for years i have sent out a weekly challenging Christ-following email message called 'Thort for the Week' which you can sign up for by emailing me at brettfish@hotmail.com and asking to be added to TFTW... but this week's one i really felt i should share here as well... In Isaiah 52 the prophet says, 'How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, [...]
i really like this picture of me and the reason i chose it for this particular challenge is the idea of casting a wider shadow. the past 18 months i spent as part of a non-profit organisation called the Simple Way which in some cases meant a broadening of shadow as i was given the potential to influence [to some extent] an organisation that is world-known and has an extended sphere of influence and audience... [...]
so probably close to 15 years ago i wrote a challenging email to a couple of friends of mine about some aspect of following Jesus... a week later i did the same... at some point i told someone about it and they asked to be added and so i added them... pretty soon i started spam-inviting people from the typical cheesy group Christian emails that used to hit my inbox and some of them decided [...]
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 [...]
so the writing is going pretty well - not sure i'll be finishing this week but have definitely taken some huge strides forward [thankx big time to Garth Croftbro who reviewed the first part of it really hectically and gave me a lot of great stuff to work with] so thankx to everyone praying towards that... i did make time to record my second audio thort and you can find it here - http://brettfish.tumblr.com/ - [...]
okay so i'm not sure if it's a podcast if i can't stick it into itunes yet - need to figure out where to find the rss feed (i was listening sean) but i have posted it up on my tumblr page and the link is below if you want to give it a listen and constructive feedback will be appreciated - this one very much mirrored my written thort for the week with some [...]
i send out a weekly email message called thort for the week aimed at challenging and encouraging Christ-followers to really live out what we say we believe - i thort i'd share this week's with my blog [if you would like to receive the weekly messages simply email brettfish@hotmail.com with the email address you would like it sent to and a 'please add me' subject line] - trust you enjoy... I was sent this psalm [...]
one of my weekly thort for the week reader friends wrote me an email containing this line: 'It doesn’t matter how much doctrine I know, if I don’t reflect the God I serve in my daily life, it’s pointless.' which in essence is a paraphrase of James 2 - faith without works is dead - and James 1.22 don't just read it, do it. and it was part of an email from a guy who [...]