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2 videos for Christmas

This past week our church ran the carols in the school we meet in. Its a great opportunity for our church to be showing our love for the school by running an event for them.

Because we are running it, I had the pleasure of doing all the graphics and videos for the night. Unfortunately, I completely ran out of time and couldn’t put together all three videos we needed (i was also preaching this past week). I only had time for one.

So we ended up buying these two videos. I think they are both great. The first one is from the-ve, and the second is from Dan Stevers.

 

Bloodlines. Race, The Cross and the Christian.

Recently I had the pleasure of sitting under the teaching of John Piper at the engage conference. John Piper has a new book which is all about racism and the gospel’s response to it. This is a video that Desiring God recently made to promote the book.

I think it is really worthwhile watching.

It’s below if you have 18 minutes free. Maybe stop doing what you are doing and watch it anyway.

A video from Unearthed Pictures.

I’m back. Exams are done. First year of college is done. Time to get back to posing. I have a fair bit of stuff to share over the next 2 weeks. I’m looking forward to it.

 

Firstly, I wanted to share this video with you from Unearthed pictures. It is about Unearthing sexual exploitation of women. Before you watch the video, here are some quotes from The Resurgence blog.

When Unearthed was formed, we had our hearts set on producing a documentary that would expose the mechanics of the global sex trade. For a solid year, we traveled, filmed, raided brothels, rescued victims, and had our hearts crushed by the magnitude of sexual brokenness that surrounded us. You can watch some of that work here.

We all have responsibility to the victims of this injustice, and we’re thrilled that 85% of the money that comes into our doors goes right back out to some of the best organizations in the world that rescue, rehabilitate, and reintegrate the women & children that live in this hell.

Jacob’s story in the video [below] isn’t an isolated incident. Jesus is continually transforming abusers into protectors; addicts into free men and traffickers into rescuers. Over the next year, we’re creating a film called The Hearts of Men. It’s a raw, unfiltered examination of how sin distorts sex, who’s affected, and how the Gospel changes all of it. We know that to win this war, we need to engage men and right now they aren’t just asleep on the battlefield, they’re fornicating on it. A generation of God’s sons need to be reminded who they are in Christ: chosen, washed, sanctified, and justified.

Now watch the video.

Happy Birthday iPod

The iPod turns 10 today. The original iPod could hold 1,000 songs within its 5 GB of memory. Huge!

The iPod has come quite a long way since then, and quite a lot was said at the time of the first iPod. This quote is my favourite of all the responses on MacRumors.

All that hype for an MP3 player? Break-thru digital device? The Reality Distiortion Field is starting to warp Steve’s mind if he thinks for one second that this thing is gonna take off.

Ten years on, the iPod has sold over 304 million units. I think it took off.

Watch these two videos. One is from 2001, the other is from this year.

2001

 

2010

The Paper Kites

Recently I took Kirsty to see Josh Pyke play at the metro in Sydney. I bought her the tickets for her birthday.

Josh Pyke’s music has a special significance for us. The last time we say him play was the night I asked Kirsty to marry me.

The night was great, the music was excellent.

One of the things I love about live music is hearing the great support bands that come before the main act. This night was no exception.

Supporting Josh Pyke was a band called The Paper Kites. We loved seeing them for the first time, and we bought their EP the other day. This is a video of my favourite song on the EP. It’s called ‘Featherstone’. Kirsty’s favourite song is called ‘Bloom‘.

Check them out. They might just be the band that we listen to over summer.

9/11: Recovering, Remembering and Rebirth

I wasn’t going to write anything about 9/11.

I have never really felt the loss of someone that was close to me, and I have never really been affected my any disasters.

I just felt that anything that I could say wouldn’t be appropriate. Mainly because I don’t know the kind of pain that people feel after an even like this.

That being said, I felt compelled to recommend an excellent documentary that we watched on Sunday night. It is called Rebirth. Rebirth is a documentary about the individual stories of of people and how their lives have been shaped by September 11. The basic premise was to interview the same 5 people each year after 2001 to 2011.

It is really a great documentary. Seeing how each of these people were affected my the loss of husbands, mothers and best friends brought Kirsty and I to tears on more than one occasion, and seeing how they moved on with living was even more moving.

Here is the trailer. If you are in Australia you can watch it for free on iView.