Andrew Judd 
Here’s a big claim: I think that almost all the most serious problems we run into when it comes to church gatherings have to do with a confusion between saving worship and saved worship. Jesus’ saving worship Saving worship is the worship that saves us. You may have experienced in your own life how easily … Read more…
On Sunday night I had the great pleasure of taking part in a panel on ABC radio’s Sunday Nights, with Noel Debien in the moderator’s chair. I was invited on to explain my (admittedly perhaps a bit too complex) thoughts as presented in my last blog post (“I hope the marriage equality bill achieves its … Read more…
I believe in the Biblical vision of marriage as the voluntary union of one man and one woman for life. And yet I think there are good Biblical reasons for Christians to applaud Bill Shorten’s motives in proposing amendments to the Marriage Act. And if passed, I hope it does achieve its goals.* This may … Read more…
In this final post I want to detail some of the core features that our brief required, and how we addressed each. This will hopefully be useful to other churches, as many of our functionality requirements will be common to most church websites. Security As the site deals with personal information (including processing credit cards) … Read more…
To save time and money, the team decided not (at this stage) to commission a specialist web designer to create custom templates and stylesheets for our pages. (This is something which we could still invest in in the future, but for now we were pretty confident that the biggest improvements were to be made elsewhere). … Read more…
Having defined the problem to be solved (see part 1) we began a process of clarifying our content, by answering these two questions: what content do we really needed on the site, and how should it be arranged so people can find it? This was very much a back and forth type process – try … Read more…
I’m an Anglican minister, which means that technology and I have already gotten off on the wrong foot. Most of the churches I’ve been involved with have struggled to maintain any sort of functional website – you know, like one that tells you church service times which were accurate at any point in the last … Read more…
This is a baffling thing for Jesus to pray: Matt. 26:39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Jesus is hours away from being betrayed by … Read more…
I’ve got a problem with most books on masculinity. Actually, I can think of three: When I was growing up my chosen sport was playing piano. The last time I tried to chop my own firewood we very nearly froze. I have never been invited to go riding bareback with Mark Driscoll. And when I … Read more…
It’s just after lunch on the day of a new art exhibition. Tonight a great artist will unveil her beautiful masterwork, her life’s work. You’ve come to take a sneak peek at the show. But something is terribly wrong. Walking through the front door you stop dead in your tracks. Your brain scrambles to process … Read more…