christian : Brett Fish

on the place of using metaphor to understand/describe God [part i]

i have been busy reading brian mclaren's 'Generous Orthodoxy' and as a previous not-a-big-fan-of-brian-mclaren am absolutely loving it and highly recommend it - breaks open a lot of different boxes and helps clarify a bunch of christian labels in a very helpful way... here is an extract from the latest chapter which i really enjoyed titled, "Why I am Mystical/Poetic." and the context is using metaphors to understand God: 'So we reach for another metaphor [...]

By brettfish|2011-09-25T22:49:43+02:00September 25th, 2011|Uncategorized|0 Comments

i believe! help me overcome my unbelief

my good friend and distant tag team buddy sean du toit sent me a link to this article titled 'As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God.' Very cool article and worth reading the whole thing but here is an excerpt: It inspired me, renewing my flagging faith in development charities. But travelling in Malawi refreshed another belief, too: one I've been trying to banish all my life, but an observation I've been unable [...]

By brettfish|2011-04-14T06:39:43+02:00April 14th, 2011|change the world, God stuff, inspire-ations, thorts of other people|1 Comment

i kissed dating, part marriagewards

this will be a quick one but it is an important principle... those of you who are still in high school who are reading this will - more than likely - not be thinking about marriage at this stage of your lives and why should you? well here is one reason... the PURPOSE OF DATING, as i see it, is for the most part to determine whether the person you are dating is a SUITABLE [...]

By brettfish|2018-12-14T13:38:53+02:00March 17th, 2011|love and chocolate, relationships|5 Comments

i kissed dating, part Vision/Values essential, passion helpful

continuing with a look at the whole dating thing and how JESUS-FOLLOWERS NEED TO BE UPPING THEIR GAME, transforming their lives thru A RENEWING OF THEIR MINDS and being part of creating a BETTER, HEALTHIER SYSTEM OF DATING... this one is closely linked to the previous one which was about dating someone who has JESUS AS THEIR NUMBER ONE, which is ESSENTIAL, and it deals with a sense of compatability looking specifically at VISION AND [...]

By brettfish|2018-12-14T13:38:11+02:00March 15th, 2011|love and chocolate, relationships|6 Comments

i kissed dating, part number one thing

i believe it is imperative that THE NUMBER 1 THING IN YOUR LIFE IS THE NUMBER 1 THING IN HER LIFE [i'm talking guy to girl here, but all of this flows both ways] when it comes to passion and interests and hobbies and so on there is room to have differing, even at times opposing interests, but NOT WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR PRIMARY FOCUS and joy and directional force. in the context of [...]

By brettfish|2018-12-14T13:31:42+02:00March 14th, 2011|change the world, love and chocolate, relationships|10 Comments

i kissed dating, part get to know the person first

i really believe this is ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL KEYS to a REVOLUTIONISED SYSTEM OF DATING... there is a trend that happens specifically in christian contexts (altho i am sure there are equivalent secular contexts that promote the same thing - like actors making a movie together for example) which contributes to a lot of debris in relationships WHICH COULD EASILY BE AVOIDED... the mathematical equation reads something like 'bunch of christian guys' + 'bunch [...]

By brettfish|2018-12-14T13:37:22+02:00March 14th, 2011|change the world, love and chocolate, relationships|13 Comments

who does barack obama answer to?

i came across this article about barack obama's personal faith and the unsurprising statement that it is the call to look after 'the least of these' [matthew 25, sheep and goats parable] that keeps him focused... very cool... excerpt from article below - link to full article and clip here 'President Barack Obama gave an unusually personal speech about his religious faith on Thursday, saying that "it is the biblical injunction to serve the least [...]

By brettfish|2011-02-04T09:11:04+02:00February 4th, 2011|God stuff, inspire-ations, world news|0 Comments

bad christian movies too

a great article on relevant magazine taking up the same theme of christians and bad art/movies...

By brettfish|2010-10-29T07:04:29+02:00October 29th, 2010|God stuff, life|0 Comments

can a Christ follower achieve perfection/sinlessness?

[laughed the boy] a friend of mine from the Malaysian Younger Leaders Gathering i attended in 2006 asked me the question and so i did my best to answer it, or to at least look at some of the aspects of the question - thort it was worth posting my thorts here... hey Debbie greetings in the amazing name of Jesus! thankx for the email and the encouragement and hopefully this gets to you in [...]

By brettfish|2010-10-20T04:03:54+02:00October 20th, 2010|God stuff|6 Comments

the double tease

so i recently was on an orange river trip with a bunch of youth okes linked to a southern suburbs church youth group... two of the guys on the trip wore t-shirts (which i addressed with them both - one directly and one a little more indirectly cos i couldn't remember who had been wearing it) which distressed me a lot [1] cartoon picture made up of two blocks - in the first block a [...]

By brettfish|2010-10-08T04:36:35+02:00October 8th, 2010|change the world, love and chocolate, relationships, shtupidt people, the beautiful Val (tbV)|4 Comments