The Sola Panel

A new blog from Matthias Media. As the header says, “The Sola Panel is a group of Reformed-Evangelical friends who love the five ‘solas’ of the Reformation, and want to promote a Bible-driven passion for theology, holiness and gospel ministry.” Should be a good blog to keep tabs on.
(h/t to Gordo, who just so happens [...]

Should girl mags lavish their readers with sex content?

The publishers of Dolly and Girlfriend magazines are claiming that their pubescent readership wants responsible sexual material that will help their development, and that the content that they offer fulfils those requirements. Hence they are rejecting calls for them to print an age audience recommendation on their magazines. The report from News LImited suggests that [...]

This is a knife…

Mick Dundee never saw this creation from Swiss Army Knife makers Wenger coming. Not that it’s by any means a value for money implement, IMO.
(h/t Andersonjoe711 from the thinkpads.com forum)

100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time

Read them here (as voted on by Guitar World readers). Compare this to another list of top guitar solos (which I think is far more accurate – which is of course slightly subjective, but how Hotel California’s solo can be left off the Guitar World list is beyond me. That, and Kurt Cobain is nowhere [...]

Harbhajan Singh and trouble hand in hand once more

Claims that Harbhajan (playing with Mumbai in the Inian Premier League) lashed out and slapped international team mate S Sreesanth (playing for Kings XI Punjab) at the end of the teams’ clash yesterday will be investigated tomorrow according to Cricinfo. It seems that Sreesanth merely said something along the lines of “hard luck” to Harbhajan [...]

Zimbabwe opposition win confirmed

A recount has confirmed that Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party has lost the parliamentary election, and that the results of the presidential election should be finalised tomorrow. Let’s hope that Mugabe recognises that the people that he has ruled over have voted him out, and that he doesn’t use corecive force to somehow invalidate a democratic [...]

City and Country Origin teams

City Origin:
Brett Hodgson, Jarryd Hayne, Ben Pomeroy, Brett Delaney, Luke Rooney, Braith Anasta, Mitchell Pearce, Jason King, Corey Hughes, Mark O’Meley, Luke Lewis, Mark Minichiello, John Sutton.
Interchange: Bryce Gibbs, Ray Cashmere, Feleti Mateo, Peter Wallace.
Country Origin:
Brett Stewart, Joel Monaghan, Jamie Lyon, Matt Cooper, Anthony Quinn, Todd Carney, Brett Finch, Brett White, Danny Buderus (capt), [...]

Should a church music ministry hire non-Christians?

My mother subscribes to the newsletter emailed by the website worshipideas.com, and whilst setting up her Outlook Express after the family bought a new computer, a portion of the newsletter caught my eye. Don Chapman asks (and answers) the question of whether a church should hire non-Christian musicians to support their music ministry. He cites [...]

Retro running

Until a few minutes ago whilst listening to 2GB’s Continuous Call Team, I’d never have imagined that there was a world championship for retro running (that is, running backwards). Here’s a page that explains the merits of this unorthodox pastime. According to Ray Hadley, the world record for the backwards 100m sprint is around 13.6 [...]

A day of prayer for Zimbabwe

The Christian church in this strife torn nation is struggling with persecution and suppression as sects and traditional African religion is being elevated by the government. Andrew Robinson, a friend of mine and former workmate who is working with a church in Johannesburg, has spoken with a Zimbawean theology student and it’s clear that our [...]