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Communicate Jesus

davemiers — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:36:58 +0000

Communicate Jesus is a website for helping Christians and Christian ministries to communicate Jesus. It’s run by Steve Kryger and has great tips on using web media and web tools in ministry. Uber-useful. Are you Christian? Interested in communicating Jesus effectively? Check it. Now. Follow on Twitter. Not Christian? Read this.

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Seth Godin on the tribes we lead

davemiers — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:14:02 +0000

Seth Godin is one of my favourite bloggers. He’s an entrepreneur and internet marketing ninja. I regularly read and link to him. Here’s his talk from TED earlier this year:

“Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.”

This gear is really valuable in thinking through church, gathering people, church planting, movements and the like. Download his book “Tribes” in audiobook format for free.

Purity vs Porn

davemiers — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:39:30 +0000

This page will be filled with a bunch of resources for fighting to be pure in a porn-riddled online world. Stay tuned… Get here via porn.davemiers.com or purity.davemiers.com

While you wait – here’s a couple of quick links…

Safe Internet Use

Josh Harris has a very readable book called Sex isn’t the problem, lust is. It’s PG (rather than an M rating like other similar books) and suitable for guys and girls; married and single; young and old. Here are 4 of his tips on fighting internet Porn:

Goodbye June 09 | Hello July 09

davemiers — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:38:43 +0000

The life-changing ‘Goodbye Hello‘ continues again this month… July is normally crazy camp season, but I’ve said no to crazy camps to spend time at home and have a crazy camp with Row and Sam. VERY good times. They are both doing well. I’ve also been doing some design work. Here’s the smashing magazine desktop calendar I’ve chosen for July:

June 2009 blogedy blog

June 09 = 13% more hits than May 09
June 09 = 51% more hits than June 08
June 09 #1 post: Samuel Gallery: Week 1
June 09 #2 post: Samuel David Miers
June 09 #3 post: YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace
June 09 #4 post: GENEVA Church Planting Network
June 09 #5 post: Rice Revolution 2009

Come Play

davemiers — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:00:32 +0000

Check out Australia’s FIFA World Cup Bid: Come Play! It’s for the rights to host either the 2018 or 2022 Football (Soccer) World Cup. Bring it, baby, bring it!

GENEVA Church Planting Network

davemiers — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:11:18 +0000

GENEVA is a new church planting network launching in Australia December ‘09. Mark Driscoll will be speaking via satellite. I like the name. Stay tuned for more details.

(h/t Andrew Heard via Dan Godden’s twitter)

Piper on Cultural Relevance

davemiers — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:16:39 +0000

John Piper doesn’t have a TV and doesn’t go to the movies very often. I’m all for godly engagement with culture in preaching Jesus, but this article from Piper is helpful in keeping the main thing the main thing. Here’s a snippet:

“If you want to be relevant, say, for prostitutes, don’t watch a movie with a lot of tumbles in a brothel. Immerse yourself in the gospel, which is tailor-made for prostitutes; then watch Jesus deal with them in the Bible; then go find a prostitute and talk to her. Listen to her, not the movie. Being entertained by sin does not increase compassion for sinners.”

Go read the whole article.

episode 11: giant secret from dan

davemiers — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:26:22 +0000

special guest sam hilton from hunter bible church. we talk about michael jackson. some other things. at the end of the episode a giant secret from dan is revealed. you don’t want to miss it.

Don’t blame it on the boogie

davemiers — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:19:27 +0000

Michael Jackson died today. We had The Jacksons’ Don’t blame it on the boogie playing as we walked back down the aisle after getting married. (Here’s the song from the way in)

Pastor Dad by Mark Driscoll

davemiers — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:30:25 +0000

Here’s a new free eBook from Mark Driscoll, Pastor Dad. “Every dad is a pastor. The important thing is that he is caring for his flock well. This book by Pastor Mark Driscoll looks at the ways that a father can raise his children well.” I just became a dad, I’ve had a quick skim, and plan to read it after my exams. Any other fatherhood book recommendations?

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Samuel Gallery: Week 1

davemiers — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:10:49 +0000

Little Samuel just turned 1… week old. We love this kid to bits and have managed to take 435 photos of him in that time. Lucky for you, we’re not going to make you sit through all of them! So here’s a selection of 36 that we like and hope you like too.

See below for gallery. They’re in reverse order (ie click on last one & work backwards).

Warning: Photo of Surgical Procedure at the bottom.

Samuel David Miers

davemiers — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:29:37 +0000

Introducing Samuel David Miers. Circa 14 June 2009. More exclusive pics coming soon…

episode 10: we got rick rickroll’d

davemiers — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:32:55 +0000

we got rickrill’d. we spoke about the blood of goats vs the blood of Jesus – Jesus is better. top 5 movies that could have samuel l jackson and 400 snakes. wow. what an episode. miss it or die. seriously.

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episode 9: this isn’t an episode

davemiers — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:20:46 +0000

episode 9 was stolen. this isn’t a replacement. we’re just letting you know how good it was. www.fervr.net + www.richardbeeston.com + www.twitter.com/eugenehor

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Rice Revolution 2009

davemiers — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:58:52 +0000

Rice Revolution 2009 – the Jesus Revolution… is coming. Website | Registration | Twitter

Launch video below:

Doubt vs Unbelief

davemiers — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:41:02 +0000

From Alistair McGrath (quoted in Kent & Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Family):

Doubt is natural within faith. It comes because of our human weakness and fraility. [...] Unbelief is the deciion to live your life as if there is no God. It is a deliberate decision to reject Jesus Christ and all that he stands for. But doubt is something quite different. Doubt arises within the context of faith. It is a wistful longing to be sure of the things in which we trust. But it is not and need not be a problem.

In John 20:27, Jesus says to Thomas to “Stop doubting and believe” (NIV). The word behind ‘doubting’ is the word ‘unbelieving’. Therefore ‘doubting’ is probably not the most helpful translation. So I think that McGraith is right in not having ‘doubt’ as the opposite of ‘belief’. (NASB, HCSB, ESV all go for ‘unbelief’ words.)

Claire De Lune – Claude Debussy

davemiers — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:40:31 +0000

Today is our 6th wedding anniversary. Row is still my dream girl. Love love. This is the song we had play six years ago when Rowena walked down the isle.

It’s Claire De Lune by Claude Debussy. This version is from Ocean’s 11 and played by The Philadelphia Orchestra. (Here’s another stripped-back piano version.)

Break it Down #11

davemiers — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:00:46 +0000

Breaking news. Newtown. Sydney. Australia. Dave Miers gets a credit in his Greek exam! That’s not a typo. If you happened to be walking down King St on Friday afternoon, you’d already know this… thanks for the high five! Giddy up.

We had dinner with our good friends Marty and Trine on Friday night (pic above). Marty is also uber-smart and helps me with Greek each week. Shout out.

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Matt Chandler is preaching on the Central Coast

davemiers — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:39:58 +0000

…for one night only: Wednesday 26 August 2009. (He’ll also be at a pastor’s conference during the day). Chandler is the Lead Pastor of The Village Church in Texas. Scroll down a bit for 2 videos of Chandler preaching and 3 reasons I value his preaching:

He preaches on the high school ministry retreat
From video 1 – he’s an engaging story teller
From video 2 – he preaches Jesus

See below for the 2 vids…

ps – he’s also speaking with William Taylor at the engage conference (katoomba young worker conference) on 21-23 august and 28-30 august.

pps – plus more events to be announced

YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace

davemiers — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:42:24 +0000

“In the year 3000, YouTube, Twitter & Facebook will merge into 1 super time-wasting site called YouTwitFace.” – Conan O’Brien (h/t Hayesy via tweetski). It’s easy to waste time online! True dat. There’s even been a bit of a trend in some tech-embracing churches to encourage twittering during the sermon. Last week, Josh Harris wrote a good counter piece on why he’d be discouraging his congregation from tweeting during the sermon and John Piper, likewise, had some good gear on the “difference between communion with God and commenting on communion with God.” Wise words of caution.

Here’s some more gold from Piper on why and how he will be tweeting:

I see two kinds of response to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others.

One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul’s capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought to be living it. So boycott them and write books (not blogs) about the problem.

The other response says: Yes, there is truth in all of that, but instead of boycotting, try to fill these media with as much provocative, reasonable, Bible-saturated, prayerful, relational, Christ-exalting, truth-driven, serious, creative pointers to true greatness as you can.

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His response to social media reminds me of my #2 reason for blogging.

Don’t be a twitface.