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Worship and Discipleship by Josiah Gillespie

October 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Josiah is one of those great people in my life who I dont have to see for ages and we can still hang out and have a great time. Although he may not remember it, he very patiently taught me how to play my first song on the guitar, a worship song at that. Along [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Worship

As if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

“Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God’s commandments and of never having kept any of them, and even though I am still inclined toward all evil, nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Theology Thoughts

Come Thou Fount

September 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Rachel and I sang this song together the other night and went over the lines to understand them properly, whilst making a decision about whether to use it in our wedding in just over 2 weeks time. It is a great song and the original author Robert Robinson penned the words at age 22 [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · My Life · Theology Thoughts

Love that Conquers the World

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

The love for equals is a human thing – of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing – the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Hat Tips

Donald Miller prays at the DNC

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments

There will surely be a critique of his involvement and the contents of the prayer, but all in all I think it is very well written, with a balance on the political issues at hand and a recognition that it is Gods inbreaking into the lives and society of America.  Father God, [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · The World · politics

My Financial Hypocrisy

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

I was perusing face  (stalker) book yesterday morning and came across some photos of a friend who visited The Call DC when it was on recently. My first thought was, wow, that looks great, but I then I began to think ‘how much did it cost to put an event like that on? How [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Worship

The need to redress the balance in Charismatic Churches

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Though I wouldn’t self identify with the label Charismatic, I certainly believe in what are commonly referred to as the ‘gifts’ and have observed the tradition close  up in recent years. With all this said, the recent events have highlighted to me once again that the charismatic tradition needs to take a long hard [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Hat Tips

Mid Week Round up

August 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I only had time to add the technology links from last weeks end of week round up, so here are a few that were left off but still deserve to be plugged. The Center for Barth Studies publishes a new version of the Shorter Romans Commentary Christian Audio are giving away Augustine’s [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Hat Tips · Theology Thoughts

Is Theology actually useful for the Church?

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I was recently asked quite a common question so I thought I would share my two cents and see if any of you had any thoughts on the subject. The Question was really more of a statement which wanted an answer: "Sometimes I wonder what use theology is for real people in real churches" [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Justice · Theology Thoughts · Worship

Please Pray for Todd Bentley

August 13th, 2008 · 10 Comments

I received an official looking email from an organisation today saying that Todd Bentley has begun Canadian law divorce proceedings with his wife. I haven’t blogged at all about the Lakeland happenings or the subsequent Pentecostal excitement surrounding it primarily because I couldn’t trust myself to give a balanced account of it [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Theology Thoughts