In a previous post I noted: “I would identify my burden as ecclesial and generational – I want to see young people (Gen X and younger) worshipping God in a healthy Anglican church.” My metaphor for explaining that in the past has been nautical. My burden would be expressed as wanting to see a church [...]
Archive for March, 2009
You can’t preach if you don’t pastor
Saturday, March 28th, 2009Yeah I know that’s a bit of a generalism. But what the heck. What I mean this: If you are not engaging with the flaws and problems of your congregation. If you are ignoring (or worse yet, turning away from) the presenting sins of your people and not calling them to repentance earnestly during the [...]
ISP Filtering Heating Up
Friday, March 27th, 2009The debate on the proposed ISP filtering for the Internet in Australia is starting to heat up and get a bit mainstream. Senator Conroy faced some questions on the ABC’s “Q and A” last night but I found the level of discussion to be not very helpful. Much better is a podcast from the at [...]
Regreek, Bible, Copyright cont…
Friday, March 27th, 2009Another excellent article outlining the principles behind unethical restrictions on the use of bible texts and translations: http://betterbibles.com/2009/03/26/open-scriptures/ Who owns the Bible? Who owns the copyright on the Bible? Who owns the copyright on editions of the original languages? …We are at an interesting transition period in which Bible Societies are fading, Bible publishers are [...]
Regreek & Copyright cont…
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Just a link to an article that has an opinion:http://www.baylyblog.com/2009/03/german-bible-society-protects-its-cash-cow.html It’s pretty hard-hitting: It’s as if anyone connected with the lucrative Bible publisher corporate world today can do anything they want–absolutely anything at all–citing the Biblical command not to muzzle the ox, and everyone packs their discernment in the suitcase, zips it up, snaps to [...]
Who owns the Word of God?
Thursday, March 26th, 2009I noticed this afternoon that my favourite on-line NT Greek study tool, regreek.com/zhubert.com, has been taken off-line indefinitely. The front page now contains the following message: It has come to my attention that the MorphGNT team has had to pull their text offline at the request of the German Bible Society, so this site is [...]
Death By Love (Review)
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009I follow him on twitter but I’m not an absolute Driscoll fan boy. I say this to caveat the following statement from those who would read no further and write me off as “just another starry-eyed Driscoll worshipper”. Here’s the statement. This book, Death By Love, co-authored between Driscoll and Gerry Breshears, is excellent. It [...]
Filtering and the Digital Citizen
Friday, March 20th, 2009This is mostly to link to some wise words on the planned mandatory ISP-level Internet filter: http://www.warwickrendell.com/2009/03/20/mandatory-internet-filtering-its-not-a-debate/[Hat tip: Jonathan] It’s worth a read. I’ll also note that it appears to come from a Christian perspective. I particularly like this bit at the end and the reference to the concept of being a “digital citizen.” Thousands [...]
Driscoll on Apostleship
Friday, March 20th, 2009I recently watched this video by Mark Driscoll recorded at the recent Acts29 Network Boot Camp. Tasmanian Mikey Lynch was there and live-blogged some of it. http://theresurgence.com/sites/all/modules/video/resurgence_player.swf There’s much to like in this. It is my experience that the church planting apostolic call is very rarely perceived by non-church-planters and very rarely understood or articulated [...]
Censorship uncensored?
Thursday, March 19th, 2009A recent article in The Age reports on the leaking of the list of banned sites that is proposed to be at the heart of the Australian Government’s mandatory ISP-level filtering system. Censorship begins with censorship about censorship as they say. Distributing the list of banned sites is probably illegal and, to an extent, “irresponsible” [...]
