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22 very simple ways for a new blogger to improve
I have found myself coming back to this post by Abraham Piper over at 22 Words over and over. He’s got some great points. I’ve given my favourites below:
22 very simple ways for a new blogger to improve
Abraham Piper
Writing
1. Keep paragraphs 5 lines or shorter. (If this post were a list of one, this would [...]
My Year on an A6 Card
ots of people have Christmas traditions but do you have any New Year’s traditions? Of course there’s always the old stay-up-til-midnight routine, but besides that.
My New Year’s tradition
For the last several years I’ve made a habit of sitting down sometime around the New Year and summarising my whole year on an A6 card. That’s about [...]
The Virgin Birth and Other Tabloid Headlines
Of all the doctrines of Scripture, there is none quite so intriguing as the virgin birth. I mean, this is tabloid material!
“Aliens Abduct Kevin Rudd”
“Orphaned Elephant Raised by Porcupine”
“Elvis Sighted in Paris”
“Virgin Has Baby”
Incredible! … true.
Unbelievable! … true.
Beyond the bounds of reason! … true.
A kingpin reality of the gospel … absolutely true.
It was predicted thousands [...]
Someone’s Having Self Image Problems
Can you believe it’s almost Christmas?! Hey, it’s time to break out all your Christmas music and try to listen to each song at least once! But I promised to continue the self image topic today so I’ll save the Christmas post for next week… maybe.
Gotta go back to the beginning
Ok. So Genesis is the [...]
The Power of Self Image
n recent decades, popular psychology has sold the idea that man’s problem is that his self esteem is too low. And Christians have bought it. In fact, many Christians have made it their gospel.
But have we fundamentalists over-reacted?
First, I think of Joe Zichterman’s statement when he left Fundamentalism that spiritually abused people should listen [...]
400 Students Detained in China
“Four house church leaders were sentenced to re-education through labor for one to one-and-a-half years. The Christian leaders were accused of ‘preaching to students’”
See here.
Rick Warren on Fox
Give Jesus a 60 day trial period.
Fox Video.
Team Evangelism in Australia
his last week my church had four days of evangelistic outreach with Steve Pettit and his team. The gospel was preached simply and many responded to it. I was blessed to see this team giving of themselves to reach out to others and see the gospel change lives. It was convicting.
Follow the vblog.
The team evangelism [...]
Is the Web the Future?
Today marks twelve years of ministry for Worship Music Ministries.
Twelve years of music in Australia
One of my burdens for music ministry in Australia, and for support ministries in general in Australia, is that they would be self sustaining. I could probably write a whole series of posts on that, and maybe I will someday, but [...]
BJU Releases Statement on Race
“BJU was wrong in not admitting African-American students before 1971.”
Bob Jones University.
Independent Baptist Pastor Taking Heat for Preaching Hell
Pastor Kevin Harris of Illawarra Community Baptist Church is taking heat from the Jewish community for explaining the Scriptural teaching of hell. Sydney Morning Herald.
Using Scripture Like Satan Does
I suppose there’s a lot more that could be said about my topic of the last three weeks. We did get a little interaction happening in the comments which would be worth looking at. But I’ll probably let that topic rest for now.
hose who know me well know that one topic I’m passionate about is [...]
