Ross Daws proclaims the good news:
“Sophie Ellen burst into the world at 21 minutes past midnight this morning, weighing a healthy 3.72 Kgs. Both she and Mum are doing well, and Dad is in desperate need of coffee (so many people may not even notice the difference!).
It is a day for gladness and rejoicing! […]

We are continuing our look at the book by Bill Easum - Unfreezing Moves - Following Jesus into the mission field
The other posts in the series can be found here
The foundations of Transformation and Innovation
In Chapter five, Easum explores the foundations of transformation and innovation. He first points out that in this new context of […]

Today Jesus tells again about his death and James and JOhn ask to sit at the right hand and left hand of Jesus when he comes into his glory.
Mark 10:32-45
Jesus Again Tells about His Death (Matthew 20.17-19; Luke 18.31-34)
32The disciples were confused as Jesus led them toward Jerusalem, and his other followers were afraid. Once […]

Sorry that I didn’t post this up yesterday, but Phil and I were at the Red Hill Show watching the high dog scramble which was fun. Anyway today (yesterday) we had the story of the rich young man.

Maggi Dawn an Anglican minister in the UK, links up the top ten reasons why men should not be ordained.
“10. A man’s place is in the army.
9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent.
8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks […]

Alan sends a link to an interesting article from Christianity today about Messianic Jews (Jews who believe that Jesus is the Messiah”.
“I believe Yeshua ha-Notzree, Jesus of Nazareth, is the Messiah. Despite my two Jewish parents (one deceased) and having passed through a bris as well as a bar mitzvah, many Jews won’t consider me […]

We are continuing our look at the book by Bill Easum - Unfreezing Moves - Following Jesus into the mission field
The other posts in the series can be found here
The innovative congregation
Easum opens up chapter four with this statement:
“The permission-giving organization is by nature an innovative environment that is constantly keeping the status quo from […]

As we have been discussing Intelligent Design, Creation and Evolution, this caught my eye on digg.com today.
“On February 20th, the infamously pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute released news that over 500 doctoral scientists had signed its statement “publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution.”
A day earlier, a newly launched coalition of scientists, […]

A short passage today, containing teaching about divorce

This thread is about to reach 1000 comments. Wow. You do realise that this is why we are shunned by anyone with religious or political power. Anyway, when it does tick over to 4 digits, it seems a suitable time for us to cut off the comments on that post. We have been meaning to […]