How on earth did I get seven right?
I should have checked up on Gareth’s scientific tipping method….. 🙂

(Go Karyn!!)

1 Mark Edwards 5 5 5 5 7 27 109 3 Send
2 bek ingram 6 5 4 4 7 26 120 21 Send
3 Paula Boardman 5 4 5 5 6 25 189 43 Send
4 Andrew Canion 5 6 4 4 5 24 145 16 Send
5 Saintgaz 5 6 4 4 5 24 156 16 Send
6 Dave Quinn 3 6 6 4 5 24 156 38 Send
7 ozcanadian 3 4 7 5 5 24 158 37 Send
8 LittleTid 5 2 6 5 5 23 171 59 Send
9 jaggunn 4 5 3 5 6 23 197 40 Send
10 scott sladden 5 4 4 3 6 22 135 11 Send
11 Margaret Olsen 4 3 5 4 5 21 168 16 Send
12 Rodney Olsen 5 5 4 2 4 20 126 31 Send

Here is reasonable video featuring some of Bono’s quotes
(God tube)

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.