Faith
Tomb of the Seven Sleepers
I came across an extremely interesting account while researching the city of Ephesus last week. The legend goes like this… Around 250AD, when Christians were being fiercely persecuted, seven young men refusing to recant their faith, gave their worldly goods to the poor and retreated to a mountain cave to pray (and await capture, followed [...]
You can take this job and…
Some people think being a full-time youth pastor (or any pastor for that matter) is very easy money. You can see it in their eyes when they ask “What do you do all week?” (if I had a dollar for every time…). Agreed, I don’t have to perform endless hours of manual labour, but believe [...]
Kali, Thugees & the Temple of Doom
Those of us raised on a regular media diet in the 80′s will remember well Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I was all nostalgic the other day, and watched it on DVD (the first time in nearly twenty years). I must say that I was appalled by the human-sacrifice-to-Kali-goddess-of-death-by-thugge-cult-fanatics-in-temple-under-palace scene. The ‘Fast Forward’ [...]
The Greatest Gift
A television interviewer was walking streets of Tokyo at Christmas time. Christmas shopping is a very big commercial success in Japan. The interviewer stopped one young woman on the sidewalk, and asked, “What is the meaning of Christmas?”Laughing, she responded, “I don’t know. Is that the day that Jesus died?” Sadly, there was some truth [...]
That’s why we pray…
We visited the in-laws today. They have just moved into a new house. My 4 year old daughter went into the bathroom to find a facecloth. I was in the hallway at the time when there was an almighty BANG, followed by extremely loud WAILING coming from the bathroom. I dropped my icecream (as you [...]
O how He loves us!
This song is absolutely phenomenal! It’s amazing how powerful a worship time one can have with the assistance of Youtube ;-). Thanks heaps Neen and co. for introducing the song at camp. Whoever’s leading worship on Sunday morning, 21st Dec has to do this! (I have a cunning plan…) And for everyone who has a [...]
Spurgeon rocks!
Sometimes I really wonder if our ‘modern-day Christianity’ bares any resemblance at all to the faith and lives of our forefathers. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (born in 1834) will forever be known as ‘The Prince of Preachers’. He spoke the following words in 1882… “Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of [...]
Filling now or root-canal later
Growing up in the 70′s and early 80′s, dental hygiene wasn’t a priority like it is today. Boy, I wish it was. A couple of years ago I had a cavity filled. At the time, the dentist said that I had a minor cavity on another tooth, and that I should get it filled sooner [...]
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