and another thing
last sunday i was in the kitchen doing the washing up/ revision dodging and listening to the sunday surgery on radion 1. Callers phone in with problems and they do their best to help and advise them, also opening up some problems to the listerners to txt or ring in. It struck me that although, i didnt neccessaryily agree with the advice give on all things, radio one are doing a lot more to help the teenagers of this culture on a sunday that however many million churches met up the same day. I know sunday is about a celebration meeting but i really think that its would be good if churhes did communal worship expressed in something other than praise. I strongly believe in praiseing God together through music but i think that its easy to grow up in a church thinking that worship is praise and then hearing later from a sermon that worship is about your whole life. What if instead of signing praises together some sunday the whole church went out and washed cars and then came back for a sermon?
Friday, January 31, 2003
finnished my exams on tueday :) and my hip was/is better enough to go dancing so its been a good few days. We went to a club called Rhinos last night that does a really cool 70's night and normally you have to be there really early or the queue gets huge, but last night it was FREEEEEEZING cold and we (as in my cell group from church) got there at 9:20 thats 40 minutes before they openned the doors. At 10 exactly there was a bit of queque but not the normal and it was so cold stanging there that long. But i think we all had a better night for it... The cold built anitcipation, gave us determination to enjoy what we were waiting for and united the group into a big huddle. And the music was incredablie, i had forgotten how much i love to dance ( i havent been since... probably the formal) praise God that not only did he make us so amazingly but he made music too and knew how it would make us feel :)
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
walking
dont ever take it forgranted. my hip is really inflamed which means i have had a really comical (and sometimes painful) limp for the last week or so, it is getting better Praise the Lord, but today to have just a wee limp was like having wings :) so dont take even the tiny thing of walking forgranted. On the plus side i have got a lot more work and sleeping done in the last while because i havent been able to go out dancing, which is really cool. We did our final bridge presentation today, which was cool, we managed to blag a LCD projector and were able to use flash and powerpoint to woo the audience, it was all incrediabley last minute ( as some of you who know me might be abel to imagine :) but the Lord was with us and if all came off... i also was able to write stuff down in a maths test this morining so today is so far a great day :)
dont ever take it forgranted. my hip is really inflamed which means i have had a really comical (and sometimes painful) limp for the last week or so, it is getting better Praise the Lord, but today to have just a wee limp was like having wings :) so dont take even the tiny thing of walking forgranted. On the plus side i have got a lot more work and sleeping done in the last while because i havent been able to go out dancing, which is really cool. We did our final bridge presentation today, which was cool, we managed to blag a LCD projector and were able to use flash and powerpoint to woo the audience, it was all incrediabley last minute ( as some of you who know me might be abel to imagine :) but the Lord was with us and if all came off... i also was able to write stuff down in a maths test this morining so today is so far a great day :)
Sunday, January 12, 2003
recursive christianity
it was this time last year that i was in mexico and God was providing from me 100% and i felt really really alive. i was thinking about how to rely on God fully in this bit of the world ....
It seems that vision and focus are very important, if I have a right image of Jesus (ie Him on a cross for me/you not an angry old man throwing lightening bolts or a chilled out hippy on a cloud not caring what happens, (a great sermon from ems duncan pointed this out)) and if I focus on that right image of Jesus spending time in intamacy, desiring spiritual gifts and developing fruits of the spirit, then passion will come and I can be a living sacrifice 100% of the time, and I can keep fighting to love people and give God the glory for EVERTHING. But the thing is to do this i need to Rely on God's strength and not just say things are fine cause this world tells us that if you havent got it all sorted there's something wrong.
so thats the recursion, to rely on God fully i have to rely on God fully (to strenghten me to do all those things). which might seem like its impossible (eg to make a computer you have to make a computer) but logic doesnt always work and time and space arent constant and God is all powerful, so ANYTHING is possible.
and if you think of it another way if you relying on God and bit then if you keep at it, you'll be lead to rely on God more and more.
sorry if thats all a bit head pickling but its kinda where im at :) g
it was this time last year that i was in mexico and God was providing from me 100% and i felt really really alive. i was thinking about how to rely on God fully in this bit of the world ....
It seems that vision and focus are very important, if I have a right image of Jesus (ie Him on a cross for me/you not an angry old man throwing lightening bolts or a chilled out hippy on a cloud not caring what happens, (a great sermon from ems duncan pointed this out)) and if I focus on that right image of Jesus spending time in intamacy, desiring spiritual gifts and developing fruits of the spirit, then passion will come and I can be a living sacrifice 100% of the time, and I can keep fighting to love people and give God the glory for EVERTHING. But the thing is to do this i need to Rely on God's strength and not just say things are fine cause this world tells us that if you havent got it all sorted there's something wrong.
so thats the recursion, to rely on God fully i have to rely on God fully (to strenghten me to do all those things). which might seem like its impossible (eg to make a computer you have to make a computer) but logic doesnt always work and time and space arent constant and God is all powerful, so ANYTHING is possible.
and if you think of it another way if you relying on God and bit then if you keep at it, you'll be lead to rely on God more and more.
sorry if thats all a bit head pickling but its kinda where im at :) g
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