[Kid Inspiration]

Sunday the 23rd April in our 9:30am service Brooklyn, now 2 months old, gets dedicated.

What a striking family we are, I mean have you ever seen such good looking people this side of a Hollywood red carpet?

Pastor Robert Fergusson on stage with the eight families dedicating their little sparks and growing our Children’s Ministry one [...]

Tilt! - By Louis Patler
2000 Capstone Publishing
Irreverent lessons for leading innovation in the new economy.

So this book was written in 1999, a good 7 years ago, so it was interesting to read Louis’ perspectives now in the light of years of progress.
This is a business management book… I seem to be reading a lot of [...]

6/6/06
Spooky isn’t it - 666…
True to form, a bunch of marketers have taken notice of this interesting date:
A few things happening on the day.

The remake of the film The Omen opens in the US
Ann Coulter’s new book Godless is released
Heavy-metal band Slayer’s Unholy Alliance Tour: Preaching to the Perverted
Music from by David Lee Roth - [...]

ANZAC Day - 25 April - is probably Australia’s most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First [...]

Seven Miracles of Management - Alan Downs
1998 Prentice Hall.
This is a very business focused management book, but written from a spiritual sense… hence the word miracle. It talks of 8 ‘miracles’: Manifestation, Reciprocity, Honesty, Forgiveness, Passion, Esteem, Transcending the Past.
Well written book… not too long.
Highlights:
Managing is nothing more than taking people, materials, and funding, and [...]

So I have a series of jokes on this blog (click the jokes link at the top left of this site). I got to thinking that I should have a book review series as well (prompted by kidology.org forum)
I have read a number of books on speed reading… in fact I just got out of [...]

Sydney is a very fast city, the pace is fast, the cars are fast (at least at 3am when the traffic is sparse), we work fast. Even in a church setting where there are no sales targets and no quarterly profit reports there are deadlines.
So something I am going to do after reading a blog [...]

In God We Trust
Article from youth Magazine Radar, interesting perspective from the media on the current interest in spirituality in Australia.
I wonder how this is affecting children? Are they growing up with this interest in God?

David Sifry (technorati.com) produces another “State of the Blogosphere”
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000432.html
The numbers are pretty astounding:
In summary:

Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
19.4 million bloggers (55%) are [...]

I haven’t seen it yet. But after receiving some very good reviews from some quite reliable reviewers… a couple kids and some kid-like adult friends, I am really looking forward to it.
Explore the message behind the media over at damaris.org to read a nice piece on the movie that you can expand to talk about [...]