so i have been married for about 14 months yesterday and i still completely highly recommend it if it is to the right person - it is not always easy - it is sometimes really hard - but it is incredible and the pros definitely outbeat-up-and-leave-bleeding-behind-the-shed the cons... and i love the beautiful Val - really feel privileged and lucky and amazed that i have someone like her in my life... yay. the one thing [...]
so taken directly from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11255366 US pastor Terry Jones cancels Koran burning The pastor of a small US church who wanted to burn copies of the Koran has cancelled his protest. Terry Jones said he was calling off the Florida event after the group behind a planned mosque close to Ground Zero in New York agreed to relocate it. Mr Jones had said the burning would be a stand against terrorism, but his plan was [...]
so it seems my last post caused some confusion amongst some people and no confusion amongst some other people [group hug] - my beautiful wife suggests it may have been my title saying one thing and the article saying another thing which i can see a little bit - on the one hand the title was meant to be a bit of an attention-grabber but on the other hand the title is a lot of [...]
so i was going to write a blog about confrontation and how there is a serious lack of it in the church i know this because i have been doing it for years and it has often felt like a very lonely, deserted spot to set out your picnic basket in a church congregation situation with the majority of people feeling the same thing, but everyone too afraid to speak up, or simply too lazy, [...]
how do we get it so wrong? pride. definitely. or maybe defiantly. definitively? what do they think of me? what don't they think of me? what should they think of me? what do i want them to think of me? i can't believe they... i can't believe she didn't... why doesn't anyone... don't they know that i... don't they see that i... it is loving God it is loving people selfishness. defiantly so. or deftly? [...]
so it seems like people continue to have an interest in the john ellis... um i'm not sure it's a saga, i think you need three movies for that, but new direction-taking-focus-ment? anyways i said to john, "hey john, people have questions" and john said to me "ask me those questions" so i said "Okay, but i just don't have them yet" and so this is where you come in... if you have a question [...]
last nite's enGAGE church gathering was pretty rad - i could 'do church' like that every week i think we knew we were going to have a smaller group (which for a small group can be daunting) cos of the student holidays and so i chatted to ronel who was worshippy leadering and she and arnie (no relation) chose to do some accoustic worship vibes which was great then for sun nite when i'd been [...]
so i was chatting to some of my guys-who-meet-at-lunchtime-on-a-thursday guys yesterday and as i was speaking i felt the conviction of what i was saying (pretty much more to myself than to anyone else) the conversation was sparked by me watching the dvd Kick-Ass the day before while tbV was at varsity - a movie which i'd initially heard some bad things about (like little girl saying the 'c' word which is one of the [...]
so part of an article explaining south african english cricketer kevin pietersen's recent twit-ter explosion after being dropped from the national side goes like this: 'Kevin Pietersen has apologised for the outburst which followed his omission from England's limited-overs squads for the series against Pakistan. The 30-year-old batsman announced he had been dropped via Twitter, with his angry tweet including an expletive. "It came out in the way that I didn't want it to come [...]
so last nite i was driving a buddy home from my theatresports show and he said something along the lines of "i'm going to sleep like a baby tonite" and i thort why? why would you want that? i haven't had a baby - besides the physiological impossibilities of that unless you happen to be an austrian governor of a U.S. state - and neither has my wife - and STOP ASKING US (future blog, [...]