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KYCK This Weekend

April 23, 2010 in Kids/Youth with 2 Comments

This weekend is the final weekend of KYCK, and I’m going with a bunch of youth to Katoomba for the weekend to hear some talks on Ecclesiastes. I’m really looking forward to the weekend, it’ll be sweet!

KYCK 2010 Banner

I’m going to be Tweeting throughout the weekend and might even put up a blog post from my phone, but we’ll see how we go. If you want to follow my Tweets then you can here. Also, if you want to see all of the Tweets from KYCK, then go to this post by Dave Miers to see a list of all Tweets coming from KYCK.

Below is the advertising video for KYCK this year, and below that is a video I made reviewing KYCK from our youth group a few years ago.

KYCK is always a great weekend when thousands of young people are challenged by the gospel, the Christian message. Please join us in prayer, and if you haven’t been challenged yet, then read this.

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From the Bible this week: Colossians 2

December 15, 2009 in Bible with 1 Comment

This week I have been reading from Colossians in my quiet times (after listening to “I have hidden your Word in my heart“).

I have been really encouraged by chapter two as I have read through it.

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Colossians 2:13-15

It is awesome to know that Jesus has dealt with our sins, and the punishment that we deserve will no longer fall upon us! We are ALIVE in Christ. And through Christ’s death, we no longer need to conform to regulations and rituals. This doesn’t mean that we don’t obey God any more. But it means that we can worship God with freedom! How exciting is that!?

We don’t need to be focussed on how good we are at obeying rules, we need to focus on Jesus, and what he has done for the world. Let’s keep living for him, and working to glorify God.

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This blog will be…

May 12, 2009 in Technology with 0 Comments

Blog

Here are some things that I hope to keep too while writing this blog. Some thought has gone into this and a lot of it comes from my own ideas, as well as the ideas of Dave Miers and Chris Guillebeau and his manifesto titled “279 days to overnight success”. Having said that,

This blog will be…

  • Concise (short and sweet and easy to read)
  • Positive (although not always)
  • Regular (a few times a week)
  • Colourful (because pictures are pretty)
  • God focused (that’s what is important)

I think that’s a good base to build this blog off. And as you know, it will be about technology, education and life in general, all with a Christian perspective.

Here are some topics that I hope to cover in the near future

  • Public school vs Private school
  • Opportunities to use online social networks to serve God
  • iPhones serving God
  • The use of reflection in ministry
  • Mafia: Game of sin?
  • Easy ways to make great videos
  • Expertise in gifts

As well as some random stuff from around the web.

6 months to an evaluation of this whole blogging thing!

Why Blog?

May 11, 2009 in Technology with 7 Comments

Here is the first post by Calum Henderson, on a blog.Keyboard

In mid-semester break of semester 1 in 2009 I stumbled across an article about twitter and usernames. Basically saying that you should sign up for your name now while it is still available. Made sense to me, so I scored twitter.com/calumhenderson. Then I started using twitter, and got a bit excited by the possibilities to share ideas immediately with millions of other people (even 100s would do fine). I then talked to a guy at my church called Dave Miers, and he has thought a lot about this stuff (see his blog here), and he also encouraged me to get a blog.

So over the past month I have been considering it, and I will be testing out this site for about 6 months. Sharing ideas about education, technology and life, all with a Christian perspective. Doing this so that there can be a collaboration on these ideas, and also for personal reflection and collection of my own thoughts.

Hope you enjoy it…