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, [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
so last week at enGAGE (sun eve congregation gathering at stellenbosch vineyard church) we had over 40 people there including a bunch of first-timers and roymond preached up an elijah storm in his first ever preach on the firetruck in the desert and your buckets capacity... at the start of the service i challenged the congregation to be more committed in terms of choosing to hang with us more regularly (attendance can be a bit [...]
so i managed to track down the john ellis article that started all the 'fun' and am very much looking forward to having caffeine with the man when i hit durban this week to hear more of where his heart is (and cos, hey, caffeine!!) but i'm not too sure he is going to be poster boy for pagans anonymous just yet - also take some time to read some of the comments by christians [...]
somebody has GOT to be joking... http://entertainment.iafrica.com/news/2557693.htm
i just realised i blogged the same quote twice awkward i'll be okay, though, maybe three extra people will read it in fact you would have been far more inspirationalised had you read that one again in fact why are you still reading this one, can't you see it's about nothing in particular it is not going to get better anytime soon, i'm almost sure, so stop reading and go and do something else seriously, [...]
so i recently wrote a 5 part ‘reasons to hate Christianity’ blog series which was (for those who read it) intended to be a tongue-in-cheek statement on some of the basic things Christianity is actually meant to be about – things like love and forgiveness and looking after people in need which are all things that actually no-one in their right mind would hate... but yet people hate christianity and have issues with the church... [...]