I'm loving the satirical news posted over at NewsBiscuit and this particular article caught my eye! ‘Supply vicars’ unable to control unruly congregation Rural parishes unable to find permanent members of the clergy have been forced to bring in supply vicars whose inexperience and lack of authority has made them vulnerable to ...

Dear God is a website where people send in their 'prayers' to be posted on the site. Similar to the creative confessional Postsecret, the site allows people to express their emotions and sentiments to whatever higher power they believe in. It doesn't matter what your version of God is... Jesus, Allah, Buddha or simply a spiritual universal energy... praying to a higher power soothes and heals. It's scientifically proven that people who pray are ...

Just a quick post to say that we had an EXCELLENT church service this morning totally prepared and led by the young people! As part of the World Vision 24 Hour Famine, the group fasted from 6pm Saturday night and then delivered a creatively challenging service on the theme of global poverty. As well as leading the worship, they hosted the event, gave the notices, created some short videos, did a dance and a drama, an activity for the kids, built a ...

I have to be honest; I just don't get dancing in church! That may be a strong statement to start off a blog post, so let me elaborate a little here. I do understand the medium of dance as a creative expression, and I appreciate it in things such as ballets or stage performances. I understand it as a response to the rhythm in music and I can comprehend how people enjoy and participate in dance. I even understand it as an expression of joy and worship ...

Being a fan of super hero comics and Japanese anime, I was delighted to hear of Mecha Manga Bible Heroes, a futuristic retelling of David and Goliath complete with huge armoured robots (mecha) drawn in a manga style! Alongside the various other comic and manga Bibles starting to spring up, this version will be most welcome. For more, check out the Manga Bible series starting with 'Names, Games and the Long Road Trip' and working it's way through the ...

No, he wasn't heavily into some computer game, instead former youth pastor Calvin Wayne Inman, 29, has been charged for the death of a convenience store clerk during a robbery. He was 16 at the time. Apparently after being recently ordained and with support from his church, Inman went to the Police and confessed to the murder he ...

Our local leaders fraternal ;) Since starting my role at ACC, I've spent a bit of time meeting up with Youth Workers from other churches in the local area. Although there's a few of us, a gathering had rarely happened before and so it's been good to share coffee, stories, and recently events with these other men and women of faith. ...

I came across this quote on Taking Thoughts Captive from Martin Luther the German theologian and reformer from the 16th century regarding how Christian parents should raise their children: If [bringing up children in the fear and knowledge of God above all things] were done, God would also richly bless us and give us grace to train men by whom land and people might be improved. He would also bless us with well-educated citizens, chaste and domestic ...

There's been a lot of activity recently in people mapping data from the Bible into visual representations. Chris Harrison took the King James Version and produced some beautiful images based on the connections between the passages, before developing a social network representation and distribution of people and places like the image below. The background is the entire text of the Bible. Floating above it are all of the biblical names. These are ...

Reaching out without selling out Although I've known of Pastor Mark Driscoll for some time due to his exposure in the emerging church scene, I'd never read anything of his directly until a friend gave me this to read during our recent holiday. I have to say, that although sceptical when I picked it up, I loved this book! The main thrust of the book is about getting back to the business of sharing the gospel with the world by being present in the ...