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Christian Web Awards

by Hugh on May 15, 2009 in Faith, Random with No comments

The Christian Web awards have a bit of a new look for 2009… a nice new yellow website, and also a slight change of focus, now it’s called “The Original Christian Web and New Media Awards”… does the inclusion of ‘original’ mean someone else is trying to rip it off and do their own awards thing…?

Anyway the categories are:

Best Christian Blog
Best Leadership Blog
Best Christian Blog (under 25)
Best Newcomer Blog
Best Small Church Website
Best Large Church Website
Best Christian Organisation Website
Best Christian Music Website
People’s Choice Award
Best use of New Media for a Christian Project
Best use of New Media for a Christian Campaign
Best use of Rich Media for Christians

You can enter now (entries close 24th August)… I will certainly enter the blog again – gotta try and retain the title… I think I will also enter the Bible by the Beach site, and might try and get a new church website ready soon…

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Grace from Glen

by Hugh on December 18, 2008 in Faith, Random with 1 Comment

The first time I met Glen Scrivener he encouraged me with the gospel. He still does it, though I haven’t seen him in person for a while…

I remember speaking with a Christian man about his extra-marital affair from years earlier. As he spoke about the pain of those memories I said to him You realise that in the midst of the very worst of that, Jesus was rejoicing over you as a Bridegroom rejoices over His bride. He paused for a long time and said “That makes it a hundred times worse!” I said Yes it does. A thousand times worse. We think that we manage to sin away in a corner somewhere. No, no, no. Just read 1 Corinthians 6:15-20 to see that we are very much united to Christ in our sin!

We stink of pig in the Father’s arms. That’s a thousand times worse than stinking in the sty. But it’s a milliontimes better too.

The above from a post on the Prodigal Son, and the follow up post – Sinning really isn’t the worst thing

If you’ve never read is blog, you should.

If you live near Eastbourne, go and meet the man.

Why does God give young men such strong sexual desires?

by Hugh on November 3, 2008 in Faith, Random with 1 Comment

“To motivate them toward growing up and honorably taking a wife. Nearly every man wants to have sex. The issue is which woman he will have sex with. If he grows up, leaves home, walks with God, pursues his career, and then marries his bride to enjoy her biblically, then his love for her was part of God�s motivation to turn a boy into a man by making him take manly responsibility. Since most young men want sex, that desire is to encourage them to not settle for having sex with their hand or with their girlfriend, but rather grow up and lovingly enjoy their wife.”

Mark Driscoll

Piper and Driscoll

by Hugh on October 17, 2008 in Faith, Random with No comments

I love the banter that goes on between these two…

At the last Resurgence conference there was the joke question from Driscoll… “Would you let an Arminian cut your grass?” and just after the infamous Driscoll-Chandler punch.

Then there’s his 4 reasons why I love John Piper…

and reason number 5, “He’s a good sport”… see below:� John’s Piper’s New Coat!

Hope to see him preaching in it soon! Best line in the video… “I love John Piper… but not in an Episcopalian way!”

Some links…

by Hugh on October 7, 2008 in Random with 2 Comments

Well I may not have blogged that much recently… there’s plenty of posts to come, some are drafted already, but alas no time… however, I have been reading around…

Should you support Christian bookshops rather than Amazon??

I have mixed feelings which I’ve been discussing on Phil Whittall’s blog here and here.

Preaching Notes

I’m trying to work out the best way to do this… I like note form rather than script… Josh Harris has been publishing some well known preachers notes… my favourites are; CJ Mahaney, Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll.

Matt Chandler starts blogging

Love this guy. Loving him preaching on Luke, and pleased to hear he’s now got a blog called Dwell Deep.

Desiring God conference – The Power of Words and the Wonder of God

Piper, Driscoll, Ferguson, Kauflin, Tripp etc. check out the audio and video

Driscoll in Syndey and Jensen’s response

18 point critique of Sydney Anglicans (given that British Evangelical Anglicans steal all their ideas from Sydney, they pretty much all apply here too!)… 18 Obstacles to Effective Evangelism

Jensen gives his thoughts in response

….still coming soon will be some book reviews and the finishing off of some old posts

Preach the Gospel to Christians

by Hugh on September 10, 2008 in Faith, Random with No comments

When�s the last time you looked another Christian in the eye and said �Mate you�re a sinner.� I know you have struggles, I know you�re tired but, deep down you�re wicked!� That�s your real problem.� But Mate – you�re clothed in the righteousness�of Christ, carried on His heart before the Father, rejoiced over in the presence of the angels.�

Glen Scrivener

Finding Coordinates on Google Map

by Hugh on August 22, 2008 in Random, Technology with No comments

I don’t usually make technology related posts, but I keep having to Google this to remember how to do it! So, if you need to find the coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a location on Google Maps then here’s how you do it…

Find your point of interest on Google Maps
Right click on the point and click ‘Center map here’ – centre?
In your browser address bar type the following Javascript code, then press enter:

javascript:void(prompt(gApplication.getMap().getCenter()))

A small dialogue box will then appear with two long numbers in brackets – latitude coordinate first, longitude second.

I use these two create Google Maps in my websites through plugins for WordPress and Joomla.

The Four Horseman of Evangelicalism

by Hugh on August 22, 2008 in Faith, Random with No comments

I love when Driscoll gives those little quips – he describes Billy Graham, John Stott, J.I. Packer and Francis Schaeffer as “The Four Horseman of Evangelicalism”. He says this in a 20 minute interview with Sydney Anglicans (Peter Jensen possibly). There’s also loads of great video content based around GAFCON.

Online Commentary Survey

by Hugh on August 19, 2008 in Books, Faith, Random with No comments

A new site has been launched called BestCommentaries.com which gives an online survey of just about every commentary. The site takes it information from survey information from; Don Carson, John Piper, John Glynn, Trempar Longman, R.C. Sproul and others. You can see commentaries by book of the Bible, by series or by author. There’s also a list of the two top rated commentaries for each book of the Bible and a list of forthcoming commentaries.

So for each commentary there’s a rating, price, where you can buy it, categories on the ‘type’ or ‘level’ of commentary. There’s a cool feature which is a flash bookshelf (below) it shows you what the commentary looks like, even the thickness as you pull it off the book shelf! Helpfully there’s the facility for site members to add reviews of commentaries as well as that all reviews from Amazon.com are imported. Definately a good place to go if you need to acquire a commentary or build a collection.

Interview with me

by Hugh on August 17, 2008 in Faith, Life, Random with No comments

Now quite why anyone would want to interview me I don’t know, frankly I am dull and unworthy of having my life or thoughts shared with anyone! But, a guy called David Capener (blogs at thebroadcast.org.uk), who is a New Frontierser from Norfolk is doing a series of interviews with non-NewFrontiersers about their experiences of New Frontiers. So there’s a little bit of background on who I am and some of my thoughts shared in light of attending the Brighton Conference. Check out the interview here.