Caroline Cobb’s A Home & A Hunger has been released today. It’s a wonderful album of songs that follow the biblical themes of God’s redemptive purpose. Here’s a song based on Luke 15, seasoned with observations by Tim Keller: The Two Lost Sons. Have a listen: The lyrics: Verse 1: I have been the younger …
Watch someone with a completely scripted contemporary order of service maintain they’re non-liturgical. Stephen McAlpine bounces off the observation that all churches have a liturgy of some sort or another, the issue is whether it conveys the reality of the Kingdom of God or is shaped as a pastiche that reflects the Kingdom of the …
The National Broadband Network turned up while I was away last week. I’d have preferred a full fiber to home network, but fiber to the node is all we get for now. Our plan is 25/5mbps. It seems to be an improvement. ADSL Speedtest NBN Speedtest. That makes a bit of a difference.
Chuck Lawless offers ten signs leaders have stopped growing. The head points of his list: You can talk about nothing new about God and His grace. You’ve read no new books in the last six months. You are preaching and teaching “re-runs.” You haven’t recently tackled any “God-sized” challenges. You haven’t shared the gospel with …
