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Apostles’ Creed
29 Jun 2009I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, [...]
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- Tags: Baptism, Creeds, Discipleship, Liturgy, Uniting Church
Churchianity: when we miss the point
3 Jun 2009The ebb and flow of the [un]conscious conversations across the spaces always seems to converge on you. And, sometimes, they help you to notice stuff is perhaps more connected than you may have first thought. This blog post came about when I joined some dots, and made a connection.
In a post on his excellent blog [...]
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- Tags: Churchianity, Love
Virtual Community
In: Church| Community| Digital Ecclesia
3 Mar 2009Here is a first go at one of the subjects of discussion in the ebb and flow of the conversation is about the idea of ‘virtual community’. Of course, please don’t forget my all important disclaimer for my blog.
I think it is a subject that is likely to be kicked around for some time to [...]
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- Tags: Cosmology, Cyberspace, Existence, Internet
And I thought I was blunt
In: Church
17 Feb 2009I thought I was pretty blunt when it came to expressing my thoughts on this. Steve Lawson (via Mark Berry) definitely sums it up when he created this version.
Steve also gets to the heart of the issue when it comes to apologetics…
Regardless of my own beliefs/faith/whatever, I’ve always been baffled by posters stating ‘facts’ [...]
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- Tags: Advertising, Apologetics, Evangelism
On the buses
In: Church
11 Feb 2009As I went to bed last night another slogan for the side of a bus popped into my head.
So here it is thanks to the bus slogan generator…
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- Tags: Advertising, Apologetics, Evangelism
Bus Wars: Battle of the Slogans
In: Church
10 Feb 2009A while back Richard Dawkins and his atheist friends from the British Humanist Association started advertising on the side of buses in London. Their advert used the slogan, ‘There probably isn’t a God – now stop worrying and get on with your life’. This managed to get up the nose of some Christians who have [...]
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- Tags: Advertising, Apologetics, Evangelism
The Circuit Rider
My name is Dean Tregenza. My posts to this blog come from stuff on my notebook that I gather as I go about doing the things I do. The subject matter of the posts cover pretty much anything that comes to my mind. Some of it may be about technology related things. Everything I write is possibly heresy and wrong. For the record the content in the blog posts are not necessarily the opinions or the beliefs of the author, the people he quoted, or anyone else for that matter.
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Wedding Bills
In: Church| Community| Media Comment
18 Feb 2009This year I have a number of friends and family who are getting married. So when I was waiting for a coffee at Coffee Trails this morning I noticed an article in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph opened on the table about the cost of weddings.
According to the article, “the average combined cost of a wedding and [...]