No gym on ANZAC Day!
My gym is going to be closed on ANZAC Day. Fair enough, it’s a public holiday. Plus, it’s respectful to those we honour on such a national day.
Send your youth group on a cruise
I got chatting last week with a visitor to Ridley who used to be the pastor of a big church in Sydney’s north. He was extolling the virtues of the youth pastor who’d worked under him and that youth pastor’s approach to growing and contextualising his ministry. I haven’t been […]
New Driscoll book!
It’s called Sweetheart. It’s gonna be one of the biggest releases this year! :P
Destiny’s Women
It’s often been said that music encapsulates an era. I was listening to a greatest hits CD of Destiny’s Child this week and it dawned on me that their music has in many ways been the soundtrack for women of my age. The girl power of the Spice Girls came […]
Stick it to the Man! (Sermon)
Here is a talk I gave last year to youth and young adults at Christ Church Dingley, covering Revelation 17-19 with a nod to School of Rock. There is a handout that goes along with it, as a tool to give people a cultural hook and a vocabulary with which to speak […]
Getting Real: Initial Thoughts
I’ve been wanting to read Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls since it came out but have had to wait until it was more affordable so this review comes later than I had hoped. Wendy has ably reviewed it here and here so I thought I’d focus more on […]
The Vertical Self (book review)
Mark Sayers has a real knack for diagnosing our Western bone cancers and provoking us to recover true life. If there’s a crisis in the Western church, he says, it’s not a crisis of church formatting but a crisis of discipleship. The basic Christian life, the very place where the […]
Meet Jesus at uni 