life : Brett Fish

for the sake of the chores part ii

ah bless (as they would say in the englandited kingdom) it seems the thing about not being able to read tone from an email (so don't ever have an argument via email - go live, really - meaning received quickly becomes not meaning sent) applies to blogs too yesterday's bermuda time triangle in marriage thort which i had intended as a light-hearted whimsical tongue-in-cheek adrian mole/adrian plass type "where's-the-time" montage was interpreted as a serious [...]

By brettfish|2010-09-13T03:35:14+02:00September 13th, 2010|humour'ish, life, marriage|1 Comment

for the sake of the chores

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 [...]

By brettfish|2010-09-12T09:42:04+02:00September 12th, 2010|life, love and chocolate, marriage, the beautiful Val (tbV)|2 Comments

sanity prevails? koran-burning cancelled

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 [...]

By brettfish|2010-09-09T21:16:59+02:00September 9th, 2010|change the world, life, shtupidt people|1 Comment

it's loving God, and loving people…

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? [...]

By brettfish|2010-09-07T06:14:52+02:00September 7th, 2010|change the world, God stuff, life, worship|1 Comment

kicking my talented hungover ass

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 [...]

By brettfish|2010-09-03T09:18:21+02:00September 3rd, 2010|God stuff, life|2 Comments

an 'offer' you really can't refuse.

i really enjoyed enGAGE (our sun evening congregation) tonite i was away for two days this week so didn't do my traditional thursday morning sermon prep and so yesterday (sat) i put some stuff together and it felt decent, but when i was looking over it today it suddenly clicked into place and i really felt super amped about it and then when i was preaching tonite i just had a sense of God telling [...]

By brettfish|2010-08-22T21:15:33+02:00August 22nd, 2010|change the world, church, God stuff, life|1 Comment

brainless christianity

‎one of my weekly thort for the week reader friends wrote me an email containing this line: 'It doesn’t matter how much doctrine I know, if I don’t reflect the God I serve in my daily life, it’s pointless.' which in essence is a paraphrase of James 2 - faith without works is dead - and James 1.22 don't just read it, do it. and it was part of an email from a guy who [...]

By brettfish|2010-08-14T05:32:52+02:00August 14th, 2010|change the world, God stuff, life, shtupidt people|2 Comments

blessed are the slow to act

so my beautiful wife Val has posted this post on poverty and our gut reaction vs a more thort out one and it's a bit of a catch 22 of which one is right or not but the key thing it teaches is to think which is something we need more of in all aspects of life, and is often one of the most frustrating things about many christians who 'have the right answer' without [...]

By brettfish|2010-08-05T19:42:54+02:00August 5th, 2010|change the world, life, shtupidt people, the beautiful Val (tbV)|0 Comments

the real deal [may contain traces of john ellis and anne rice]

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 [...]

By brettfish|2010-07-29T21:15:14+02:00July 29th, 2010|and other animals., God stuff, life|12 Comments

getting back in the fire

used this analogy at youth group i spoke at on Friday - amazing bunch of young people in the lesser known place of Factreton - and then completely convicted during worship singing time in church yesterday morning about how not there i am - making amends this week... log in the middle of a fire - burns solidly, adds to warmth and function of fire log on edge of fire - still burning but maybe [...]

By brettfish|2010-07-26T06:01:46+02:00July 26th, 2010|God stuff, life|0 Comments