Watching a presentation by Eva Ensler today, I saw from a Buddhist what we are so sadly missing in our Christian sub culture and the cult of self.
read more...I just wrote my son Jordan (on a film set in Namibia) about a close friend who had recently had sex at the wrong time, with the wrong person, for the wrong reasons. On reflecting on this, I wanted to write both of them about my father’s heart on the issue. I thought I would share the letter with you too.
With love from a father.
read more...Ever noticed that most of the advice, preaching and education we get is from professional sources? This means that most of the key influences of our lives, the stuff that effects our soul, mind and hearts, comes to us by way of people who are paid to ‘minister’ to us. A professional is: def: [engaged in a specified activity as one’s main paid occupation rather than as a pastime]. Hmmm. I wonder if that effects what they tell us and why?
read more...Seems to me that the books that sell the most, workshops best attended and people most talked about are of the ‘self help’ genre. John and Stasi Eldredge talk about improving your masculine and feminine self. Rick Warren helps you understand your SPACE and purpose. Dr. Bruce Wilkinson teaches you how you can be more blessed and fulfill your dreams. Good ideas no?
read more...For fat to be effective, it requires a balance. If you have too much fat, it slows the rest of the system down. If you have tons of fat, you’re dead. In order to keep fat under control, you have to manage the IO (input and output). You get to enjoy ice cream, but need then have to walk it off to keep the balance. Fasting fat is not good for you either. If you don’t have enough, your body will have to use other stuff and this is not cool. So all in all, we need fat, but not too much of it.
read more...Simple stories and text book anecdotes at church make you feel like you’re learning until you try the sermon on your co-workers… but then again, you wouldn’t because they might think you’re foolish. Fools for Christ, right? Or maybe just foolish. Maybe these two hour weekly sessions are dumbing down the gospel. Maybe the kingdom of God is about mysteries that need a life to discover and pass on to others.
read more...It’s pretty difficult to build anything while you’re moving. You can learn a bit about the world, but you can’t do much about its issues while you are flying past it. You feel significant when you look at the stamps in your passport, but if you go back to the places you’ve been, they would call you a tourist. Like Erykah Badu says, “I ain’t got no buildings named after me.”
read more...My hero Landa Cope has written a great book on the old testament’s statement on what the kingdom looks like. Until her book comes out on the OT, here are a few NT statements:
read more...Fear of a ‘social gospel’ is almost completely abated and it’s time to move full speed into revealing the nature and character of God into the space that everyone moves in every day.
read more...You may not be winning today, but you are still a player because you will not let go, for any reason.
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