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Unichurch Partnership

Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

As semester 2 gets underway, we're launching a new course: the Unichurch Partnership course. Over 3 weeks we will be looking at God's word and hearing from Rory, thinking through what we believe as a church, what our mission is ...

The Prodigal God

Monday, April 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Did you know that there’s a parable about a wayward son returning to his father in Mahayana Buddhism? It comes from the Lotus Sutra composed at the end of the 2nd century AD. The setting is similar to Jesus' parable of ...

hungry? always…

Saturday, February 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Yesterday Jen raised the question of fasting and it got me thinking... Right off the bat, my impression would be that fasting is a normal commonplace thing in the New Testament that everyone does but that we don't really do... ...

Unichurch video

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Over the last 15 months you've been able to stream videos of the preaching at Unichurch on the website; but that can be a hassle, particularly if you're on a slower internet connection. As of this week the videos ...

God works on another scale

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

I had a discussion with Rory recently about how you evaluate success in ministry.  For the interns at Unichurch this isn't an academic question, accountability in ministry is important and formal evaluation to identify areas for improvement -while daunting - ...

Unichurch camp talks… Coming Soon

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Some people missed camp last weekend which is a shame for them, as you can see from this photo of Oscar, it was an awesome weekend packed with great talks and good times! You may have landed at the website ...

Bible Software #2 All about Swords

Sunday, March 15th, 2009 Posted in Online resources, Software | 2 Comments »

If you're new to Bible software and low on cash, there's really no reason not to start here. Free. Everybody likes free stuff and there's no reason not to give it a go. What are the options? This is obviously not an ...

Bible Software #1

Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Books, Miscellaneous, Theology | No Comments »

I've recently had conversations with several people discussing the merits of different bible software, and perhaps it would be useful to commit some of these thoughts to paper. Over a series of posts I will compare some of the options ...

Look at you

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Fun | 1 Comment »

What's worse, being patronised by your food? Or having to concede it has a point?

Hear the Word

Sunday, February 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

One of my New Year's resolutions this year was to try to be more disciplined in reading the scriptures regularly and thoughtfully, by following the M'Cheyne bible reading plan. This is certainly the most ambitious I've been, the plan goes ...