i kid you not - on friday while we were waiting for our friends to get married, the beautiful Val and i were paging thru a hymnal and we found this gem from a guy called Richard G Jones and the song is called 'The earth is the Lords' - some classic lines here... 1. God of concrete, God of steel, God of piston and of wheel, God of pylon, God of steam, God of [...]
so, once we get past the mindless comments of people responding to the blog title and not actually reading it, what am i on about? if you haven't read my other blog about the christians choosing to become atheist (http://brettfish.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/a-theist-walks-into-an-atheist-bigbang-its-a-steel-atheist) i would suggest you begin there, cos this is a (s)equal of sorts... so in the context of finding out that one of my church peoples had turned atheist over the varsity holidays, i have [...]
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 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 [...]
so sunday nite i made a space for testimonies for people to share what God has been doing in their lives... the second person who got up was a man named P (well not really, but let's call him that for now) who i know pretty well from being around church and from having an amazing story of being homeless and God and the church bringing transformation in his life and so now he and [...]
deadantsdeadaaaaaaaants....dead dead dead dead dead ants [to the tune of the pink panther song] don't get me wrong, i'm not scared of ants. or maybe more accurately, i'm not scared of ant. how can you be scared of ant? small little random creature you can squish with a thumb. but we all saw what happens when woody allen gets them all organised into a multi-ant killing machine... so antS...? little more nervous... if the ones [...]
for they will be seen as human! i'm not sure why i was thinking about this today but i was driving back from dropping off our recycling (oh wait, it just hit me, never mind) and this thort came in to my head - i wish that i knew how to relate to handicapped people better when i was a little kid my folks used to take me to this place called the Avril Elizabeth [...]
so as part of a pretty incredible weekend up in the kwazulu of natal i managed to get some coffee time with john ellis (formerly of tree63 and 'john ellis has hung up his cross and become a giant piece of plasticine' fame) to hear his version of where he is at and whether he still loves Jesus (he does, whoops i hope that wasn't one of the 'between you and me' moments we shared, [...]
so i quoted Anne Rice the other day and this is a further explanation of where she is at which explains it a little bit more - i really like her last line... [from http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/30/anne-rice-leaves-christianity/?hpt=Sbin] Anne Rice leaves Christianity Legendary author Anne Rice has announced that she’s quitting Christianity. The “Interview with a Vampire” author, who wrote a book about her spirituality titled "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" in 2008, said Wednesday that [...]
cool, i really enjoyed my teaspoons/socks post earlier today cos it feels like the most for me thing i've written on here lately - almost like i've slipped into writing for an audience again which is not what i wanted my blog to be - aware of the audience yes (and my responsibility there) but writing what i want to write and what is more real than just giving a lesson... anyways i have a [...]