Power is everything (part 2)
Monday, March 1st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »(part 1) Jesus is all about power. He hung around with prostitutes, touched people with leprosy, washed his disciples' feet. But the first Christians didn't tell everyone how nice he was. They told everyone how powerful he was. They said he was ...
Power is everything
Friday, February 12th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »Everything is about power. Your job is about power. Your boss gets the power to tell you what to do and you get the power to buy stuff. Your degree is about power. The power to get the job you want. The ...
What is it?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »What is it? I asked my Scripture class at Hollywood PS this afternoon, and they came up with all sorts of answers. Was it a pencil sharpener? A toy pet? A paperweight? But when they pushed down on the bird, it ...
How to grow a church
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Make it illegal to meet in groups of more than twenty-five. That's what the Chinese government has done. So whenever a Chinese house-church tips over to twenty-six, they are forced to split. Suddenly there are two churches where there used to ...
God is back
Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Books | 1 Comment »The title may make it sound like a argument for faith-based politics or a breathless refutation of neo-atheism, but it is neither. In God is Back, former Economist journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, show that, contrary to the expectation ...
How to get married
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Girls: ignore this post. Married guys: ignore this post. Unmarried guys: READ THIS POST. Introducing the the Guys Guide to Marrying Well. If you plan to ever get married, download it and read it. It is gold. (And looks pretty cool, too.) READ IT ...
Indonesian adventure
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As you heard at church last night, Ken Frewer is taking a bunch of us to Indonesia over the next couple of weeks. On the team with Ken are Adrian Mikula, Steve Ritchie, Gavin Parsons and his son Sam, Peter ...
Great Debates: where to read more
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | No Comments »After our series on Great Debates at Tuesday Hub, a few people have asked me what they could read to find out more. If you're interested in reading some church history, here's two titles I recommend (and yes, camp people, ...
Why these books and not those?
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Books, Church, History | No Comments »Last Tuesday at Hub we explored the way in which the New Testament formed, as churches shared documents, built their libraries, and decided which books they would read in church and trust for teaching. But how did the churches know whether ...
Deep fried heaven at the end of the earth
Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in Fun, Miscellaneous | 4 Comments »One of the curious symptoms of Perth's isolation (3000 km from Sydney, same from Jakarta, pretty much the opposite position on the globe to New York) is that some things take on a significance far greater than their value. Today Ash ...
