So one of my new favourite virtual [for now] friends, Dante, whose incredible Micropoetry can be found over at Original Dante, challenged me to a duel [well kinda, cos he already pulled his trigger in his own fight] which i had already kinda done in someone's comment section, but there is no verifiable proof, so i decided to take him up on it... OD is the reason i got interested in, and brave enough to [...]
Sarah Bessey is one of my favourite people on the Twitterer. She is a Canadian who loves Jesus and pretty much any time i have read one of her blog pieces i resonate deeply with it and really feel that she writes both truthfully but also lovingly [often a tough mix to get just right] and so she is one of the few go-to blog people i have. Others being Nate Pyle in a similar way [truth [...]
So i was nominated for this Spread Love Challenge by TheFabLetters which is this super interesting blog i stumbled on a short while ago where two women write letters to each other which become the premise of the blog posts. Some really good stuff there. The Rules: Write ten four word sentences about what love means to you. Share your favorite quote on love. Nominate ten other bloggers for the same. Now normally i wouldn't be [...]
So i now have a few great things written about this topic and was struggling to find the best place to put them so i thought i would create this space over here: Let's Talk about Sex - my friend Lily Dunn exposes '4 Lies the Church Taught her about Sex' Sex Before Marriage - one of those topics that keeps coming up that there are a variety of opinions on - with input from [...]
i remember the day my pastor boss from the Vineyard church in Stellenbosch asked me something along the lines of: IF YOU COULD DO ANYTHING IN THE WORLD, WHAT WOULD IT BE? and my answer really seemed to impress something upon him, as he brought it up on many occasions after that, but it was something like: THIS. THIS IS WHAT I WOULD DO. we like the idea of being 'called into something' [us christians [...]
i was sitting innocently in our church, Re:Generation, evening service last nite, when suddenly a shot rang out... it wasn't fired from a gun. but it still felt like it hit me between the eyes. and there was nothing i could do about it. a woman called Andrea, from an organisation called 'Disarm the Dark' was invited to share a little about the work she is doing in anti-trafficking. one line she said really just [...]
aka Jamie the very worst missionary's position on sex [part I] My youngest son is about to turn 13, so for the next 9 months, until my oldest turns 20 (holy ape balls!), I will be Mom to three teenage boys. That means our dinner table feels like a locker room... if locker rooms were full of nerds. The conversation tumbles easily from Xbox to music to girls to MineCraft to push ups to girls to [...]