Leap of Faith

Posted on March 31, 2007
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I’ve always regarded myself as someone who walks by faith. When Jonathan and I are seeking God and he asks us to do something, then we do. In the past when he has asked us to move to different places for him, we have done. We want to be where God wants us to be. We feel like God is asking us to make some major life changes at the moment, and I’m not sure I have enough faith this time to take the leap - I’m scared. How have you taken leaps of faith in the past? How has it worked out? I’d appreciate it if you could keep us in your prayers right now - thanks.

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The Global Warming Survival Guide

Posted on March 31, 2007
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This features in the new edition of Time Magazine.

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Worship

Posted on March 30, 2007
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I’ve been thinking about worship this morning, and how we do it. Do we make worship fall into a particular grid during our church services? I think we do. We always have a time slot for worship, and generally if the Holy Spirit is moving, then he politely gets told to stop because time has gone over and we need to hear our sermon now. Most songs we sing are congregation friendly, and some would say too femine and lovey dovey. I know in the past when I’ve had conversations with J about a particular worship song he has said “no we can’t do that it’s not congregational.” What do we mean by that? When we lived in Vancouver we used to have artists painting whilst worship was going on, along with the odd brake dancer doing his moves at the front - and what ever else went to be honest - very freeing though. At church, why don’t we spent more time with “alternative” worship, such as poetry, contemplation to instrumental music, art etc.

Most worship songs are about how great life is and that Jesus is our only focus the only one we live for. Can we honestly sing that though - is Jesus really the only one we are living for, if I’m honest I wouldn’t say that was the case in my life, I try my best, but recognise that I’m still a selfish being as well. Where are the up front honest worship songs - you know like “life sucks right now, I’m weak and struggling and have no idea if you even hear?” (I think these are what some refer to as more masculine songs). I guess they wouldn’t sell well at the Christian book store. Do we have freedom in church to really explore worship or are we too time constrained? Should worship be the main part of our church gathering, with just a 15 minute talk, or no talk at all if it is not necessary? How would you like to see worship at church, and how do you worship differently at home? I’m sure J will have an opinion on this one!

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The Kingdom of God

Posted on March 30, 2007
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I was just reading Jason Clark’s blog, and there is a post today called The Kingdom of God Challenge posted by Paul Mayers who is a guest blogger. It is basically a post asking how you would define the kingdom of God in five words or less. There are some interesting thoughts such as “a tree birds rest in”, “the real world”, “wish you were here?” etc. Do go and have a look. Anyway, I thought I would like to see what some of your ideas were - how would you define the kingdom of God? I wrote: One big adventure - all invited.

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