Jesus, why did you make me? Presumably for some kind of relationship. Apparently for a friendship. So why is there nothing? What do friends do? They talk together – spend time, laugh, discuss. I just sit. Where are you? I just sit and talk to the air. And wish it was different. Don’t you? But …
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i’ve just discovered that I’ve never really given grace
I’m so disappointed with my Christian enginiering. You know the place in your heart that spent a good deal of time learning what to and what not to say in order to look good. Yeah, you know the one… the socially acceptable Christian. The less “feeling” taste great Christian. It seems like for the first …
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The Curse of New-Testamentitis
There’s a plague across the land. It leads to much evil and pain. It deceives with its attractive twisting of the real truth. Dare you whisper its name? …new testamentitis… “NTitis” has been with us in various forms for a long time, but I feel it’s having a real resurgence at the moment in some …
Weakness Christianity
It’s not often I read something that says somthing better than I think I could (I’m quite arrogant, btw), but here is one: Quiet time guilt Wow. It has really moved me, and I want to add some thoughts below, but I would also like others to comment and reflect on this.
Hypocrisy, ignorance or plain simple?
On his destination home while walking down his street on a midsummers afternoon he notices a man far off by the pavement of his traditional church. ‘No it couldn’t be it must be a large object instead, a human could not be lying like that on the surface of where all are treading?’ He says …
Looser Syndrone!
I am stupid, I hear the lyrics of D.C Talk ‘Seek to confirm my suspision that I am still in need of a Saviour’ I total stink or is it that I am getting closer to God. If you spend five mins with me you’ll realise. I am a lier, a creep, bad boy friend, …
More harm than good!
I have recently been looking throgh Paul’s letter to the Corinthians and especially the bit about the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor 11 v 17-26). Although I have read this passage many times before, this time, it became very powerful. It’s the bit when Paul says to the Corinthians that they do more harm than good …
Seeing God as my dad and what I can learn from my actual dad
Whenever anyone mentions the whole God-is-your-father thing meaning think of God actually like you think about your parents, instead of just saying the word Father at the beginning of prayers, all I can think of is that you have to be careful about that because some people have bad fathers so that could give them …
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Losing My Religion
I have just finished reading a book called “Losing My Religion” by Gordon Lynch and I would strongly recommend it to anyone stuggling with evangelicalism. The book explores what its like to feel fed up with the way evangelicals see faith, and goes on to talk about what to do next. As someone who would …
Starving
Someone said yesterday that they’d been speaking to an African Christian who pointed out that when we say things like “we’re so lucky” and “God has given us so much” that is an incredibly materialistic view of the world. And this morning that set me thinking about how much God has given us spiritually: how …