Branch of David

Tomorrow night I’ll be using this animation at Collins Street Baptist Church, for the first Sunday of Advent.

It is based on the lectionary reading from Jeremiah 33:14-16. Just before this section, Jeremiah has been talking about how God has allowed the Babylonians to destroy Israel, because of their evil. But he says they will have another [...]

Blythe’s Advent reflections

I mentioned a couple of days back that Advent starts on Sunday. Advent is the time in the church calendar when we await the birth of Jesus, which we remember on Christmas Day. Blythe Toll has put together some reflections for Advent (scripture readings, queries, video), which you can find here.

All Things in Common

So last weekend I was down at Phillip Island for TEAR Australia’s Victoria Gathering. This year’s theme was ‘All Things in Common’. I was involved in running the ‘Hospitality and Inclusion’ workshop stream, and I was also setting up some installation art in the main auditorium and the ‘Praying in Hope’ space.
When we went down [...]

Praying with candles

During our prayer times, before lunch in Credo Café, we often light candles as symbols of our prayer. This might seem strange for a community that was started by Baptists (Baptists traditionally prefer words rather than visuals).
One of the reasons we use candles is that they help us to see. The first candle we light [...]

Urban Seed at Wipeout

Last night Tim and I visited Wipeout, which is a youth group at St Hilary’s in Kew, for year 7 to 9.
Tim talked a bit with the kids about homelessness.

Later on we had some time for everyone to interact with a number of stations we’d set up around the space.
Station 1: Home

Trentham

I put this together using photos and audio from a trip to Trentham a few weeks ago:

It’s not very interesting to just watch. It’s more for background ambience. Haven’t used it publicly yet.

Pentecost at Footscray

Marcus was doing a Pentecost service with the young folk at Footscray Baptist on Sunday. I’d agreed to help him with it, because I thought we were doing it the following weekend (we had a few changes of plans, and were both too busy to communicate properly). Because it was a week earlier than I [...]

Pentecost gathering tomorrow night!

I’ve been involved in putting together an alt-worship gathering for Pentecost, which will begin some time tomorrow evening, at Footscray Baptist Church, in Paisley Street. I don’t know how much of it I’ll actually be at, because I’ve got some young people from Canterbury Baptist visiting in the city the same night. (Me and Marcus [...]

Sweating blood, Footscray

Marcus has sent me these photos of my animations, which he had playing in the window of Footscray Baptist Church over Easter:
 

Good Friday at CSBC

Used my Gethsemane animations at CSBC last night. Len did a short sermon about difficult decisions – decisions that make you sweat. Decisions where you have to choose between hurting someone else or absorbing pain within yourself, as Christ chose at Gethsemane (Luke 22). After the sermon I invited people to think of a decision [...]