Posted in Books, Christianity, Culture, Humor on Jul 27th, 2008
Mike Hogan and David Crowder’s book Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die was a lovely surprise. I found it randomly one day on sale (so bought it)- didn’t even know the man had written a book or two despite loving his music for quite a while.
It is a really interesting [...]
Posted in Christianity, Church on Jul 22nd, 2008
Somewhat disassociated with the previous post (kind of, kind of not) was that on Sunday evening we had a guy come speak to the youth/young adults at our church.
To be honest, I wasn’t really very impressed. Yes he said some good stuff, but I don’t understand and it disturbs me when what someone is saying [...]
Posted in Christianity, Church on Jul 21st, 2008
…the speaker/preacher makes a hand motion for the guitarist (or other musical person) to continue playing softly in the background while they pray. If that’s NOT emotional manipulation or the more gentle explanation of mood managing, then why not keep playing through the announcements! Oh the realisation! You can pray without a backing track AND [...]
Posted in Christianity, Church, Relationships, Social Justice, Solomon Islands on Jul 13th, 2008
My fingers are not as fluent as they are with a pen as they are with a keyboard so here is my confession that my journal writing was not so up to scratch as I would have liked while being away. In a small way my brain stalled. I will share what I did wind [...]
Posted in Christianity, Church, Social Justice on Jul 13th, 2008
A brief interlude from nothing while I continue ploughing through my Google Reader items to catch up on all the blogs I missed while away before I update my own.
I highly recommend these sessions from Steve Said about the Kingdom of God. I was present for some of these particular recordings and I’ve heard him [...]
