so one of my absolute highlights of the new years festival was my wife... no, but above and beyond the usual reasons for loving and liking her – two moments stand out: the first is the moment of new years when we were backstage and sitting next to slash behind a giant speaker box semi trying to avoid the whole run-around-and-hug-perfect-strangers (perfect sweaty rained upon strangers who have been partying it up since 7 hours [...]
sometimes i like to picture Jesus in a modern day setting and wonder how His life and ministry would have looked if it was 2011 when God decided to come to earth in human form to settle the original score instead of 2000ish years ago would He have watched movies or played computer games? Would He have had His own Facebook page or blog? Would Jesus own a cellphone (my thorts are He probably wouldn’t [...]
my beautiful wife val just wrote this blog and it's been stuff that is on my mind and heart a lot these last few years and she pretty much nails it: check out her blog titled "on immoral wealth"
it is fascinating to see what gets christians all passionate and excited (in a pitchfork and flaming torches mob kind of way) - i remember the whole furore around the Christmas to X-mas campaign with stickers and articles and sermons declaring 'put the Christ back into X-mas' [it is only mildly funny that those people would campaign so strongly about that and yet for the most part be completely sucked into the capitalistic greed-focus 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]