Tag Archive - Ancon

O Breath of Life

July 7, 2009 in Music with 0 Comments

Ancon band pre-session

Ancon band pre-session

UPDATE: O Breath of Life is now available to listen to and download at noisetrade.com/TrevorHodge.

On Ancon, we had a visit from singer/songwriter Trevor Hodge. He came to teach us the song “O Breath of Life”. This song went off so much at Ancon that we recorded it, and it is online now at kirkplace.org.au.

It’s a live recording with the Ancon band, it almost feels like you’re within the congregation.

Trevor has also provided the words and sheet music for download for use with your own music teams.

If you would like to hear more from Trevor, you can buy his album “Bring You Praise” from iTunes or from his own website. I’ve listened to it and really enjoyed it.

But whatever you do, make sure you go to kirkplace.org.au and listen to “O Breath of Life”!

Replay – Ancon09 #2

July 6, 2009 in Bible with 0 Comments

Australia peopleA Christian has the Holy Spirit dwelling inside them.

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16

It’s not like the Spirit is there for a short amount of time either, God’s Spirit is inside us for good.

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 1:13

As Christians, we have the Spirit of God living inside us!

God’s Spirit has done some amazing things in the past. Throughout Acts we see incredible numbers of people coming into faith. In East Africa from 1933-1960, thousands of Africans came into belief. And in Melbourne, in 1902, 8642 people came into a relationship with Christ in 4 weeks.

If we have the Spirit of God inside us, then what cant we do within God’s will?

I believe that God is almighty, and if he dwells within us, then I believe that he can do amazing things through our weak bodies.

I have been convicted to pray for God to do great things, and I look forward to him using my weak body to serve him!

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Replay – Ancon09 #1

July 4, 2009 in Bible with 0 Comments

Ancon squareThe start of another recurring segment of my blog.

Replay.

With this I hope to reflect on past experiences and learn more from what I have already learnt. I do think reflection is awesome (See Reflection in Ministry).

First thing to look back at… Ancon09!

In this past week, me and 600 other people have been learning about the Holy Spirit. It was an amazing week and many people on Facebook have apparently caught “Ancon fever” (which refers both to an excitement and a sickness).

One thing that I did learn on Ancon was that the Holy Spirit is a great teacher! Jesus said

All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

John 14:25-26

He teaches us through the very words of God. He is a great teacher, and the fact that we have the very words of God with us today is amazing!

I just looked up the above passage on biblegateway.com in about 10 seconds. How incredible is it that the very words of God are so easily available to us!

But will I hear these words and write them on my heart, something I would like to do (which was suggested on Ancon) is to write down a verse to memorise each day, so that I can overflow with the words of God.

God’s word is amazing, and we have it today!

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My Body Is A Temple Of The Holy Spirit

June 30, 2009 in Music with 0 Comments

This is a work that I submitted to Artcon, which was an art show during AnCon. I thought that I would upload it for your enjoyment if you haven’t seen it yet (or want to see it again).

This piece is made almost entirely from a 3 second sample. Most of the sounds are derived from that sample. The video was then put together around the audio track.

Download here

Please feel free to use this video for your own use (you can even edit out the start if you would like).

(The video didn’t perfectly make it to youtube, it’s missing some silhouettes)

Ancon band practice #1

May 31, 2009 in Music with 3 Comments

Here are some pictures from behind the scenes of the Ancon band. We had our first practice yesterday, and it is going to be awesome to praise God with everyone on Ancon!

Set up time

Set up time

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Ancon on Facebook

May 28, 2009 in Technology with 0 Comments

Ancon is coming up soon!Ancon 09

Ancon is the sueu’s (Sydney Uni Evangelical Union) annual conferance. An awesome week of biblical teaching! I went last year and it was truly amazing. Last years topic was Justification, and this year will be on the Spirit.

Ancon is at the moment, being touted on Facebook by just about every member of the EU, and I think that anyone with any connection with friends in the EU, would find it hard to avoid hearing about Ancon.

There are a few strategies being used

  1. Change your middle name to “Ancon”
  2. Change your profile pic to Ancon pic
  3. Change your status to have Ancon in it somehow

Sounds pretty simple, and I think it will achieve it’s goal of awareness about Ancon being raised.

Thumbs up for Ancon on Facebook! Good work guys!