One of the advantages of having a severe asthma attack, is that you get to use a ventolin nebuliser pump which has the effect of ensuring you don’t sleep - apparantly it makes you breathe too which is always handy.
Yesterday a book that I have waited for a while arrived, and so I atleast had […]

“The covenant community is made up of kingdom people who together form the church that Jesus is building. We need to recapture the fundamental understanding that Christian do not “go to church”, they are the church. The simple but profound principles Jesus taught provide both basic discipleship and leadership development. They can be used to […]

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 […]

“As important as the health or growth of a congregation might be to its members, it hold little importance when compared to a faithful congregation that takes seriously the Great Commission. Perhaps that is why many of our prayers for the health and growth of our congregations go unheeded. I really doubt that God cared […]

Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch –

Mission (is) not merely an activity of the church. It is the very heartbeat work of God. It is in the very being of God that the basis for the missionary enterprise is found.  God is a sending God, with a desire to see humankind and creation reconciled, redeemed, […]

“True encounter wih Jesus liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, and ability to bounce back when we thought we were completely defeated, a capacity to grow and change, a power of creative transformation.”

Thomas Merton
via (DDP… It’s all about the journey)

“There is within you a raw and untamed faith, waiting to be unleashed”

Erwin Raphael McManus
(found in the UNOH newsletter)

Another quote from Elles sent in by Alan Hirsch:

“The difficulty is precisely that one cannot say: “Certainly our practice is poor, but consider the beauty, purity, and truth of revelation.” We have insisted on the unity of the two. We have to understand this. No recognizable revelation exists apart from the life and witness of […]

Alan Hirsch sends in the following quote that is worthy of reflection:

“The question that I want to sketch in this work is one that troubles me most deeply.  As I now see it, it seems to be insoluble and assumes a serious character of historical oddness.  It may be put very simply: How has it […]

Paul at Prodigal Kiwi has posted about his reflection on the movie Osama. In his reflection, Paul quotes Archbishop Rowan William’s and I thought I would post it here as well. It has made it into my Christmas day reflection for our morning service at Northern.

“Christmas is the Christian’s Christmas present to everybody else.

Christmas, […]