All posts in category Christianity

Being told otherwise

It’s interesting the whole ‘listening to God’ thing. We talk about it a lot with Soul Survivor. It’s something I find both easy but difficult. Things tend to wriggle their way at me terribly abstractly. It appears I listen better when I have a couple of things to connect the dots. The other night Geoff [...]

I’ll have a sedate year thanks

trees

It’s January and the Christmas tree is still up, the lounge room however wall has changed colour and I’ve at very least sorted a few things out but the garden is a jungle, I haven’t cooked for myself in several days and so on… There are a few things I would like to improve on [...]

Prayer

Prayer the Churches banquet, angels age, Gods breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth; Engine against th’ Almightie, sinner’s towre, Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear, The six daies world-transposing in an houre, A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear; [...]

Eucatastrophe

Despite all of the marvelous design specific publications out there, I find myself consistently drawn to a little Victorian publication about fresh Australian writing. Harvest is excellent. It is varied, it is pretty, it is emotive and contains some truly brilliant work and some rather nice illustration. I took Harvest on the train with me [...]

He Woke Me Up Again

He was, he was in the churchyard My father was in the first part He came, he came to my bedroom But I was asleep He woke me up again to say: Halle, Halle, Halleluiah Holy, holy is the sound And I hope, I hope you are tired out And I know, I know there [...]