this is where it all begins as i start my walk through the Gospel of Mark sharing insights as i go along and this one is about the authority that Jesus had compared to the authority which some of the other 'leaders' of the day were demonstrating or clamoring for... to continue on to the baptism of Jesus, click here
this is a really short one, but a very important message for Jesus followers to hear - the significance of the fact that the message Jesus brought to the world was something that He referred to as "good news" and the question each one of us should be asking about the message we are speaking and living out... to move on to the authority of lived out Love, click here
so this morning i decided i need to get back into some more regular reading of the Bible again and decided to work through the gospel of Mark - one chapter in and i already have a bunch of notes of things that stood out for me.so i decided that, similar to the Psalms i have been working through every now and then, this could be something that i share with anyone who might be [...]
this is a short psalm with one of the most powerful endings... in the middle of what is clearly a lonely, worrying, desolate time, still the psalmist realises and remembers where his hope lies and that is with God and so he pleads his case, ending with: 'Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.' [vs.5] [...]
the next topic that i will be dealing with [and starting with my own story] is that of PORNOGRAPHY and MASTURBATION which are often closely linked together. the idea of Taboo Topics is to take a topic that is very real [and often raw and painful, perhaps embarrassing or just difficult to speak about] but which no one, for various reasons, is speaking a lot about and to invite people who have had experience in [...]
so there are now 13 videos in the 'Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect' series of humorousfilled warning videos highlighting average every day things that we might not have considered the potential lurking dangers thereof... the first one of these has received the most hits and is only 999333 hits away from going viral [if 'going viral' means a million hits] - once i achieve that then rebecca black and i can be facebook friends [...]
once upon a time i developed a bad pseudo afrikaans accent and an idea for a show that would warn people about the inherent dangers lurking behind innocent-seeming things [like paper, ice-cream and screaming "Lego" when someone who is dangling you over a cliff asks what you will give them if they pull you up to safety] and a few people started really enjoying these videos and some people even started sharing them with their [...]
so my irresistibly fish blog has been a little bit quiet since we left south africa because i have not had a lot of inet time and when i have i have been blogging my experiences on my new thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com blog so if you are wanting to follow our adventures at the simple way community i suggest you subscribe to that blog where most of my writing will likely happen while we're over here... if [...]
i have started a separate blog for posting 'the simple way' adventure related stuff so that people who are wanting to follow our journeys and have an idea of what's going on can simply sign up there and read whatever i get to write about things that are part of our philly trip - if that's you, you may want to bookmark this link where i have written a basic idea of what it's all [...]
don't cast pearls before swine... that's how it goes, right? i mean Jesus said it and everything (matthew 7.6) but here is another take on that perhaps? use it, don't use it... i've been listening to a song by the foo fighters (what is foo? do you think they maybe originally started out as 'the flu fighters' and then someone typo'd their name and the rest is history... and if you started a band and [...]