Noted on Bunnie Diehl’s blog, a great advert for our true religion.
Archive for October, 2005
New Zealand Church famous in USA
Friday, October 28th, 2005The broadening focus of American Evangelicalism
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Long article, but interesting and hopeful (via Sojomail)
Final selection: #4
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
You feel stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
Every calendar’s days are numbered.
Once you’ve seen one huge shopping centre, you’ve seen a mall.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
fabbo weekend
Monday, October 24th, 2005Just back from a very cool weekend at Riversdale, out past Masterton. Thanks to Dave’n'Ange for organising it and huge ups to Ange for her marvelous cooking.
Such a good relaxing time. I recommend doing something similar. Hire a beach house for a long weekend and go with your friends. Awesome.
Getting te word out
Monday, October 24th, 2005The temple of the cosmos
Monday, October 17th, 2005The ancients believed that the way to depict the cosmos was with a Temple. In it, the gods and men meet, on certain terms and conditions.
Isreal believed this, too. She carried the picture of the beautiful Edenic future around in the Ark of the Covenant, and looked for the land in which the Garden might be re-established. Torah supplied the terms and conditions.
Paul says that the Christians become God’s new Temple, being united to Christ. Christ is the real Temple. He is the future, the resurrection and the life. He is the new Torah.
By the Spirit, you (we) are the picture of the future, walking around in Christ, in the present. You (we) depict the future.
Grasp this by faith. Live the resurrection.
And do not play the harlot or the false prophet. The Temple of the cosmos is not dedicated to sex, or money, or power. They are not its gods, but YHWH alone.
Relativising time
Monday, October 17th, 2005Living the biblical story, we are simply waiting for time to catch up the the reality already accomplished in Christ.
Insanely busy
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005But today we made our first employee.
A selection: #3
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead giveaway.)
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.
She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
Newly Found
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005Christian blog number 8 wire: fair amount on science and politics, posts referencing authors both ancient and modern…
Reorientation
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005I was taught to believe that I shouldn’t sin, but if I did it was covered by Jesus’ perfect sacrifice that paid for, ‘all my sins, past present and future, once I accepted him as my personal saviour’. In other words “Jesus died so I don’t have to” instead of, “Jesus died, so I need to take up my cross and follow him.”
Deb Kromis, Wrightsaid
A selection: #2
Saturday, October 1st, 2005A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two tired.
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.
When two egotists meet, it’s an I for an I.
An aspect of humility
Saturday, October 1st, 2005M. Scott Peck said (via Bruderhof’s Daily Dig),
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others…But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.
Apparently he died this week.