black stump

whoooo it is stump time! i am off to blackstump this weekend for my once a year overdose of christian music... i was singing Amy Grant in kmart today.... sombody kill me now....

podcast update

just letting people know that the 2nd and 3rd parts to the Last the Lost and the Least series were no good on the tape recording so i cant podcast them :(

i think next time i will do a straight to HD recording.....

the valley

thursday me and em boarded a virgin blue jet and scooted up to brisvegas for em's brothers 21st. this is the first time i have been up to brissy since i was like 14... and i don’t really remember any of it then.

flying in i was like... hey that’s a cute little city, after flying out of the megatropolis that is sydney.

we had a hotel booked in the notorious Fortitude Valley, and well... i like it...

The valley is arguably the cutural centre of brisbane and possible australia when it comes to JJJ worthy aussie rock and we stumbled in on the valley fiesta festival too so lots happening...

anyway i am currently typeing this from a top littel cafe with free wifi! yeh baby! ....

wait a min i think i have just fulfilled every E.C cliche in the book, a white middle class australian drinking a late in the cities bohemian district while blogging using a Mac with free wifi.... yep i have done it, the royal flush!

anyway stay cool... cause you know i am...

first podcast

well its time for my first ever podcast! this is the sligtly edited talk from last sunday night... enjoy
The Last The Lost and the Least - Part 1
Subscribe to the notyetfinished podcasts here to have the talks downloaded directly to iTunes

the last, the lost and the least

tonight i had the pleasure of sharing at church... my first sermon at maroubra baptist.... it went pretty good and i linked my blog on the handout, so if your reading this from church, welcome to notyetfinished....

i have included the sermon for download (will try to put the audio on some time)

the video reflection is available here on youtube

and the links to reaserch those looking out for the last in this world...

www.makepovertyhistory.com.au
www.shareanopportunity.org
www.amnesty.org.au
www.oxfam.org.au
www.fta.org.au
www.worldvision.com.au

so please comment add your ideas, voice your doubts, and think about how we can look out and help the last in this world.

a new look

i know that 2 posts a day is wild for me! but here goes... i have just convered over to the new blogger beta, it has some cool fetures like tags and list management and lots of other things... unfortunatly the templates are still a bit sucky but ill work with this one for a while...

anyway keep checking back as lots of new stuff to come over the next few weeks.

peace

please leave me behind

ok now this is disturbing! if we didn’t have to contend with our christian bookshops being stocked full of the dogey theology of the left behind books, and as if it wasn’t enough to have Kirk Cameron in a Left Behind movie! It is now time for the Left Behind video game!

this is nothing short than 20 backward steps for Christianity! not only is the theology messed up but apparently in the game you have 2 choices on what to do with the "non-Christians" for 2 points you can try to convert them and for -1 point you can just ... blow their head of..

now i believe the next "tool" we can expect from the left behind franchise will be a rebranded "2 ways to live". It will be called "One way to live, one way for me to bust a cap in your ass!"