Entries Tagged as 'Church'
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 [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Theology Thoughts · Worship
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 [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Hat Tips · Theology Thoughts
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 [...]
Tags: Apple · Christian Living · Church · Technology · Theology Thoughts
Re-thinking Church Membership
January 27th, 2009 · Comments Off
I’ve been thinking recently about Church Membership and how our structures can impinge upon our understandings of the Kingdom of God as wider than our local Christian community. I Just read about a brilliant practice of kicking your church members out every year (my words not theirs) then “Everyone is invited to pray and seek [...]
Tags: Church
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 [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church
A Biblical Immigration policy?
November 28th, 2008 · Comments Off
When a stranger lives with you in your land, do not ill-treat him. The stranger living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were strangers in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:33-34Although I’ve never delved into the economic and social complexities of the [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · The World · politics
To live Justly
November 25th, 2008 · Comments Off
“Thus to say that the church must pursue societal justice is certainly right, but it is not very informative. For justice needs to displayed and imaginatively construed by a people who have been formed to know that genuine justice derived from our receiving what is not due us. Such people serve the cause of justice [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Justice · Theology Thoughts
21st Century Missions – Trevin Wax
November 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments
To continue our 21st Century Missions series, Trevin Wax who blogs over at Kingdom People has been good enough to write the fourth response in the series that has dealt with the approach to finance in mission. You can find the rest of the posts from the series so far here. I asked Trevin to [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Theology Thoughts
A Death in a Youth Group
November 4th, 2008 · Comments Off
Rachel and I, along with some family and friends worked for a Church here in Scotland for a couple of years, being involved with youth and community work, over that time we got to know most of the kids in the small village in which we lived, a select few we got to know very [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · My Life · Theology Thoughts
The gospel frees us from the gods of this world
October 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
“So for example, the world is not increasingly secular. It is always secular, by definition, and the Church is here for the sake of this world. But it is not that society is secular while Christians are religious, but rather the other way around. All members of this secular society are propelled by unnameable forces, [...]
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