cocktail church?

wow. crazy.
a weeknight, food, drinks - and church?
what will they think of next!

anyway, you may be free on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 October from 7.30 pm, and live somewhere near st albans lindfield - if so, get along, bring a friend or two.

apart from food and drink, there will be a talk each night:
27th :: A hell of a Life
28th :: A hell of a Death

get into to it!

Prayer as Mission

to my surprise they decided to put last week's talk on prayer on the web


24 May 2009 Promoting Jesus :: Our prayers Matthew 9:35-10:5

feedback was:

you were positive, encouraging us to pray, and showing that it's a great and powerful thing because we have a great and powerful God

some good catch phrases (something i've been encouraged to do)

you didn't link that well

you didn't think about biblical theology
good to get feedback. even better to get feedback that pushes you on (as opposed to bemusing/befuddling you!)
cheers guys

feedback welcome
warnings as per last time

walk to beautiful

we're putting the band back together. we're playing at a fund raiser for the fistula hospital in Ethiopia. if you don't know what a fistula is or why they would have a hospital for them, you should probably find out.

we're playing and then they're screening the film about women who've been involved with the hospital:

This award-winning feature length film tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer devastating childbirth injuries and portrays the hope provided by Dr Catherine Hamlin A C & Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital (The Hospital by the River).

Date: Thursday 28 May

Time: 7:15 pm refreshments & jazz band
8:00 pm screening

Venue: St Alban's church hall
Corner Lindfield Ave and Tryon Road, Lindfield, Sydney, Australia

Price: $20; $15 concession, includes refreshments

Tickets: Available after each service from Sunday 3 May or from the church office from Tuesday 5 May - call in or phone +61 2 9416 1703

Find out more about the film at www.walktobeautiful.com

This screening is a fundraiser to mark the Hamlin Golden Jubilee of 50 years in Ethiopia. See www.fistulatrust.org

Please come and celebrate the occasion.

And, as i said, you can hear the band. Back together.

Today Tonight reveals: Jesus the Fraudster

Jesus the con artist. Jesus the failure.§

the inscription in the photo reads "the King of the Jews", according to John in Aramaic, Greek and Latin (John 19:20)
who he claimed to be, who his disciples were built up to believe he was - he let them all down.
And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, and come down from the cross!" (Mark 15:29-30)

if A Current Affair, or Today Tonight*, were around in the fourth decade AD, you could picture them standing around the cross, joining in the insults.

Anna Coren, Today Tonight: tell me, Mr Of Nazareth, what do you have to say to your disciples? What do you have to say to the people to whom you promised so much? if you really are who you say you are, why don't you get down off that cross right now and do what you said? you can't, can you. just admit it - you are a con artist. Just say sorry, ok? that's all we want. A simple apology for the way you.....

and the passers by, the chief priests and the scribes, would have been urging her on.
we too, sitting on our couches, eating our T.V. dinners, would have been laughing at those shmucks who were conned by this defrocked fraudster.

§ this post's theme is borrowed from Tony's talk this morning at St Albans, after C.S. Lewis' threefold Liar, Lord or Lunatic distinction.

* A Current Affair, and Today Tonight are two really dodgy shows purporting to investigate the pressing issues affecting Australians today. much credit for this post must go to Anna Coren's interview of Corey Delaney, which is very inspiring indeed. watch her hard-hitting interview here