'Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove explain why community worship and prayer—not just "action"—are so vital.' take a read at some of the ideas that shane claiborne has on the importance and place of prayer in your community living...
so there is a cartoon called 'buttersafe' which is pretty randomish and edgy on occasion but can be very funny and out there on a different occasion and this one i found really good - the answer to one of life's burning questions... check it out
i found this story in some scripture union global strategy notes i was reading thru... i read it. i smiled. 'The fields were parched and brown from lack of rain, and the crops lay wilting from thirst. People were anxious and irritable as they searched the sky for any sign of relief. Days turned into arid weeks. No rain came. The ministers of the local churches called for an hour of prayer on the town [...]
i send out a weekly email message called thort for the week aimed at challenging and encouraging Christ-followers to really live out what we say we believe - i thort i'd share this week's with my blog [if you would like to receive the weekly messages simply email brettfish@hotmail.com with the email address you would like it sent to and a 'please add me' subject line] - trust you enjoy... I was sent this psalm [...]
so yesterday morning the beautiful val and i headed out to muizenberg for my super surprise birthday morning where we weere met by one of my best friends rob lloyd and his wife nicky and went for an hour's worth of blokarting on the beach which in a nutshell is like a combo between windsurfing and go-karting and a whole lotta fun. you get a three wheeler cart thing with a huge sail and armed [...]
so while i'm figuring out this whole podcasting thing [next step is to send it out via itunes which i know how to do but haven't gotten around to doing yet] i thort it would be fun to try some silly stuff - will try my first thort for the week audio next week and so i have started a series where i read out the lyrics to a well known song because it is [...]
so i read this article in the restaurant this morning while waiting for my buddy to arrive. firstly it was set in miami secondly the premise of it is completely hilarious slash disturbing as in this line: 'burglars snorted remains of a man and two dogs in the mistaken belief that they had stolen illegal drugs' thirdly, that's not the best part fourthly it goes on 'once they realised their error the suspects discussed returning [...]
don't cast pearls before swine... that's how it goes, right? i mean Jesus said it and everything (matthew 7.6) but here is another take on that perhaps? use it, don't use it... i've been listening to a song by the foo fighters (what is foo? do you think they maybe originally started out as 'the flu fighters' and then someone typo'd their name and the rest is history... and if you started a band and [...]
read this post by john of ellis this morning which my beautiful wife val alerted me too saying it was rather good and the message there is exactly spot on. the book 'unlearning' is written by my friend sean tucker and his blog is definitely worth checking out as well take a read here or find sean's blog over here - i don't always agree with everything he says - and i generally enjoy his [...]
it's my birthday today, and i AM 37 (i know, shock horror gasp, no ways, whatever) but i thort it would be a great day to post one of the greatest conversations from Monty Python's 'The Quest for the Holy Grail' that i finally relate to... [clop clop] ARTHUR: Old woman! DENNIS: Man! ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry. What knight live in that castle over there? DENNIS: I'm thirty seven. ARTHUR: What? DENNIS: I'm thirty seven [...]