so last week my phone stopped connecting to the internet - not a train smash cos i don't inet much on my phone but just a nuisance really so i phoned the phone network (don't want to mention names but rhymes with spurgeon and starts with a V... and is Virgin) and chatted to someone who referred me to someone in the technical department cos after all it was a technical issue 'sent me' settings [...]
let’s face it – Christians are not among the most loved and respected people when it comes to those outside of the church and i have often wondered why this is and so i started thinking about some of the core basics of this religion and suddenly it makes a lot of sense. when you look at what Christians intrinsically fundamentally believe (i’m not talking how some of them act or those who claim to [...]
let’s face it – Christians are not among the most loved and respected people when it comes to those outside of the church and i have often wondered why this is and so i started thinking about some of the core basics of this religion and suddenly it makes a lot of sense. when you look at what Christians intrinsically fundamentally believe (i’m not talking how some of them act or those who claim to [...]
so the other knight i had a way too intense discussion with a friend of mine on whether things like the Henry hand ball goal, the Maradona 'hand of God' goal, nicking behind and not walking in cricket etc etc are cheating or just incidents of luck and it's up to the ref to spot them and if not then ah well... and then the England Germany game happened and apart from me backing Germany [...]
busy reading ‘Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture’ by Michael Frost and have little bits of paper and elastoplasts stuck within the pages where i really thort it was profound or spot on (if it was my book it would be folded pages but it’s not – it belongs to the theological library of stellenbosch which has absolutely no relevance so shut up already) and this was one of those pages: From the chapter [...]
it struck me this week like an intentionally mischievous bolt of lightning with a chip on its shoulder - following two or three different incidences between me/tbV and other people - that people, for the most part, would much rather appear right than be right. and it blows my mind i think mostly because i hunger to be right. i am passionate about real. not fake. not masked. not appearance. but reality. and truth. and [...]
i write a weekly thort for the week aimed at challenging Christ followers to actively live out what they believe - longer than my normal blog posts but i think this is important reading, living. Dear friends This week’s thort is specifically aimed at people living in South Africa but feel free to relate it to your specific context – i just feel after this week that God is calling up people who will speak [...]
so recently my wife - the beautiful Val (because clearly) – was on a camp where we had been asked to speak (actually first time the invitation came to us as a couple) and someone was chatting to her and said something along the lines of ‘so are you the tagalong?’ – hm, strangely that person still lives today, but ja Val was not super amped and looking back at that camp, if you had [...]
[to the tune of 'I am Spartacus' and yes it's okay that most of you don't know who that is but let google be your friend - ignorance away!] so this last week tbV and mself had been invited to speak at the national Scripture Union staff conference held at Rocklands campsite in Simonstown. as we interacted with them on the first night and during the next day this one lady stood far out from [...]
"The God i believe in, is not the God you don't believe in." [kleinfrans van eeden] "i know that you believe you understand what you think i said. but im not sure you realise that what you heard is not what i meant." [Ashton Gardner] and that sums up a huge percentage of the frustration Jesus followers have to non believers i would imagine...