Stand-up comedy — ‘can anything good come from there?’ Well, yesterday we discovered Eddie Izzard. He must be the student’s comedian. History, religion, language, pop culture… His fabulous (!) 1998 stand-up, Dress to Kill, is an hilarious journey through European history. We loved his bits about church history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope-1Zb5t-k and […]
At this second AUS church planting network meeting, there were six women in the room of 40 or 50 men. At the first one, I was the sole woman. On one hand, since the movement looks like it’s shaping up to be complementarian (“a plurality of male leaders”) I can […]
Issue 1 This one came up during the gathering. Many young Aussie ministers seem mad keen on church planting, yet they are really just in love with the idea of church planting. They aren’t ready to make the courageous, all-out sacrifices required to actually plant and grow churches. An […]
This is the latest instalment in the development of a new Australian church planting network. Five guys from around the country have been working on it. Earlier this year, they visited the Acts 29 Boot Camp in Seattle to talk with Mark Driscoll and observe the Acts 29 assessment process, […]
Thoughts on Vintage Church, part 2
Driscoll’s preaching is now available in a CD set http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/4924 Have you ever felt a faint twinge of frustration at the state of the Western church? I doubt it — I suspect your frustration goes deep. I suspect that, somewhere, at some point, you’ve been disturbed, disgusted and appalled by […]
Mark Driscoll, the gospel-contextualising Neo-Calvinist poster boy, has come under some heavy fire at times for alleged inappropriate language — even calls for resignation.
Meet Jesus at uni 