there is a verse from revelations which has been running thru my head - it's the one where john has the vision of the messages given to the seven churches and is found in rev 3.1-3 and says, "i know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. wake up! strengthen what remains and is about to die, for i have not found your deeds complete in the sight of [...]
there is a verse from revelations which has been running thru my head - it's the one where john has the vision of the messages given to the seven churches and is found in rev 3.1-3 and says, "i know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. wake up! strengthen what remains and is about to die, for i have not found your deeds complete in the sight of [...]
so i was thinking about this today and i think i tend to slip into writing stuff (sometimes) for the blog with a half eye on how many hits it will get and 'how popular it is becoming' [it's not] and so on and i really want to get back to the original intention which was to express my thorts and mind and dreams and wrestlings and humourisms here mainly for me - i do [...]
so last nite the beautiful val and myself went off to support theatresports stalwart megan furniss' new directed play 'Good Will Acting' at the Kalk Bay theatre, strangely enuff in Kalk Bay and had a really fun and delightingful time. you should go! no really, do it! the two part play revolves around the concept of four out of work actors (the corporate they were booked for was cancelled) during the december holidays who eventually [...]
if you haven't read 'The Irresistible Revolution' by shane claiborne yet, then you don't have to, but i would highly recommend it, altho it may wreck you as a compromising comfortable christian and start turning you into a revolutionary Christ-follower - read what he has to say about the season... 'Critiquing the thick irony of the Christmas season is fair. It's ludicrous that we celebrate the birth of the homeless baby Jesus by indulging in [...]
thankx to my good buddy seabrook dave... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVqqj1v-ZBU simple but deadly. in fact one possible opportunity for getting involved is on this site here giving gifts towards the poor in asia
an excerpt from this week's thort for the week that i send out with some ways you can really have a great Christmas... The bottom line is you can get creative – i will share a few ideas here but it doesn’t take a brain scientist to work this out – look after the poor, needy, lonely, sick in some way this Christmas and share Christ’s love in action... [1] Present-giving – as our main [...]
so blah blah blah botswana trip... we went up with our friends dreadlock mike (dreads) and nancy the twin (twin) and two of their friend couples and i could possibly blog a lot about living with all three for the week... but the one i want to briefly write about is a couple who were mike and nancy's groomsman and bridesmaid respectively... a physio for the sharks and a high level manager type product control [...]
so we just came back from a trip to botswana with our good friends dreadlock mike (i call him that because his name is mike and he has, well, you know...) and nancy the twin (name is nancy and...) and friends and both of these incidents happened on either side of the botswanan trip, but they are related and quite funny so i thort i'd share... the beautiful val and i fly up to the [...]
so botswana was hot. very hot. hotter than the camembert cheese (or lack thereof) in the monty python 'the cheese shop' skit was runny. and so a lot of the time it was a case of existing and surviving and seeking shade. but there was some contemplation that took place, in between the gaps (surely you mean 'in the gaps?' - yes, quite, i clearly panic'd!) about life, the universe, and a whole bunch of [...]