my good buddy rob lloyd just got me a new bible because my old one was literally falling apart and i like the idea of starting again in a sense - rediscovering old favourite passages, underlining new ones, breaking the bible in so to speak... and as i sat and thought where to begin i decided to start with the psalms, and i don't know that i will necessarily read one per day but i [...]
AKA while the wife is away... so on my trip to canada recently i had a bunch of hours on the plane to get a little creative and so part of that time was spent coming up with a bunch of new brett andy one liners which you can read here and which are slowly being added to my blog... in addition to that i came up with this idea for a video series which [...]
i have seen this video around on FB for the last long while and wanted to check it out but not enough to actually do so and so i didn't til today - it's called 'Why I hate religion, but love Jesus' and it's a spoken word piece by a young guy called jeff bethke. i didn't watch it til i started skim reading this really good but really too long for me to read [...]
Val and i have started reading tim and kathy keller's book 'the meaning of marriage' and have found it to be the source of some great discussion and teaching into marriage - we don't agree with everything said but it has definitely given us a lot to work with and through and is a highly recommendable read. and then i stumbled on to this article by kathy keller titled - Don't Take It from Me: [...]
the story so far: the beautiful Val is in south africa for the wedding of her younger sister. i am not. tonite i cleaned house. earlier i was lying in the place of inspiration [the bath] and God spoke to me about a bunch of stuff i already knew [as you do] and about the serious need for me to, well, get serious, if i didn't want to get to the end of my time [...]
i shoveled snow this morning for the first time and it was quite enjoyable and i imagine i could never shovel snow again and be quite happy - it was a fleeting novelty for sure. altho i know that if it snows tomorrow i will have to shovel snow again. it will not be enuff that i shoveled it today. i cannot live off the memory of yesterday's shoveled snow. the same is true with [...]
it is 29 minutes til my birthday... well, for me anyways, my south african family and friends have been celebrating it for hours already, as have the few contacts i know in Australia and different friends across Europe... have not heard from so many UK friends yet, but they'll be waking up soon and joining in... and then when i sleep and wake up, americaland will have caught on and i will finally be able [...]
Yes, I said 'Live' not 'life' cos 'Live' is a verb. and cos it's me. my friend and former wedding photographer Bex Meissner sent me this link to a great article on the top five regrets people have before they die and it is well worth reading the whole article, but just to whet your appetite the top five regrets people mentioned are: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true [...]
stumbled upon these video clips of spoken word from a guy called David Bowden which i thort were too powerful not to share... this is the first one... and this second one on scripture i think is even more powerful Take ten minutes and enjoy and be inspired and challenged.
many of you already know the history, but for anyone who may not... in the beginning there was Jack Handey and such winners as: "It’s sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs." [Jack Handey] "Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words [...]