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
Unfreezing Move #7 – Hire Servants not professionals
Firstly let us say that I find the use of the word “servants” a little unfortunate. Is […]

NT Wright in this article in the Australian has much to say about the bodily resurrection and whether a belief in this is necessary to be a Christian. He also talks about Dan Brown and his best seller book - The Davinci Code, which is soon to be made into a movie and compares it […]

NT Wright from his Maundy Thursday Sermon:
“I was studying this newly discovered little tract, the ‘Gospel of Judas’, yesterday morning, and reading what some of its editors had written about it; and there crept over me the horrible sense of a lie cheerfully told, a lie which people are eager to believe, a lie which […]

Geoff Bullock pointed out that the master link page we have of the rewrites that Geoff had done for many of his well known songs was not working. This was due to an update of the theme we did. Our apologies - it is now working and can be seen here - I will also […]

Geoff Bullock gives us the heads up that he has set up a web site and has a number of his songs for download.
So far there are:
Spirit of Life
Just a simple prayer for the broken, failed and flawed…. all of us.
Reflections of Grace
This is a simple prayer for me to remember to apply the […]

Interesting article in the Melbourne Age today, that examines the state of American Christianity. In particular it looks at what the Christian lobby groups in America advocate for and how far they are from the message of Jesus.
In reading the article, I think we can and should apply the same criticism against Churches in most […]

I have been enjoying the discipline of bible reading that the Mark for Lent series has required of me.  While I haven’t always strictly managed to do this every day, committing to post up the readings has required that I read them regularly.  I am thinking that I might continue this with some other books […]

Bob Hyatt a couple of weeks ago wrote this wonderful reflection on Good Friday. I bookmarked it in my rss reader so I could come back and read it on the actual day of Good Friday.
He writes:
“I once attended a Good Friday service where the pastor encouraged us to look at Good Friday positively, […]

A number of old endings to Mark’s gospel.  Thought to be later additions by scribes who found that the original ending of Mark’s Gospel was missing something or left something to be desired.

Today we have what the earliest versions of the gospel of Mark show as the end of the gospel - the empty tomb.  I will post up the alternative endings of the gospel (thought to be later additions) separately.