so tonite me and the beautiful val went to watch inception at the eikestad mall (no spoilers here, don't worry) and there was a queue for buying tickets from the counter and the ticket machine and then a huge queue in front of the cinema as it is a junction which means no specific reserved seats so we were making our way down the side of the cinema in the middle of a bit of [...]
so this past weekend and a bit myself and tbV were hanging at the house of dreadlock mike who got married to nancy the twin on saturday in an incredible ceremony and all and we had the most amazing time chilling at his folks house with richard and anita and little matt who is not so little in fact, matt is one of the biggest little guys i have ever met - kind of like [...]
well i could blog five hundred posts and i could blog five hundred more, just to be the man who blogged a thousand posts... something something dreadlock mike... but i won't, cos who would read them. in fact this is a me post so it doesn't really matter but suffice it to say yesterday's wedding between michael richard strauss and nancy leigh enslin at the secret garden resort in kzn was incredible. really triply amped [...]
so as part of a pretty incredible weekend up in the kwazulu of natal i managed to get some coffee time with john ellis (formerly of tree63 and 'john ellis has hung up his cross and become a giant piece of plasticine' fame) to hear his version of where he is at and whether he still loves Jesus (he does, whoops i hope that wasn't one of the 'between you and me' moments we shared, [...]
so my beautiful wife Val has posted this post on poverty and our gut reaction vs a more thort out one and it's a bit of a catch 22 of which one is right or not but the key thing it teaches is to think which is something we need more of in all aspects of life, and is often one of the most frustrating things about many christians who 'have the right answer' without [...]
or marrying the dreaded? i am leaving in an hour or so for the airport to head for durban where on sat i will be marrying dreadlocked mike and nancy the twin (just in case there is any confusion about the nicknames i have given these two, mike has dreads and nancy is a twin... smooth.) and i am so super amped - i have written my marriage licence test but i have yet to [...]
the conversation continues... copied this from facebook: Stew West: Hi, Thanks John for that, very cool - my heart still beats that story. Spot on! In response to some other posts. Some popcorn thoughts/reactions. I also think one needs to make a distinction between the word "church", as somewhere you go to o...n Sunday, verse 'being" The Church. I have also struggled sometimes, to point unchurched friends to some "sunday churches", because I didn't want [...]
i am not usually drawn into current world events to the extent that i research them and get quite involved - altho i do iafrica.com every day to keep up with what is happening in world, local, sporting and entertainment events - but for some reason this anne rice story has been following me - i found three links on her facebook page which i think are worth reading [while i 'get'/understand a lot of [...]
so i write a weekly email called thort for the week aimed at challenging people to live out what they say they believe and for this week i really felt like John Eliastam's comments on the Anne Rice note i wrote on Facebook really express well what a lot of Christ followers (and others) could well do with reading: In fact for this week’s thort let me use my former boss John Eliastam’s response to [...]
so last week at enGAGE (sun eve congregation gathering at stellenbosch vineyard church) we had over 40 people there including a bunch of first-timers and roymond preached up an elijah storm in his first ever preach on the firetruck in the desert and your buckets capacity... at the start of the service i challenged the congregation to be more committed in terms of choosing to hang with us more regularly (attendance can be a bit [...]