Category Archives: Church
Easter more important than Christmas
Easter is this weekend. Like most Christian “holidays” it is unlikely that it is actually the anniversary of the weekend Jesus died and rose again, merely the week we celebrate or remember that event. The origin of the word ‘Easter’ … Continue reading
Word vs Worship
January’s issue of the briefing had an in-depth look at the 2006 Hillsong conference and another couple of articles which discuss how different church movements use music in their services. This discussion comes at an interesting time for me as … Continue reading
Church music
Lots of church music kind of stuff going on at the moment. We had our New Music Day at church yesterday at which we learned 4 new songs and everybody got a bit of a run through how our PA … Continue reading
Growth groups
A couple of years ago, our church followed a lead initiated by the Archbishop of Sydney and renamed our small bible study groups Growth Groups. This was mainly done to emphasise the purpose of these groups. We do not meet … Continue reading
SNC Music Review 2006
2006 was an interesting year for music at Toongabbie Anglican Sunday Night Church (SNC). We started the year well, gaining a couple of new musicians and everyone had a pretty good level of enthusiasm. It was great to have Elise … Continue reading
Aussie Pilgrims Progress
Spotted and purchased at a Christian book store a couple of weeks ago, another of Kel Richards “Aussie” series of Christian fiction. Not fiction like his detective novels, more fiction like The Message by Eugene Peterson. Originally I purchased The … Continue reading
Daily Bread – bible reading resource
I’ve always struggled with self-discipline when it comes to reading the bible regularly or having a consistent prayer life. I’ve tried numerous different methods over the year but the only constant seems to be me failing to stick with them. … Continue reading
PraiseHymns
Last year for our church carols event we played some contemporary arrangements of classic carols. We got those from the PraiseCarols collection and we plan to use them again this year. The folk who produced that album and sheet music … Continue reading
New tunes
Popped into everyones’ least favourite Christian bookstore yesterday during my lunch hour. I bought some CDs for some new music. I know a lot of these songs will have music in my Soul Survivor Songbook 3 so it shouldn’t be … Continue reading
Atheist quotes
Spotted via del.icio.us: Atheist Quotes I’m inspired to post this link after following links from Neil & Petes’ blogs over the last few days to places like Undo Jesus. Reading the stuff on that site and others linked to it, … Continue reading