so i really want to punt this site again - think my beautiful wife valerie put me on to it - it's called common prayer and it basically has like a prayer devotion for the day so usually a bit of an extract of some significant story (today was on Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on the bus in the states which ignited the whole civil rights movement) and then a [...]
i am really enjoying the site common prayer which gives a prayers (or prayers) and sometimes a brief uplifting story - i struggle to spend much time in prayer myself day to day in terms of just putting time aside to really dive into God, but i have found this site helpful just to help direct my prayer times or get me started or focus more... i really enjoyed today's story... Marcella of Rome (325 – 410) [...]
if you haven't yet, first read the previous blog link to the shane claiborne article on prayer - and then check out this site which appears to have a prayer or prayer list per day - i think this is going to be something that will help direct my prayers as i think i am a particularly bad pray'er and something like this to stimulate and direct and get me started might be just what [...]
'Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove explain why community worship and prayer—not just "action"—are so vital.' take a read at some of the ideas that shane claiborne has on the importance and place of prayer in your community living...
i had this epiphony in the shower the other day - if the only Bible'ing and praying you do is at your church gathering on a sunday once a week, then you don't have a relationship with God, you have a relationship with church. and i think that's how a lot of people live - their spiritual life is their relationship with the meeting on a sunday it becomes a little bit memento meets inception [...]
so ja, last nite we had a theatresports show at kalk bay which was all cool and delightful and a bunch of fun (except maybe the two quite morbid but particularly brilliant dramatic one minute challenge games we played - whole nother level) and then i started driving back home to the beautiful val as i do... when i came to a roadworks part of the road but with no one manning (or womenning) it [...]
i imagine most people in south africa know someone who is from or in zim and so the zim situation probly connects deeply with a lot of us and usually carries a despondent or powerless 'what can i do?' attachment... well i got this email in my inbox this week and this is a way for the church to get involved and just exciting to know what is happening in the heart of zimbabwe as [...]
"When those who hold positions of leadership in the church of Jesus Christ stand opposed to the very heart of God and refuse to submit their lives to His Word, it is the death of life in that church." [Erwin McManus, an unSTOPPABLE force] that is just so true. i have seen it and i have been on the receiving end of it. and it always comes down to "me me me me ME me" [...]
"i believe Lord, help me overcome my unbelief." [Mark 9.24] a verse i am really drawn to in the Bible that falls nicely alongside my life themesong of 'there must be more than this' - the knowledge that God can do it, but will He choose to...? and the other day, altho it's not very CC (Christianly Correct) as i lay with my wife crying out in immense pain with the hugest of mammoth headaches [...]