Shalom : Brett Fish

How do we harness the Christmas/New Year’s Shalom?

inspire-ations, South Africa, things to wrestle with

How do we harness the Christmas/New Year’s Shalom?

Shalom means completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord. Shalom comes from the root verb shalom meaning to be complete, perfect and full. [Strong's Concordance] i was thinking about this on our recent camping trip in the Cederberg. How is it that everyone is peaceful and loving and kind on Christmas Day... and then again on New Year's Eve? And then they're not...? [...]

By brettfish|2017-01-05T13:52:10+02:00January 5th, 2017|inspire-ations, South Africa, things to wrestle with|0 Comments

On Justice and Shalom: Sarah Bessey speaks [part II]

A week ago i shared a piece from Sarah Bessey's new book 'Out of Sorts' on Justice and Shalom and so i want to share the second part of that with you. This is from Chapter 11 which is titled ‘Beautiful Facade’ and subtitled ‘On Justice and Shalom’: = = = = = = = = = = When I start getting mad at the facade, I peek behind it and guess who I find? The [...]

By brettfish|2016-02-26T10:00:09+02:00February 26th, 2016|things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

On Justice and Shalom: Sarah Bessey speaks [part i]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Or maybe just the most hectic of times. Having just moved across to a newer fresher website and blog for Irresistibly Fish, i wrote two posts which really got people responding A LOT in the last 48 hours. The first being the provocatively titled, 'Sodomy: A South African Love Story' and the second the way more controversial [somehow] 'The Passion of the Chris' [which despite the [...]