Wayne comes from Brisbane City Church which is well known for its work amongst the poor. This, combined with effective kids, youth and young adults programs, has seen the church begin to make a difference in the inner city areas of Brisbane.

Watch the replay of Stengleins bump against Richmond this week. It is at least as bad, if not worse than the one Johnson went for four weeks in the pre season.

Lets see…..my bet, Stenglein will get off completely.

It is here!
Came up a lot quicker than last year.
This year our speakers are Wayne Alcorn and Keith Farmer.
Leading worship will be Eliot Vlatko with some help from Andy James Court.

This is a wonderful time of refreshment and renewal for everyone involved, even me and Malcolm Rule who do a lot of the legwork and organising, politics (yes!) and trying to keep everyone involved and invigorated.

It is being held at the Mandurah Atrium who do great food, and lets face it, if you don’t have to do the dishes afterwards, its always better.

I really believe in Pastors, I believe they hold the key to change our culture and society more than anyone else. This is because they lead the churches. For good or for bad, thats what we do. And the church is the place Christ has chosen to work through. We are the chosen people, and Pastors are to lead. This is why I support them, even when they dissapoint, have different theology and practices to me. Even when I have no idea why they are in the ministry, or what they could possibly do that would be effective. I still support them. Someone has to…….

The truth is that so often I will ignore the positive stuff, even if it is well and truly in the majority, and deal with, agonise over the one person who is critical, even if I hardly know them.

Perry Noble has a great heartfelt post and he says this,

” wish that wasn’t me. I really do wish I could let that stuff slide…but I can’t because I have dedicated my life to what we are doing…and I sincerely believe it is the right thing.
SO…because of this I have spent an unhealthy amount of time over the past year or so trying to defend what we are doing here…and in doing so I believe I have managed to convince exactly zero detractors. I have allowed the enemy to distract me and get me so unfocused–and it has done this church AND the Kingdom no good at all.”

Nobles Post

h/t lowercase

Checking back through my esnips site, which is where I store all my messages in audio format.
Most messages get about 10-12 unique downloads/listens. The figure shown on the website is often not accurate, you have to do a bit of digging to get the right amount.

Well anyway….my Good Friday message has been downloaded over 80 times. Thats extraordinary for me….. Hope people liked it and got something out of it.

facts are true………. namely that Judd has bought a house in Melbourne, and Rebecca has been offered a job with channel nine Melbourne.

Pavlich has declared at a local Footy function that he would be staying on at the Dockers in 2008. He has also stated that, unlike Chris Judd, he is willing to sign a new contract before the end of the year. During the pre-season Matthew took ten weeks to decide whether to accept the club’s offer of the Captaincy.
Negotiations are only in the infancy stage, but all the signs are looking postive.