deep thoughts

was readin a bit of "mere Christianity" by CS Lewis a bit about the personality of God and the phrase "God is Love" The Father and Son are in a constantly moving developing loving relationship like a wild beautiful dance and the Spirit is the spirit of this love, and that is what is inside us as Christians!! and all we have to do is chill submit and let the Spirit transform us. it might not be much written down by in my head its very exciting.



i always thought of God and Jesus as fixed and kind of sparate in heaven, umoving, but this idea of thier reality is amazing, and it makes sense cause think of two people who love each other passionately, (can be parental love, friendship love or man woman love) they dont just sit there they are always chasing after a deeper relationship changing moving sweeping things up along the way.



it also makes be think on Neo and Trintiy in the new Matrix they are totally dependant on the love they share each of them draws strenght from their love and will do anything for it, although it is expressed in a particularly sexual way, it appear to have echo's of Jesus and God's relationship,
particularly, when they arrive back to Zion, they come out of a lift and Neo stops to heal the sick and basically minister to the people who await him, later when he sees trintiy again,
Trinity - "They need you Neo"

Neo- "I need you Trinity"

a guide to buying all things fairtrade from oxfam great please pray that i can sort out the cu clothing to be proper fairtrade, thanks

alright the world
sorry about the lack of posts,
im really tired, tried that audio blog thing but seems to be for american numbers only :( this week was my "revision" week to my shame i havnt started, it was very busy did some photography of a charity ball (the photo is of a few of my friends from halls)
since then claire from raliegh dropped in for a day or so after missing a boat at portsmouth, then i saw the matrix and today i got rae my staff discount at jessops a lovley second hand nikon FE camera for her birthday fully manual beautiful craftsman ship. which makes me look forward to the summer and getting dads old camera out for some good old photography, bring it on, but for now i can hear my bed call my name...

The policeman got out of his car and the lad who was stopped for speeding rolled down his window. "I've been waiting for you all day," the policeman said.

The lad replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could." When the policeman finally stopped laughing, he sent the lad on his way without a ticket.
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A lorry driver was driving along. A sign comes up that reads "low bridge ahead." Before he knows it the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up. The policeman gets out of his car and walks around to the lorry driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, "Got stuck?"

The lorry driver says, "No mate, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of petrol."

here i the bit i mean, nehemiah 13v15 >
15During those days, while back in Judah, I also noticed that people treaded wine presses, brought in sacks of grain, and loaded up their donkeys on the Sabbath. They brought wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of stuff to sell on the Sabbath. So I spoke up and warned them about selling food on that day. 16Tyrians living there brought in fish and whatever else, selling it to Judeans--in Jerusalem, mind you!-on the Sabbath.
17I confronted the leaders of Judah: "What's going on here? This evil! Profaning the Sabbath! 18Isn't this exactly what your ancestors did? And because of it didn't God bring down on us and this city all this misery? And here you are adding to it--accumulating more wrath on Jerusalem by profaning the Sabbath."
19As the gates of Jerusalem were darkened by the shadows of the approaching Sabbath, I ordered the doors shut and not to be opened until the Sabbath was over. I placed some of my servants at the gates to make sure that nothing to be sold would get in on the Sabbath day.
20Traders and dealers in various goods camped outside the gates once or twice. 21But I took them to task. I said, "You have no business camping out here by the wall. If I find you here again, I'll use force to drive you off."
And that did it; they didn't come back on the Sabbath.
22Then I directed the Levites to ceremonially cleanse themselves and take over as guards at the gates to keep the sanctity of the Sabbath day.
Remember me also for this, my God. Treat me with mercy according to your great and steadfast love.

shopping on a sunday


i have been just readin a bit in Nehemiah 13 when he(nehemaih) locks the gates and threatens traders with force because on a sunday non-jews are bringing in food and other stuff to sell. (Nehemiah had just rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and is pretty cool, he have everyone from the priests to the pig farmers building along side on another. he was kinda the leader of the God's ppl at the time)
anyway it struck me that the arugement for shopping on a sunday, of "its different now" seems to be contradicted by this passage.
I dont know exactly what that means, it is handy being able to get milk on a sunday when u run out, and i think that a legalistic stand on no sunday shopping, is maybe a waste of energy that could be spent loving people where they are ... but maybe we have forgotten the concept of sunday as being a whole day for celebration and chilling with Jesus, and made it for church and coursework?

JESUS CHRIST FREESTYLE...




WOW last night was quite a big one. One of those nights where if a friend came with you they probably would have run away screaming, but they would know, that something HAPPENS at church.

This couple came to lead, it was a change from the plan of having a cell(small house group bit of church) feedback night. Thats one of the good things, having flexible programme.

Anyway they were cool and lead worship with some songs we know and some they have written themselves, one great one about feeling thirsty in an ocean of love (which were really cool and properly published) They the guy Mark or Marcus or something, starts saying that his wife is a "wobbler" and that if she kicks off it has nothing to do with him! he was joking but i got on of those,

"and the plot thickened"

feelings. So she starts taking about feeling dry in the spiritual sense and that everywhere feels dry, since the "boom" that God had droping in 1994-5 starting in Tronto. This was obviously the tronto blessing they were talkiing about, I dont really know much about it but i knew it was really crazy..

anyway She says that God has been saying that he is going to break the final hurdle of control and that church is nt going to be tidy, resoviors of living water, but that we are goin to burst out into the desert and flow into every nook and cranny, and to do this we needed to "take a drink" of the Holy Spirit. As she goes on people in the congregation start reacting, not sayin "Amen" but calling out in really loud voices not really words but groans and some people leave, and then the speaker starts going a bit funny seems to be a bit drunk, and her husband says "oh there she goes that was 20 minutes you kept it together"
And then it all kicks off people falling over laughing, making crazy noises and stuff, but it all just seemed very funny...



And if this had been september i probably would have run away, but I just felt so sure so strong that is was God and His spirit within me, helped me to cope. And the woman in her state was saying its all getting messy and we got rid of all the chairs (the church meets in a school hall so the chairs arent fixed) and She's saying "Whos thirsty and starts throwing a bottle of water round, clearly for a laugh but then we all come up in lines to be prayed for, and a woman Joy is helping her pray but she keeps falling over still but manages to keep it together to pray for everyone,



It felt really good when the spirit came during her prayer not fallig over but she said "fresh realease" which is kinda what i have been wanting for a while, and some of my friends quivered a bit and one Michelle was just so full of energy she wanted to go running and was jumping around.



and that bit in acts 2 v13 "Some, however, made fun of them and said, "They have had too much wine" made sense cause walking into that you would have sworn everyone had been drinking.



and what are the conclusions, i dont know? you tell me but it was quite radical, and it seemed to bring me closer to the original radical man, Jesus Christ.