john piper : Brett Fish

God called. He’d like His job back.

this has been quite an eventful week. WORLD VISION AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE World Vision made a dramatic did-they-really-not-expect-the-reaction-it-got decision involving allowing employees to be in same-sex marriages. the Evangelical response was strong with notable Christian speakers such as John Piper and Franklin Graham speaking out against the decision and many Christians apparently withdrawing support for World Vision and specifically for the children they support via World Vision. a day or two later World Vision does a [...]

By brettfish|2014-03-29T08:49:20+02:00March 29th, 2014|bible things, change the world, church, God stuff, love and chocolate, shtupidt people, Uncategorized|2 Comments

becoming unsettled

so today we fly back to americaland and i leave a changed man. but maybe not in the way you would expect... i don't feel like i have grown so much as i have regressed, but in a good way though. as in 'returned to former state' - or returning at least. in some Christian senses i guess we have been living the dream - 19 months at the Simple Way [you know, the mecca [...]

By brettfish|2014-02-08T00:48:06+02:00February 8th, 2014|challenges, change the world, God stuff, inspire-ations, Uncategorized, worship|0 Comments

Saturday Round Up: The week that was: Episode 9: Feet street painting, Kevin bacon bacon, uncontexted tweets and egg bum chicken.

from this last week on The Daily Mash [and Peace!] blog i'd have to say Thursday's John Piper tweet piece would be one to look at - Friday's 'Get your fax straight' i published on this blog as well under a different title, and if you haven't watched Wednesday's Improv TED talk then that is very much worth it, as was Tuesday's piece about the inspirational feet-paint-tree-creation-on-road-in-Hong-Kong bit... so i'd start with those and catch [...]

By brettfish|2013-05-25T07:53:40+02:00May 25th, 2013|activities, and other animals.|0 Comments

tired of Rob Bell talk? Finally, the definitive review of Love Wins.

okay, this made my day [and it had a lot of work to do] but Donald Miller of Blue Like Jazz fame finally jumps on the bandwagon and offers his brief but frank review of the book 'Love Wins' - an absolute gem and will hopefully settle any controversy once and for all. check it out here and pass it on.

By brettfish|2011-04-01T13:24:23+02:00April 1st, 2011|humour'ish, thorts of other people|5 Comments

the one about the holding of your tongue

i write a weekly email message called 'Thort for the Week' and i thort this week's was an appropriate one to add here: Dear friends “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My [...]

By brettfish|2011-03-07T12:44:06+02:00March 7th, 2011|challenging thorts|5 Comments

and have not love, i am a clanging Bell?

i am completely over the whole rob bell public bashing, public defending, long back-and-forth status comments thing and so i am hoping this will be my last post on the matter, but i think this is a valid point [and the title which i thort of as i came in here to write is pretty relevant as well] i recently read this comment at the end of another long rob bell - is he a [...]

By brettfish|2011-03-05T11:19:48+02:00March 5th, 2011|challenging thorts, God stuff, love and chocolate, world news|25 Comments

for whom the (rob) bell tolls

years ago a book called 'Velvet Elvis' came out by this new kid on the block, rob bell, and everyone was reading it and telling me it was the greatest book ever and blah blah blah... i eventually got hold of it [was going thru my phase of taking my time to rush to trending books] and read it and didn't particularly dig it all that much - it was ok and there were some [...]

By brettfish|2011-02-28T07:24:16+02:00February 28th, 2011|church, God stuff, shtupidt people, world news|8 Comments

lausanne reflections: pied the piper

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 [...]

By brettfish|2010-10-22T11:40:22+02:00October 22nd, 2010|change the world, church, God stuff, local news, world news|0 Comments