the other day i posted this status on Facebook which i tried to clarify a little better in Part I of this post: Parents of young children... while i LOVE reading so many of the funny moments and epic statements your children have and make, i do think there is huge value in savouring some of those just for yourselves as a family... i just worry that moments that should be precious memories for you [...]
i posted this as my status on the book of faces yesterday, not expecting the mini eruption of controversy as different people read different things into what i had tried to say [and i will share the comments in part II]: Parents of young children... while i LOVE reading so many of the funny moments and epic statements your children have and make, i do think there is huge value in savouring some of those [...]
as i read the first four lines of this psalm it felt like i was part of a liturgical choir speaking them out: 1 Praise awaits You, our God, in Zion; to You our vows will be fulfilled. 2 You who answer prayer, to You all people will come. the psalm is subtitled as being a song of David and so maybe that is why it conveys that fullness of message and delivery. i can imagine a congregation [...]
i logged on to the internetweb late last nite after a busy day needing to write an article before i went to sleep and was greeted by the sad news of Philip Seymour Hoffman's passing... i did what i do any time i hear a famous person has died, which is type 'Philip Seymour Hoffman dead scam' into Uncle Google to check on the legitimacy of the news and sadly could tell pretty quickly that [...]
Introduction In the summer of 2012, my wife and I began a rather interesting journey together. And by “interesting” I mean the same sort of “interesting” that is implied in the ancient apocryphal Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”. You see, my wife was diagnosed in July 2012 with (to use the medical techno-geeky terminology) Type II invasive ductal carcinoma. For those of you less involved in the whole process, this is breast [...]
so yesterday i got to meet Stephan Pastis, creator and draw'er [i guess] of the greatest cartoon strip alive, Pearls Before Swine... [more importantly, he got to 'meet' No_bob, the world's most famous stuffed dolphin] The Far Side, on it's good days [and when it was good it was great, and it was usually good] is definitely up there. so is Dilbert [Scott Adams who draws Dilbert got me started on Pearls Before Swine and [...]
Continuing with my walk through the book of Mark as i make short video clips with insights from each passage i read: Jesus frees the demon-possessed man a dead girl and a bleeding woman a prophet in his own town [aka unlocking the potential] Jesus sending out the twelve in twos to try out the stuff John the Baptiser loses his head Jesus feeds the crowd with not a whole lot of food. Jesus walks [...]
The first four chapters of Mark have some great passages in them: the authority of Jesus the baptism of Jesus Jesus calling the fishermen the message is meant to be good news the lived out authority of Love seizing the opportunity Making time to pray Jesus encounters the leper Jesus heals the paralytic who is lowered thru the roof Jesus hangs out with the 'wrong people' the letter of the law or the spirit of [...]
i hate raiSINs. no really. no, not like you do, i mean really hate them. yes, i hear that you feel like you hate them, but in comparison to me you pretty much like them. in fact they may be your favourite poison food. you don't believe me? well, let's do a little test, because there are three kinds of people who say they hate raiSINs [and only one kind is a true 'believer'] [1] [...]
i remember a time many years ago when eating disorders came into the light in a big way and things like Anorexia and Bulimia were spoken about quite a lot, they became popular youth group topics and were highlighted in the media with high profile models and Hollywood celebrities bringing light on to it but almost in one way glorifying it - in a sick way it became almost like an in thing to do [...]