Jesus : Brett Fish

Red Bull Jesus

challenging thorts, God stuff, things to wrestle with

Red Bull Jesus

If the Jesus you offer... speak about... claim to follow... ...doesn't affect your money... ...doesn't engage your time... ...doesn't influence your decisions... ...doesn't infiltrate every one of your relationships... ...doesn't require [demand] your obedience... ...then i'm sure we're really not talking about the same person at all. Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit,if any tenderness [...]

By brettfish|2017-01-16T07:54:50+02:00January 16th, 2017|challenging thorts, God stuff, things to wrestle with|0 Comments

Happy Jesus Day!

inspire-ations, things to wrestle with

Happy Jesus Day!

Happy Jesus day everybody. i know [and understand] why a lot of you are not big fans of Christianity, but i encourage you to let go of all the negativity you feel towards it and the concept of God you might have [if it's a doesn't exist or vengeful wrathful angry God or uninterested puppetmaster or only loves white people or something else] and spend a little bit of time simply looking at Jesus... [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-25T06:46:42+02:00December 25th, 2016|inspire-ations, things to wrestle with|0 Comments

The Greatest Story Ever Told

There is something about that story. Whether sitting watching a Veggie Tales ‘Drummer Boy’ Christmas with two of our nieces, or heading out at 11pm last night for a ‘midnight’ service at St John’s Parish in Wynberg, the heart of the story itself is just so loud and completely powerful that it gets me every time. i know that many of my friends don’t believe. […]

By brettfish|2015-12-25T07:17:38+02:00December 25th, 2015|bible things, change the world, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations|0 Comments

Sell all of our possessions?

Continuing the passage i am sharing from the Ron Sider book, ‘Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger’, i’ll back up one paragraph just to remind us where we were: = = = = = If there are poor people who need assistance, Jesus’ carefree disciple will help – even if that means selling possessions. People are vastly more important than property. “Laying up treasure in heaven” means exactly the same thing. “In Jewish literature, [...]

By brettfish|2015-11-20T07:18:09+02:00November 20th, 2015|bible things, challenging thorts, change the world, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|3 Comments

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Starving Affluence

i have just started reading this book by Ron Sider who we got to hang out with a little bit during our time at the Simple Way in Philly a couple of years ago. Recently he visited South Africa and i got to hear him speak and thought it was high time i got hold of this book which has influenced so many people. This part i want to share is just from the Foreword [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-30T08:44:33+02:00September 30th, 2015|challenging thorts, change the world|4 Comments

Love, Patience and Stupid People…

As a follower of Jesus, this really is my mantra. Love one another. This is how you will be known to be My [Jesus] disciples, if you have love one for another. When i spend a decent amount of time online challenging people about their beliefs and actions, this often comes to mind. After all the church has a pretty bad history of typically being known more for what we are against than what we [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-24T10:02:51+02:00September 24th, 2015|challenging thorts, things to wrestle with|0 Comments

What prophets? A man. If he gains the whole world, he loses his soul.

i have a gift. i call it the gift of small audience. There was a time in Cape Town a few years ago when i was one of the 5 or 6 speakers youth groups and Christian school groups would call on for talks and camps and it felt really good - like i had huge opportunity to make a difference - to impact hundreds of young people across Cape Town and beyond as the [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-28T13:20:12+02:00August 28th, 2015|inspire-ations|0 Comments

A Zealot, an Essene, a Herodian and a Pharisee walked into a bar…

i am busy reading this book, that my friend Steve Graybill sent to me while we were in Americaland [after i asked for one of the books he had recently read that was worth reading] and it has been such an interesting read. Steve was the one who recommended 'The Lemon Tree' and 'Blood Brothers' which i gave a glimpse of over here, as i was trying to understand the Palestinian/Israeli crisis a little bit [...]

By brettfish|2015-08-06T09:39:23+02:00August 6th, 2015|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, what i am reading|1 Comment

After the rain…

You go away on a houseboat for a week, come back home, turn on your computer and it's like a paint factory sneezed all over Facebook. Or something like that. Actually the graphic on my buddy Steve Heineman's page expressed it best: And i think enough has been said from either side of the rainbow for me to need to add anything specifically about that, although i definitely have some deep sadness for some of [...]

By brettfish|2015-06-29T16:48:14+02:00June 29th, 2015|challenging thorts, God stuff, inspire-ations, love and chocolate, things to wrestle with|0 Comments

Why i believe local church is not all of the answer

In Acts 7 in the bible, we read about the stoning of Stephen. Does anyone know what role Stephen had in the early church? Let me give you a clue: In Acts 6.5 we see him described as "a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit". So what did he do? Are we thinking pastor? Elder? Worship leader? Let me give you another clue: In Acts 6.8 we read that Stephen was "a man [...]