Help – I think I just started a website…!
So I was having a coffee break earlier this evening and catching up on what’s going down in the blogosphere. And everyone’s digging those videos from the Passion for Life initiative (Sammy Davies, Dave Bish, Martin Downes, Justin Taylor to name but a few). Lots of good stuff coming out that will be useful in answering people’s questions about Christianity, and in equipping Christians to answer those questions in person.
And so, I started bookmarking some stuff, filing it away with some other videos I’d collected…and then I realised that I had collected quite a few that are in the form of questions that are commonly asked of God/The Bible/Jesus/Christianity – being answered very clearly by godly and winsome, evangelical people. And then Vodpod flashed up a thingy saying – why not put these all on a nice bit of web page somewhere… so I did! A man with a box on his head and an appropriate font (luck, not judgment) later and…
allow me to introduce…
Seriously though, it’s only a collection of videos at the moment. I would love a site like this to exist for people who do not yet believe in Jesus and who have questions/doubts about Christianity.
That’s where you come in. Please, please, if you read this blog – have a look and tell me if you think it’s got legs. And – if you happen to be one of those “slightly more technically minded than the rest of us” people (you know who you are!) – then I’d love to hear from you if you think you could tech-ify a (largely video-based) site like that. The current vodpod package is incredibly functional but very inflexible.
I have ideas like this every other Monday (it seems like). I tend not to do anything about them tho…!
Nepal 2009 Episode 3
Episode 3 now online. “The one where the trek actually starts and I swallow a mosquito live on camera…”
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Nepal 2009 Episode 2
Here is the second episode from the Nepal videos. Join me on another day around Kathmandu as we observe some more of the Nepali culture and prepare to go off on the trek.
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Octobre
No, it’s not a typo – it’s French. Enjoyed a lovely time in London with Ruth these past few days. Autumn happens to be my favourite season so it was nice to see the richness of colours displayed in some lovely parks and gardens around the capital.
They say there’s a song for every season and the one that I always identify with this time of year is “Octobre” by Francis Cabrel. Being French, you may not have heard of him. I like him. It helps if you can understand the words but his music is well crafted and pleasant to listen to whether you get the translation or not. Here’s my attempt at the first verse and the last chorus:
The wind will crack the branches.
The fog will come in its white dress.
There will be sheets everywhere,
Lying on the stones,
October will hold its revenge.You will play outside like the children of the north,
Perhaps October will remain.
Nepal 2009 Episode 1
Had a brilliant time in Nepal. Been back since Monday night. Two assignments and a preach have taken precedence this week but here’s the first of many episodes of the Nepal adventure to enjoy!
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Nepal – Day 16
Day 16. Sun 18 October
Optional extra activities or leisure
Nepal – Day 15
Day 15. Sat 17 October
Sightseeing in Kathmandu and souvenir shopping day
Nepal – Day 14
Day 14. Fri 16 October
Fly to Kathmandu and check into the hotel.
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Highlights from the Blogosphere
- False Messages III: Desiring Him November 11, 2009This is now the third (and final!) entry in this short series written by my wife, Aileen. In the last article she talked about rejection and how it effects both wives and husbands. The day before that she dealt with sexual desire, pointing out some of the differences between men and women. Today the series concludes. One thing I want to say. In this series s […](author unknown)
- How to Prepare a Christmas Sermon November 11, 2009Sometimes the Christmas season can be the toughest for a preacher. Why? Because while the incarnation of Jesus Christ is amazing, communicating it afresh year after year can be trying. Recently on our online social networking site The City, some of my brothers in the Acts 29 Church Planting Network were sharing some sermon ideas and I thought posting some of […]Mark Driscoll
- Not Just for Theological Uber Geeks November 11, 2009(Author: John Piper) No, no, no. My friend, Mark Driscoll. No, no, no. Yesterday you tweeted and facebooked to a gazillion people: Only the hardcore uber geek theological types who love footnotes will care, but John Sailhamer's The Meaning of the Pentateuch & Andreas Kostenberger's A Theology of John's Gospels & Letters were just relea […](author unknown)
- As One Who Must Give An Account November 10, 2009A young preacher once complained to C. H. Spurgeon, the famous Baptist preacher, that he did not have as big a church as he deserved. ‘How many do you preach to?’ Spurgeon asked. ‘Oh, about a hundred,’ the man replied. Solemnly, Spurgeon said, ‘That will be enough to give account for on the day of judgment.’Colin Adams
- Jesus Interrupted November 10, 2009Jesus InterruptedBy Bart D. Ehrman304 p.HarperOne (March 2009)This review has been used by permission as appeared in WTJ 71, no.2, Fall 2009Just in time for Easter, Bart Ehrman has (again) offered another popular-level assault on the historical integrity of the Bible. One begins to wonder how many different ways this can be done by Ehrman. In Lost Christia […](author unknown)
- Cross Talk: Where Life and Scripture Meet November 10, 2009WTS Books is having a 48-hour sale on Michael Emlet’s new book, Cross Talk: Where Life and Scripture Meet. It’s less than $5, which is 69% off the retail price. One of the things he’s arguing against is the “take two verses and call me in the morning” approach to biblical counseling and life. A couple of blurbs: “If you hunger to apply the Bible to life, or […]Justin Taylor
- False Messages II: The Heart of Rejection November 10, 2009This short series, guest authored by my wife Aileen, began yesterday with False Messages I: What He Really Wants. Today Aileen picks up where she left off. ***** by Aileen Challies When you thought about getting married and when you anticipated having sex with your husband, did you ever think about how often you'd be saying "no" to him? I know […](author unknown)
- Missional church and global mission November 10, 2009In a recent blog post Ed Stetzer asks, “Why are so many missional Christians uninvolved in God’s global mission? As the missional conversation continues and deepens, what has occurred that has led to our blindness to the lost world around us?” (HT: JT) Stetzer’s answers are worth reading. But I have to say that the phenomenon he identifies has not been my ex […]Tim Chester
- NewsNote: Falling Fertility Makes for Happy Economists? November 10, 2009Is the fact that fertility is falling around the world good news? You would certainly think so if you agree with the analysis cheerily offered by The Economist. That very respected journal of economic analysis recently offered a cover story that celebrated falling human fertility as “changing the world for the better.” “Sometime in the next few years (if it […]Albert Mohler
- Incandescent at the TV November 10, 2009TV last night made me very cross indeed. It was on in the background as Ros was marking schoolwork and I was reading. All of a sudden I mentally tuned in to something that made me stomp and fume around the living room. Picture me stomping and fuming. Grrrr. The programme was about life on the Scilly Isles. A large segment was given over to how the "chur […]Marcus
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