we watched a panel do some talking around the theme of globalisation yesterday and i jotted down some interesting lines and thorts on my phone while it was happening: with globalisation there are three stages we need to go through: - we need to discern - we need to assess - we need to engage is it right or wrong, it is good or bad, is it useful or useless - too often as the [...]
listened to an ephesians 3 devotional by john piper who i have heard a lot about but have never heard or read any of his stuff before - really want to go back and watch that clip without sound because he looks a bit like a muppet on steroids - very energetic in movement anyways i wasn't overly inspired by most of what he said until right at the end when he basically said there [...]
the beautiful val told me of a testimony that was shared the other night at the lausanne congress where the girl sharing it quickly left the stage after speaking and disappeared behind the curtain but the crowd of 4000 plus people stood and applauded and cheered and continued for ten minutes and so they brought her back on to stage while people continued to respond to her powerful testimony - i was hoping to be [...]
so one of the things that came out of yesterday's discussions when we were looking at the christian faith existing in a pluralistic multi-faith society was the need to understand what we mean by church... one of the problems that the church faces today is that what we see as church is a combination of what church is meant to be about (according to God and the Bible) plus tradition and style and denomination and [...]
this week the third lausanne congress for world evangelication is happening in cape town - 4200 delegates from around the world representing church leaders, academics, theologians, marketplace people as well as men, women as well as old, young - convening for a week to discuss relevant issues facing the church - things like globalisation, pluralism, multi-faith society, relevance, integrity, response to poverty, trafficking etc etc - it is an incredible time and i am so [...]
been very cool watching the world unite around this story and these people... go team.
been very cool watching the world unite around this story and these people... go team.
the rescure operation of the chilean miners continues to go well as the world watches in anticipation and celebration...
this is such an inspiring story - i hope you are taking note... latest news here laterer news
i am sitting at the computer with three news articles in front of me: one is the exciting story of the Chilean miners who have been trapped underground since August 5 who are about to be rescued and are 'fighting' over who can go last so that their friends can get to freedom first - inspirational story of courage and survival and just so enthralling to see the whole world focused on the kind of [...]