (Global Interaction) sounds like an insurance company they are actually the rebadged and revamped ABMS (Australian Baptist Mission Society). Its not often a rebranding comes off so well, but I have to say I am really [...]

How often?

For what seems like ages I have been pondering how frequently we should read the Bible. The simple answer is every day; which sounds compelling but runs the risk of falling into legalism. And then I found myself thinking about Dr Anders Ericsson who is the world’s leading expert on experts. In his opinion, what [...]

Transform 08

Transform 08 is coming up, it’s SU’s key training event for the year.
It’s high quality, inspirational, practical and good fun.
A personal transformation with God being the centre is always a swell thing! A transformation where we can pass on what we have learnt to encourage, lead and empower others is even greater. And [...]