Text & Context with Piper & Friends

Today I watched some good conversation between some favourite church leaders from the States making waves through the Acts 29 leadership network and The Resurgence. For some deep insights from the likes of theologian and pastor John Piper and his younger Acts 29 cohorts Mark Driscoll and Matt Chandler, check out the Q&A session from the Text & Context conference on The Resurgence

Martin Smith's Compassionate Art

Delirious' Martin Smith has managed to assembly somewhat of a Gospel/Worship dream team for a project called CompassionArt, which has been launched with a cd and accompanying book with material that came out of a retreat earlier this year where the artists came together for a week of prayer and songwriting in the Scottish highlands.

Mr. Smith has managed to convince each of the heavyweights to give away the rights and royalty money from each of the songs written for the project to charity, in an attempt to combine art with compassion and generate money for causes like Stop the Traffik and Hand of Hope. Word has it that even Coldplay's Viva la Vida release was put back by a week to accommodate the Abbey Rd. studio time needed to complete the project. Next thing we know Ringo and Paul will be contributing to the project!

To find out more, go to www.compassionart.tv

All Neue Quarterly

Yesterday my subscription to the all new ministry resource from Neue kicked in and manifested itself in the mailbox in the form of a brand-spanking first edition of the Neue Quarterly. Conveniently, it found it's way to my porch the afternoon before my day off work, so today, I'm reading Neue...

To check out the accompanying site, or even better, to order your own copy and start supporting these guys, go to www.neueministry.com