It’s been a long but rewarding day for me and Cheryl. We’re mentally decompressing from an awesome first day at Impact 2010 Bible Conference, sitting here reflecting on the day just gone. The drive down was relatively uneventful- we left at 7 a.m., had a filling lunch at Pizza Hut, and made it to Riverbend …
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Impact 2010 – Looking forward to the long weekend
I’m looking forward to the upcoming long weekend because Cheryl and I are heading down for this year’s Impact Bible Conference, hosted at Riverbend Bible Church in Hastings, New Zealand. Last year I had the privilege of going with a large contingent from HBC (I blogged about it here), and this will be Cheryl’s first …
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Songs to suffer well
Our home church has been going through a preaching series on suffering and the sovereignty of God. Before the series began, Pastor Peter and the rest of the worship leaders agreed that the congregational songs during this time needed to help the church to worship and praise God amidst trials and sufferings, in a …
On marriage and the name game
One of the questions Cheryl and I worked through soon after our marriage was the issue of changing her name. We talked and prayed it through for a couple of days during our honeymoon, before she eventually decided to adopt my family name and become a “Chong”. Thankfully In New Zealand it’s pretty convenient to …
STAND 2010 Video online
It’s taken awhile but video for the general sessions of the STAND conference are now available online: The five sessions are: Session 1 – Standing Firm on the Sufficiency of Scripture Session 2 – Standing Firm on the Centrality of the Gospel Session 3 – Standing Firm: A High View of God in Evangelism Session …