listened to an ephesians 3 devotional by john piper who i have heard a lot about but have never heard or read any of his stuff before - really want to go back and watch that clip without sound because he looks a bit like a muppet on steroids - very energetic in movement anyways i wasn't overly inspired by most of what he said until right at the end when he basically said there [...]
so there is a new campaign in town and apart from some silliness like the whole main thrust of it being that if you don't like coffee you are okay, i thort (hi lisa) that it was very well written and even contained moments of humourous - my friend simon from the brothers streep wrote it and is a very funny guy who occasionally constructs pirate ships out of lego (possibly other substances too, but [...]
the beautiful val told me of a testimony that was shared the other night at the lausanne congress where the girl sharing it quickly left the stage after speaking and disappeared behind the curtain but the crowd of 4000 plus people stood and applauded and cheered and continued for ten minutes and so they brought her back on to stage while people continued to respond to her powerful testimony - i was hoping to be [...]
so one of the things that came out of yesterday's discussions when we were looking at the christian faith existing in a pluralistic multi-faith society was the need to understand what we mean by church... one of the problems that the church faces today is that what we see as church is a combination of what church is meant to be about (according to God and the Bible) plus tradition and style and denomination and [...]
we watched a multiplex (workshop session) yesterday on Christians and the media and then we had a bunch of small group discussion on the topic - as i was mc'ing the meeting and made some statements about bad christian movies there were too many heads nodding in agreement for me to think this is just my particular cynicised view the bottom line for me is that the church has some great stories - from the [...]
[laughed the boy] a friend of mine from the Malaysian Younger Leaders Gathering i attended in 2006 asked me the question and so i did my best to answer it, or to at least look at some of the aspects of the question - thort it was worth posting my thorts here... hey Debbie greetings in the amazing name of Jesus! thankx for the email and the encouragement and hopefully this gets to you in [...]
this week the third lausanne congress for world evangelication is happening in cape town - 4200 delegates from around the world representing church leaders, academics, theologians, marketplace people as well as men, women as well as old, young - convening for a week to discuss relevant issues facing the church - things like globalisation, pluralism, multi-faith society, relevance, integrity, response to poverty, trafficking etc etc - it is an incredible time and i am so [...]
hey readers of this someone forwarded me an email not telling me the nigerian governtment or bill gates are about to send me a lot of money so i thort i'd pay attention - there is this site that puts together presents for needy kids in the form of santa shoeboxes - they have a target of 31552 kids this year and are currently over the 29000 mark and so really just need a few [...]
been very cool watching the world unite around this story and these people... go team.
been very cool watching the world unite around this story and these people... go team.