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Ben

Ben has written 54 posts for Check 1-2

dundasanglican.com.au

Launched my new church website today. dundasanglican.com.au There are still a few pages of content to write, but all the main features are in place and I’m really happy with how its looking.

Gmail for your church

I’m in the process of setting up gmail to handle our church’s emails. Google have a service called Google Apps – it’s free for non-profits – and it allows you to use Gmail on your domain. That’s nice. It means we can have ben@dundasanglican.com.au (rather than ben@gmail.com) etc etc.
There are two factors that made this [...]

An Australian Accent Audio Bible?

Nick and I were talking this morning about how there’s not much around by way of audio Bible’s in the Australian accent.
All I could find was was a Good News New Testament with background music here.
And if you want to make your own – licensing is problem…
but I just found this from our friends at [...]

Keep Fresh

Why do so many church websites look dated and stale?
I reckon part of the problem is an over ambitious ideas about the kinds of content that will be available.
You build your site thinking ‘wouldn’t it be great to have a photo gallery’. It would, but if no one is taking a steady stream of good [...]

Why I love Moore College

Our principal John Woodhouse has just posted an addresshe delivered the college a few weeks ago on the Sydney Anglicans site. John outlines some of the key challenges facing the Moore College and initiates a conversation about responding to them.

Sermon Branding

Hans has some great thoughts on sermon branding.

not by faith alone?

I’m working on a sermon for Sunday on James 2:14-26. It’s the ‘faith and works’ passage- a great passage which insists that real, saving faith is active, visible faith… But one verse has always bugged me. v24 … But tonight I saw something that I hadn’t noticed before.

What is a blog?

There is a good discussion going on over at the sola panel about blogging. Started off as a discussion on post-length but its turned into a lively look at the way the whole blog-medium works.

I saw this cartoon on the wall of the pizza place

I bought a pizza from dough boy the other day and they had the Leunig calendar on the wall. I liked his cartoon for this month. It is a great apologetic for the resurrection.

Jesus all about life

I’ve heard a lot of talk about the Bible Society’s Jesus all about life campaign which includes a set of TV ads that are coming to Sydney’s free-to-air channels later in the year. But I realised that I haven’t actually seen the ads… so here they are: