Entries Tagged as 'Christian Living'
A Short Thought on Missions Funding
May 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
If you are supporting missionaries overseas at the moment, heres something to think about: The falling value of the pound is significantly reducing the viagra without prescription value of donations made in UK Sterling destined for workers overseas. While supporters here in the UK may still be giving the same amount, those receiving gifts overseas [...]
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An Easter post – a little late
April 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Following on from my foray into blogging poems I enjoyed – I think sometimes the wonder of the biblical narrative is only really captured in poetry. Here’s a poem for Easter. From the far star points of his pinned extremities,cold inched in—black ice and squid ink—till the hung flesh was empty.Lonely in that void even [...]
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Evangelism is…
March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Jason Clark has a superb guest post which summarises Bryan Stone’s book Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness by creating 12 statements about Evangelism. Click through to see a more detailed treatment. Image 1: Evangelism is… the church being present in the world. Image 2: Evangelism is… essentially embodied in everything [...]
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End of Week Round Up
March 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments
The Round up has returned fom a temporary hiatus, and I have a big back log, far too long for one post, but if you are interested in where I find all this interesting stuff you can subscribe to my Google Reader Shared feeds/Twitter/Del.icio.us or the friendfeed which is a culmination of all of the [...]
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Re-imagining our lives as mission
March 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off
Ive been thinking of ways of understanding mission and missional activities which are inclusive. By that I mean ways of describing and summarizing the work of missions that does not allow us to annex the term to the common conception of somewhat ‘working in Africa’.
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Start of Week Round up
January 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Making my way through 600 unread feeds (going to need to begin pairing things down soon!) I came across of few things that might interest you: If your a bit of an amateur theology book buyer, you might like to drool over the following list, the library of systematician J. Rodman Williams library, selling for [...]
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Contemplation of Scripture is primarily Spiritual before it is literary
January 13th, 2009 · Comments Off
The older contemplators of scripture possessed the art of seeing the total form within individual forms and of bringing it to light from within them. But this naturally presuposes an understanding of totality that is spiritual and not literary.- von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord, p.550
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Image of God
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Spirituality means, among other things, taking ourselves seriously. It means going against the cultural stream in which we are incessantly trivialized to the menial status of producers and performers, constantly depersonalised behind the labels of our degrees or our salaries. But there is far more than our usefulness and our reputation, where we’ve been and [...]
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Start of the week Round Up
December 16th, 2008 · Comments Off
In the absence of my tradition of doing an end of the week round up for the last few weeks due to various technical faults (a case of the bad workman blaming his tools a bit there) I thought I’d send you in the direction of a few things I picked up on today: Andy [...]
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Sub-contracting our Ambassadorship
December 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
I’ve been thinking this morning about how we as a western church may have fallen further in the consumerist culture more than we may think. Whilst it clearly has many advantages, I wonder if the practise of paying church leaders a salary from the tithe gives us the impression or at least the sub-concious suspicion [...]
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