Something that made me think…

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Jesus in Drag

I went to a hen’s night last night for a very good friend of mine who is getting married in two weeks.
She is a crazy, hilarious rock chick and I love being around her and the bunch of friends that surround her (and by extension, me). True to her nature, we had dinner at [...]

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I’ve been thinking…

Today I spent most of the day thinking about what I heard this morning.
Many things ran through my head:
“Why me? Can’t somebody else do it who’s better at this stuff?” (after which Moses came to mind – not saying I’m anything like Moses, but I seem to have the same excuses)
“What if it [...]

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Food? What food?

I’ve been having a far-too-early-morning conversation with God. I just had to get up and blog about it. I don’t know if I’ve ever told any of you, but I get these “words” from God. A few people in my real life know, along with those I’ve had words for. I [...]

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Polls! Cool!

Since WordPress have just put out an integrated poll facility, I had to try it out.
So, for no other reason than to satisfy my own curiosity, please tell me how you first found this blog:

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Blog Action Day – Poverty

I started writing this post for Blog Action Day, describing how service to the poor was woven into the law of the Israelites from the beginning.  Then I deleted it and talked about Jesus and his view of the poor.  Then I deleted it and got writers block.
There is a world of information I could [...]

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What did YOU learn?

I just had a comment on one of my old posts that surprised me.
John clicked through from Barb’s blog and read what I picked as my favourite blog post – Things I learned from church that didn’t prove true (and what I am learning lately) then left a comment that intrigued me.
I found it very interesting that [...]

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Today is your day (and other lies) part 2

More lies from the prosperity preachers:
A prosperous life (financial freedom, happy family) means you are blessed by God, and the reverse means you obviously aren’t.
Money, a happy family, a good education, a successful career, a nice house, prosperity – they are nice things, for sure.  Sometimes they can make us stumble, but generally they are [...]

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Today is your day (and other lies)

“This is your day!  Today!  God has all his blessings in store for you and he’s ready to pour them out today!”
(sounds good so far, huh?)
“Just send your seed gift of $39.95…”
I still don’t understand – I doubt I ever will – how people can be that gullible.  Unfortunately desperation often overrides commonsense and these [...]

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Rahab’s Kitchen

 
A little place called Rahab’s Kitchen is now well and truly up and running.  The idea of a safe place to share was conceived by a few of my very good bloggy friends and it seems to be working extrememely well.
So if you haven’t already, head on over there and add it to your reader – you [...]

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Oh My Dear Lord (again!)

This is scary.  Sad.  Hilarious.  Weird.  I don’t know.
WARNING: Put down the drink before watching this video.  Your keyboard will thank you.

I love the leaps of logic here:  “So just like Moses, as a sign of honour, as a sign that you are removing the things that separate you from the [...]

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I am joining in Blog Action Day – are you?

Head across to http://blogactionday.org to register and join in!

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Mankind is no island

If you haven’t yet seen the 2008 Tropfest winning short film, please watch it.  It might be the most important three and a half minutes you spend today.

(Via Matt Stone)

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Of boats and real selves

Barb wrote a fantastic post about boats.  Please go read it now before you read this, because without it my post won’t make any sense at all.
I wrote a long and rambling comment on her blog that I think needs to be cross-posted here too.
So here is my maritime story:
My old “boat” was as destructive but [...]

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A Little Linkage

I’m close enough to the bottom of my Google Reader that I can finally draft this post.  That is an accomplishment in itself seeing that a couple of weeks ago my reader ominously proclaimed 1000+ items.
So here goes:
Glenn Hager tackles the difficult topic of addressing his problems with the institutional church.
Barb contextualises good news to [...]

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Twitter

I am giving it a try.  Temporarily, probably, but we shall see how it goes.  So for the next little while (read: until I get bored with it) I will be sending updates to Twitter.  You can see the feed on the right sidebar or if you’re already a seasoned twitterer (or should that be [...]

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UnChristian – a first review

I’m still in the middle of Unchristian: What a new generation thinks about Christianity …and why it matters by David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyons.  What a book!  I can’t just read it straight through like a novel because it contains so much information that I need some time to digest it in between readings.
Since reading [...]

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