my wife, whom i love, both because i can and because she is well worth it has written another blog in her series on how to love your man better and if you click this piece of writing here it will mystically transport you there so you might be reading of it...
hm. you know, having had a bit of a chance to think about it [once i crawled out from under the pile of stones] i think there is some point to the judgements that have been made. i say 'judgements' because they have come across like that which i find very sad. maybe it's in line with the fact that it's virtually impossible to read tone into emails and so someone might be saying 'hey, [...]
just watching the rob bell furore that has swept up has once again brought something to the fore which i think needs comment and some thort by people who claim to be Jesus-followers... one of the accusations that has been made against rob bell is that he is a universalist which as i understand it is someone who believes that everyone is going to end up in heaven, and by definition no one ends up [...]
been wandering around the simple way page and reading thru a couple of shane's articles and really being inspired and challenged and challenged to inspire... here is an extract from 'Downward Mobility in an Upscale World', an article by Shane Claiborne "Over the years I have come to see how charity fits into — and legitimizes — our system of wealth and poverty. Charity assures that the rich will feel good while the poor will [...]
anyone who knows me even slightly well will know that one of my top three life-changing books is "The Irresistible Revolution" by shane claiborne who is one of my real life heroes - i met him briefly a couple of years ago when he was in J Bay speaking at an international Christian surf conference and got to chat to him for a bit and interview him for two magazine articles i was writing. i [...]
so recently i ran a series of repeat blog posts about how to love your woman better and someone made a request for how to do the loving of your man better and so the beautiful val has taken the challenge and here is the first one - please check it out and respond... http://valanderson.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/how-to-love-your-man-better-just-love-him
wow, someone sent me the link to this article written by helen zille about two matrics - Asavela Rawe ('a 17-year old boy, who lives in a backyard shack with his single mother and three siblings, and achieved 7 distinctions in matric, including 97%for Higher Grade Mathematics and the top award in the Western Cape for Life Sciences') and his friend Monde Simbosini ('three distinctions and 98% for Higher Grade Mathematics') - from Masibambane high [...]
'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...
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 [...]