Scott Sigler pimps the new book: Buying this book might not save Perry's balls, and it might make you loose sleep for a week, but you'll never regret it. books, video, youtube

So I suppose I should write up some thoughts on Friday nights Guns and Roses gig. During the concert I was updating my Jaiku with the set list and immediate thoughts, so lets start with simply running through what my thoughts were: At the guns and

Just returned from seeing Slayer and Mastodon play the St James. Dave Lombardo is the bomb on the drums but Slayer still doesn't really do it for me - from both a lyrical ad musical standpoint. It was quite surreal, and somewhat disturbing for the

A post in todays NZ Herald mentioned a new manga based Bible: A growing craze in Britain for manga, a Japanese style of comic packed with big-eyed, wild-haired characters, has inspired publishers to produce manga versions of William Shakespeare play

Ages ago I posted some video of the opening of Christian Life Centre Auckland's South City Centre opening to YouTube but for some reason the audio stream got cut off. I've finally gotten around to uploading the original video source to blip.

...spent a good two hours talking to an old friend whose been doing missions work in Madagascar and now the Sudan - talking about the use of (audio|video|text) blogging, VOIP, and other new-media topics in the missions field. Now I've got mad crazy i

Soul Purpose reports three new gigs (unconfirmed) coming up this year which should be quite fun to head along to: Anberlin (<a href= "http://www.myspace.com/anberlin">myspace) sometime in May/June Blindside (&l

After following a story on Blabbermouth about a one off reunited gig for the Up From The Ashes 2 festival I found the following video of Deliverance on YouTube: First off it was ripping all the Styper CDs to my iPod and now Deliverance - brin

Whilst tidying up the other day I found an old draft of a small skit about Jesus Christ and the psyche ward - this was written sometime around '95 during a day's road trip from Napier to Taupo and back.. Person Who is he? Orderly Don'

I just had the most bizarre out of the blue phone call. Some chick rings up and says "Hi, is this Mark? Who runs church.co.nz, the NZ Church search site?" "er, yes it is - I've not maintained the website for like 6 years, I didn't realize it actua

Tonight I went to church for the first time in a few weeks, and as I ran out the door I grabbed my new Moleskinne notebook so I could take some notes and hopefully not drift off to sleep again like last time. People often talk about 'really get

Just posted an xvid/ogg version of last nights church opening to youtube.com:

Last night I attended the opening of Christian Life Centre's new South City church and took a few photos of the event.  The location is great, the setup; sound; and lighting were amazing.  Kudos to everyone involved in setting everything up

Now, before the title of the post gets anyone worried, I've NOT gone suicidal... Tonight I saw The Amityville Horror, loved the film and I thought Ryan Reynolds did his character well, my only real beef with the film is there was no basement of bl

Holy freken hell - was talking to a friend on Saturday and he mentioned Living Sacriface got back together for a greatest hits with three new tracks... ...then on Sunday night at Church, I found 3 copies of the CD in the church store ( who hardly

Via Christdot I found an amusing article about the number of the beast: A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and tel

I seem to have made a stir when I commented on Daniels journal that for all his ranting against the bigotry and hatespeech of Destiny Church, he was sounding somewhat similar. Civil Unions are mainly for people who want to have the same rights tha

The other day I mentioned the baptism service at church and mentioned my dissagreement with those who say its a requirement for salvation, last night I opened my bible for the first time in ages and randomly opened it up to Luke 3:15-16: The peopl

This morning at church there was mention that in the evenings service a "random act of kindness" was going to be performed on an unsuspecting person, mild interest perked the brain...Later in the evening at tonights service, $ASSOCIATE_PAST

Earlier this evening in #smalltalk Michael asked me a fairly innocuous question: <michaell> how's your god today Mark? :) It was an odd question, especially for one to come out of the blue, a few years ago I had a friend who would occasi

so I hear theres this life group photo thing going on... Well, there message I saw about is was talking about photos that best "portraits" your life group, but that doesn't quite make sense. Unless the grammer is just bad and you're talking about

Quoting from this site:It has been said that in 120 minutes of film, 75 seconds are the Resurrection, leading some of the movie's critics to ask whether the film focuses too much on Jesus' suffering and not enough on his resurrection." The Star Tr

Several months ago I wrote the following while sitting in church: I'm falling down, down beneath into the ground I'm feeling lost, and I don't know how to turn around I'm not feeling lonely, but I'm feeling all bewildred I can't break this cycl

Spotted in Christdot - The Passion of the Christ is finally out there....

Spotted in Christdot - darn it - they stole my idea