October 2010
7 posts
Christ Follower
Facebook gives quite a bit of information for the casual passers-by; location, family, relationship, political opinion, sex, age, etc. Whe n you look at them you can sometimes be very surprised by the answers; not knowing they had a brother, not realising they share your birthday and so on. What catches me off guard is normally the religious views, specially when they say Christian, to which I...
Personal Mission Statement
Churches, businesses, schools, universities and many other establishments have mission statements which tell onlookers what their purpose and what they strive for. I figure as people do we have unspoken, unwritten mission statements? If this was to be written down what would it look like? May be this.
My aim is;
To love God with all my heart, mind, soul and strength.
To seek to bring God glory...
Push Forward
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
Most civilisations, throughout history have thought that they were the pinnacle of humanity. Romans, Babylonians, Britons, Greeks, any that you can think of, even us, all had/have very high opinions of themselves.
We have “evolved” as a race, we have computers and various other...
“While God will never contradict His word, He often contradicts our understanding...”
– Bill Johnson (via twitter)
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The Greatest Love Story The World Has Ever Known
Romeo and Juliet… What is it about the story that has made it last this long, be this popular and well known and studied? Is it because William Shakespeare is famous and wrote so many great works? or is he famous because of Romeo and Juliet?
I saw a poster for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet and one of the captions on the poster is “The greatest love story the world has ever...
The Sin Disease
Last week we got to the subject of the cross and the difference between Sin and sins.
When God made the Earth He saw that everything was good. Then we read in Genesis that Adam and Eve were tempted by a serpent to disobey God. To choose their wisdom over His, to choose a new level of knowledge rather than to trust that God had given them everything they needed. This is usually referred to as...
