Last night, we also looked at this passage from the sermon on the mount:
Salt and Light
13″Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You’ve lost your usefulness and will end up in […]

Last night at our one of our genx congregations we discussed the following quote:

“Most Christians are thermometers that register the temperature of majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society”
Martin Luther King
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In our discussion, we found it helpful to read it and pretend to be a fundmentalist, conservative Christian and then […]

Picture two odd-looking bespectacled goofs on a stage somewhere in Sydney. Who would have thought that one of them was the richest man in the world and the other was, well, a deputy sheriff with a whole range of cliches:

But what I think is remarkable about Unlimited Potential, what is remarkable about the contribution […]

I am finding some excellent new blogs and some of those that already reside on my bloglines profile have linked to signposts recently. So shout outs to father jake stops the world, underneath the dogwood, musings, abiding, abiding in him, thin spaces and reflexivity.
We always appreciate new readers. As some of you may […]

An interesting article arrived in my inbox this morning about television election advertising. It is based on US surveys and information but it seems pretty applicable to me:

Every year, like clockwork, the same shopworn phrases are intoned against a flow of stock footage in identical, shoddily produced attacks (”My opponent says he’s against terrorism—so […]

Each fortnight our kaleo and ministry team spend time in lectio divinia bible reading. We attempt to enter the biblical story as we share our reflections on the passage. This week we explored 1 Kings 19, where Elijah retreats to the mountain in an attempt to encounter God. But Elijah doesn’t experience God in the […]

For a while now I have resisted commenting on the lead-up to the federal election here in Oz because of previous bad experiences. The last federal election, phil and I were whiling away the evening in a little motel at phillip island. Phil was doing some input for a Victorian Council of Churches […]

In the comments thread below, George asks:

Hey Dan, how aout a response to my questions above about how do we show God’s love to a sinner that needs to repent?
My answer started out as a comment, but got too long. So here it is:
My answer is that we all know how to show love […]

Scott has some words about “prophets” in the church:

if you want to be an infallible prophet in my church then fine - let’s play by the biblical rules — if you are wrong we get to kill you. if you hear God’s voice sometimes and feel led to share what he has said to you […]

I really liked this post:
1. What do you think is the cause of your heterosexuality?
2. When did you first realise you might be heterosexual
3. Have you told your parents? What did they think of it?
4. Are there others like you in your family?
5. Don’t you think your heterosexuality might be a phase you are going […]