S.P. Youth

Well, we finally have the second podcast edited and uploaded. For those of you that don't yet have the first podcast we've uploaded you can find it by clicking on the "Podcasts" category in the sidebar and looking for "Trees, Seasons and Shut up already!"

In this sermon, Pastor Adam offers us an insight into the continually unfolding plan of God's salvation, which is facilitated through Spirit filled believers. Believers who are not only bold, but able and capable of sharing the Faith. Missional issues such as Culture & Relevance are adressed in this continuing year-long theme of Holiness.

Direct link (right click + save link as)
Arise and Shine

Or, you can auto-subscribe by opening iTunes and clicking the "subscribe via iTunes" graphic in the syndication area of the sidebar.

Posted by Joshua Ballard at 5:19 pm | Permalink | Comments

Hey guys, you will be pleased to know that the podcast sermon that was once thought to be lost forever...is not lost forever. We were able to salvage the sermon, which is a good thing, coz I actually missed that service and found it to minister to me as I was editing it.

You will soon be able to find it on the iTunes podcast directory after our technical difficulties have been erased, which will basically mean that our podcast has a potential to reach about 40,000,000 odd people. But if it ever did get to be that big, our internet bill would be equivalent to the budget of a small developing nation.

We'll rob that bank when we get to it.

The link that I am providing on this post is the direct link to the actual file (right click + save link as), however, if you have an iPod, and use iTunes, or just use iTunes...You can click on the "subscribe via iTunes" image in the sidebar of our main page and your iTunes will automatically organize and download the files whenever we update the podcast. This means that your iPod will auto-sync with the latest of our sermons and you can have Adam yell at you through your iPod automatically.

Enjoy the first of our podcasts, many more will be coming over the weeks and months.

Trees, Seasons and Shut up!

Posted by Joshua Ballard at 6:00 am | Permalink | Comments

Hey all... Its 2:36 AM by my watch, and I have just finished implementing some of the new features for this site, to improve the interactivity and general browsing experience. The previous template we were using was causing problems with IE (Internet Explorer) and didn't really lend itself to much modification. That problem has been solved with the latest update, and I would still appreciate comments or insights on the features of the site.

As you may have noticed, we have introduced "Categories" on the sidebar which will help you find what you are looking for that little bit quicker.

We have also introduced a function where you can search by Author; which will search the blog for your chosen Author's posts and sort them by date. These little features don't really seem like much now, but later on down the track, they will be ridiculously helpful.

As for the Podcasts, they are coming soon. Minor technical difficulties have impeded our progress, but they will be sorted out soon enough.

The Weekly studies will be up before the next one is due out.

More and more stuff is coming, as Adam and I come across more and more stuff that we can implement here, so the value of this site is going to explode in the next few weeks, as it is something that Adam and I are extremely excited about.

Well, I'm off to bed.

Enjoy the latest updates.

Posted by Joshua Ballard at 2:43 am | Permalink | Comments

Hey Guys...Josh here,

I just thought that I would pop my head in the door and note that on the first day of being up online, we have had about 165 hits to our site...most from here in Sydney, but a couple from in the States. That's pretty damn impressive, and there is no telling what could happen when we get this thing out of the driveway.

As for now, I'm working with Adam on getting some content into this space, setting up seperate sections for all kinds of things that we plan on bringing you. There will be Events, News, Photoblogs, Adam's weekly teachings, and various downloadable audio stuff that we will be squeezing into a Podcast. When that hits, all kinds of cool is going to be unleashed.

The call is still out there for the comments. I want as much feedback from you guys as possible, bring us ideas...The previous statement still stands...if you want more, I WANT you to tell us. WE WANT you to tell us.

And if you haven't yet subscribed to our email feed, make sure you get into it. We're not selling the list for Russian Mail Order spam yet...but then again, that all really depends on the offerings on Friday.


In Summary: Stay tuned, there are HUGE changes coming, much more content, and much more interactivity. It's all for you guys...so ENJOY!


p.s. I was kidding about the Russian Mail Order spam bit...


p.p.s. Well....yeah, yeah, I was kidding.

Posted by Joshua Ballard at 1:08 am | Permalink | Comments

Hey guys,


Welcome to your website! Well, it's not REALLY your website, but it kinda is...this is the website for Solar-Powered Youth, and before you get into us about Pagan Sun-worship and all the rest....we know.

Seeing as we the designers don't REALLY have a designing bone in our bodies, we are recruiting YOU. Yeah, you...crazy idea, but we want YOU to contribute ideas and content for what YOU want this site to be.

This site will consist of weekly teachings, the occasional downloadable sermon, news and events, photos, random stupid stuff and links to sites that we like.

Other things that we are doing include setting pop-ups to go off all over your computer whenever you turn it on, except this time it won't be porn, but Jesus. Or something, it really depends on whether you subscribe to our spam list. We will also be adding a MySpace page, just so that we can be cool. God knows we need all the help we can get, after all, look at who we've got for our Youth Pastor.


p.s. I was just kidding about the Youth Pastor bit...


p.p.s. Well, kinda....


p.p.p.s. Well...yeah, yeah I was just kidding.

Posted by Joshua Ballard at 11:32 am | Permalink | Comments