A literal interpretation of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac.
When God is anti-Christ-like
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Everyone is a Believer
//The question we should ask is not: “Do you believe?” but rather “What do you believe and does it bring LIFE?”
Sunday 26th June 2011
//Welcome…
Do these words by JRR Tolkien also resonate with you? “It is the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish.”
Yes there are things I just never get round to finishing because I never get round to starting them! Yet I expect them to get finished and I am annoyed when they don’t. Crazy but true. This can include things like cleaning out my office, or replying to mail received an embarrassingly long time ago. Or at a deeper level, like the perpetual postponement to prioritise my time and energy around what I know to be the passionate core of my life, as well as the reluctance to attend to “inner work” that has been biding for my full attention forever.
What are the “unfinished” areas of your life? Are they unfinished because they have never been started? Lets begin to begin…. Alan
Say NO to the Secrecy Bill
//South Africa’s amazing constitution was written from the perspective of protecting the vulnerable but sadly the proposed Protection of Information Bill betrays our constitution in that it is written from the perspective of protecting the privileged. Lean more about it from at the Rights To Know website.
CMM Restoration (Progress)
//We’ve made significant progress since we began restoring CMM. This vid looks at the progress we have made so far.
Embedded in this post is our before video, too, so you can see, side-by-side, just how much we’ve managed to achieve.
Continue reading “CMM Restoration (Progress)”
Sunday 19th June 2011
//Welcome!
A special thanks to Dr Gilbert Lawrence for preaching this morning while I am preaching at Edgemead Methodist Church for a Manna and Mercy course this weekend. Thanks Gilbert!
During Wednesday Church this past week we discussed the “Protection of Information Bill” presently before parliament and how in its current form threatens our fledgling democracy. We decided to make a giant banner that we will hang from the bell tower declaring: “The Truth will keep us Free”
In our discussion we discovered that …
1. We need to confront our feeling of powerlessness to make a difference.
2. We need to confront our tendency to not do anything because we can’t do everything. We need to do the right thing in the right way, right now—regardless of the result.
3. We need to realise that the struggle for justice is not over even though for some of us our lives are comfortable and secure.
As a Pentecost people we do what we do trusting / knowing all the while that more is being done in and through us by God and for God. God needs us but it is not all dependent on us! Strength, Alan
The Most Intimate Have the Most Questions About Jesus
//Why asking many questions of Jesus is a greater sign of knowing Jesus intimately, then merely ‘believing’ you’ve figured him out.
St. Paul’s Engagement With People of Another Faith
//What St. Paul can teach us of engaging with people with faiths different from our own
When a Chapter Breaks in Scripture, Break the Storyline (Part 2)
//On reading scripture with your feet wet, and a second example of how reading a chapter in isolation from those that precede it can be dangerous.
Be sure to catch part 1 over here if you missed it previously
When the Chapter Breaks in Scripture, Break the Storyline (Part 1)
//Reflections on Jesus’s saying that there are many rooms in my Father’s house, and how a break in scripture can mistakenly break a narrative.