It’s not often I read something that says somthing better than I think I could (I’m quite arrogant, btw), but here is one: Quiet time guilt Wow. It has really moved me, and I want to add some thoughts below, but I would also like others to comment and reflect on this.
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Hypocrisy, ignorance or plain simple?
On his destination home while walking down his street on a midsummers afternoon he notices a man far off by the pavement of his traditional church. ‘No it couldn’t be it must be a large object instead, a human could not be lying like that on the surface of where all are treading?’ He says …
Looser Syndrone!
I am stupid, I hear the lyrics of D.C Talk ‘Seek to confirm my suspision that I am still in need of a Saviour’ I total stink or is it that I am getting closer to God. If you spend five mins with me you’ll realise. I am a lier, a creep, bad boy friend, …
More harm than good!
I have recently been looking throgh Paul’s letter to the Corinthians and especially the bit about the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor 11 v 17-26). Although I have read this passage many times before, this time, it became very powerful. It’s the bit when Paul says to the Corinthians that they do more harm than good …
Seeing God as my dad and what I can learn from my actual dad
Whenever anyone mentions the whole God-is-your-father thing meaning think of God actually like you think about your parents, instead of just saying the word Father at the beginning of prayers, all I can think of is that you have to be careful about that because some people have bad fathers so that could give them …
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Losing My Religion
I have just finished reading a book called “Losing My Religion” by Gordon Lynch and I would strongly recommend it to anyone stuggling with evangelicalism. The book explores what its like to feel fed up with the way evangelicals see faith, and goes on to talk about what to do next. As someone who would …
Starving
Someone said yesterday that they’d been speaking to an African Christian who pointed out that when we say things like “we’re so lucky” and “God has given us so much” that is an incredibly materialistic view of the world. And this morning that set me thinking about how much God has given us spiritually: how …
Hip Hop: The unforgivable sin?
“Blessed are those in the struggle, oppression is worse than the grave. It is better to live and die for a noble cause than to live and die as a slave.” It was these lyrics to a track by Black Samurai that first inspired me to write an article. It is the subject and objects …
Why go on about belief?
I’ve been worrying about this a bit lately, and recently I’ve read several bits of the Bible that make me worry more: why is God so interested in us believing in him? The usual way we are told you become a Christian is by believing, turning away from everything we do wrong, and giving our …
Turn the other cheek, George
I thought you might be interested in reading the following article: Turn the other cheek, George. It is also well worth trawling through all the responses – among the “Religion is stupid!”-like comments there are some really good embellishments and counter-arguments from both Christians and others.