Wear sunscreen. This article was originally published in the Chicago Tribune by Mary Schmich and then recorded by Baz Luhrmann.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable [...]
Archive for January, 2009
24 Jan
Attention all humans … non humans need not apply
19 Jan
You May Quit Your Job or Dump Your Girlfriend … eeeek
Today in church I was inspired to stop and think about what it would be like if I just dropped everything, all ritual, all tradition, all responsibility, all care, all financial cares.
I was more so inclined to apply this to my ministry, how would it look if I stopped doing it the way I always [...]
17 Jan
Community
In his more recent post, Nick Charalambous talks about community, which as most topics do, got me thinking about that exactly same issue.
We live in community
We like community
Our community annoys us
We’d like to be selective of who is in our community
Community is a nice fluffy word
Community has the words common and unity in it
Community sounds [...]
16 Jan
National Day of Service
Seth Godin always packs a punch in his/blog, and today is no different. Below is his suggestion for how you could spend the American National Day of Service. Now I know that a large majority of my readers are not American and Martin Luther King is not someone we annually celebrate, but you can’t take [...]
15 Jan
The Voice
Any literary project reflects the age in which it is written, starts the preface of “The Voice”. It’s a scripture project to rediscover the story of the bible.
Without completely ripping off it’s preface, here’s one more thing that I liked. There are four key words that describe the vision of the project:
holistic – considers heart, [...]
14 Jan
The Daily Mercury – 14/01/09 – The Front Page
Link to the newspaper’s website
Credit goes to Andrew Evans for seeing the newspaper, taking the photo and ringing me and telling me about it because I don’t live in Mackay anymore. Much love to u evanzie.
14 Jan
Reply from Telstra
In reply to my letter to Telstra last week, Jessica from the BigPond Team has replied back with a senseless email about full service blah blah.
Dear Joshua,
Thank you for your feedback in response to Justin Milne’s recent email, my name is Jessica.
BigPond® is a full service ISP, meaning the cost of a BigPond plan includes [...]
13 Jan
A story of change
It’s a nieve view of the world for me to think that the only things worth blogging about are amazing changes in my life or my thinking. so here’s one about someone else who is a part of what is happening at lifechurch.tv:
I Love My Church – Invasions from LifeChurch.tv on Vimeo.
12 Jan
10 Day Internship in Audio/Visual Production at SURFCiTY
In February SURFCiTY has 5 spots available for a 10 day audio/visual production internship.
This is a really good opportunity for a young person who is committed to their home church, particularly in regional Queensland, who would like to involve themselves in a metropolitan based church for a large scale event and walk away with a [...]
12 Jan
Walking by faith in 2009
In today’s staff meeting Pastor Richard encouraged us to walk by faith in 2009, he brought 4 points for the year. They are 4 things I’ll be doing this year, maybe it’s something you can do as well.
Stir yourself – 2 Timothy 1:6
Focus yourself – Jeremiah 33:3
Fuel yourself – Ecclesiastes 10:10
Expand yourself – Proverbs 27:17
Pastor [...]
