so we wait with bated breath til some Christ-followers can actually write, direct, film and act in a movie that is worth watching... there have been some that come close but at the moment it's still 'secular' movies like The Blind Side and Dead Man Walking that seem to portray Christian love, grace, acceptance and forgiveness better than any 'Christian' film i am yet to see, and i sadly still believe that most 'Christian' movies [...]
christopher walken reading lady gaga poker face lyrics - so so smooth... oh oh ah oh oh
so sunday nite i made a space for testimonies for people to share what God has been doing in their lives... the second person who got up was a man named P (well not really, but let's call him that for now) who i know pretty well from being around church and from having an amazing story of being homeless and God and the church bringing transformation in his life and so now he and [...]
i really enjoyed enGAGE (our sun evening congregation) tonite i was away for two days this week so didn't do my traditional thursday morning sermon prep and so yesterday (sat) i put some stuff together and it felt decent, but when i was looking over it today it suddenly clicked into place and i really felt super amped about it and then when i was preaching tonite i just had a sense of God telling [...]
ah, this read makes me happy sneak into cricinfo to check out latest cricketing news and confirm a great pakistan victory over england to see the usa have won a comprehensive division four title... but what makes it a happy place moment is reading the three line-ups: usa beat italy by eight wickets for first and second place nepal (yes, you read that right) crushed tanzania (again!) by ten wickets for third and fourth and [...]
if the church i am a part of is not reflecting Jesus to a considerable extent (who He was, what He taught, how He lived) then surely at some point i have to question whether it is church at all...
one of my weekly thort for the week reader friends wrote me an email containing this line: 'It doesn’t matter how much doctrine I know, if I don’t reflect the God I serve in my daily life, it’s pointless.' which in essence is a paraphrase of James 2 - faith without works is dead - and James 1.22 don't just read it, do it. and it was part of an email from a guy who [...]
deadantsdeadaaaaaaaants....dead dead dead dead dead ants [to the tune of the pink panther song] don't get me wrong, i'm not scared of ants. or maybe more accurately, i'm not scared of ant. how can you be scared of ant? small little random creature you can squish with a thumb. but we all saw what happens when woody allen gets them all organised into a multi-ant killing machine... so antS...? little more nervous... if the ones [...]
i wonder if peter jackson found directing the lord of the rings trilogy hobbit-forming?
for they will be seen as human! i'm not sure why i was thinking about this today but i was driving back from dropping off our recycling (oh wait, it just hit me, never mind) and this thort came in to my head - i wish that i knew how to relate to handicapped people better when i was a little kid my folks used to take me to this place called the Avril Elizabeth [...]