Mark for Lent 39
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006Today, Jesus is buried
Archive for April, 2006
The gospel of Judas
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006I should have posted up this before but I must admit I was thinking that I didn’t think it would attract much attention. Yesterday though I was siting in my office trying to do some work when my skype program pinged me and it was the co-founder of the podcastnetwork wanting to get me on […]
Does God put a stop to bad things?
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006An interesting question has been posed in one of the hillsongs threads:
“Does God put a stop to bad things?”
It is a question that was made in the context of what some believe are bad teachings of prosperity theology etal.. but it it is wider question than that.
If the Church is doing bad things, if the […]
How Islamic inventors changed the world
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006Alan sent in a link a while ago to an interesting article about how Islamic inventors changed the world. I only just got around to reading it.
“From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, […]
Exploring emerging embracing
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006Just received news that regular commenter Greg the Explorer has caught the blogging bug and is posting at his new site. Go over and say hi.
Unfreezing Move Six – Organizing around the DNA
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006We 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 Six – Organizing around the DNA
Easum writes that
“effective congregations discover that they are not organized to carry out their DNA and […]
Mark for Lent 38
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006Today we have the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
hillsongs - the next installment
Monday, April 10th, 2006As the comments in two weeks have gone beyond 500 comments - here is the new thread..
Mark for Lent 37
Monday, April 10th, 2006In today’s reading, Jesus is questioned again, this time by Pilate. Pilate later offers to free Jesus but the crowd shouted to nail him to a cross so instead, Barabbas is freed.
a reflection on theological language
Sunday, April 9th, 2006Alan sends in this article by Charles Sherlock (here he is again!):
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How do you respond when asked to sing this? (The tune is a rousing march, emphasising ‘arise!’)
We live, we live, his breath is in us,
Arise, a mighty army, we arise!
It makes a neat switch from Ezekiel’s vision (Ezekiel 37) to […]