Any time an Australian Presbyterian pastor resumes blogging is good news. Scott Kroeger has given us two posts in three days. Pop over to his blog and encourage him. In the latest of his posts he notes twelve things a pastor wants to hear. There are some things that will delight a pastor to hear …
For your listening and viewing enjoyment: Take one new song by Josh Ritter (Love Is Making Its Way Back Home from his newly released acoustic EP Bringing In the Darlings) and create a stop motion video for the song using “over 12,000 pieces of construction paper, shown as it was shot, with no effects added …
Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday (now generically labelled Pancake Tuesday). Which leads us into the season some Christians observe as Lent. Look it up somewhere to find the details. The evangelical wing of the Church (us) seems to be developing a growing fascination with practices which our forefathers (and foremothers) had the good sense to realise …
Lots of people are referring to this post (which is consciously framed in a gracious and constructive manner), particularly these three points: 1. If we, the congregation, can’t hear ourselves, it’s not worship. Christian worship is not a concert. In a concert (a particular “form of performance”), we often expect to be overwhelmed by sound, …
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