me heads wrecked
feeling a bit stressed out at the minute, just got one of those 10 things to do at any second feelings coupled with a the thing i am doing inst really important...
need to sleep a bit too, i cant believe i have totally destroyed the peacful chilled existence i once had in dublin, it was so nice....
saw a dutch film last night at the Jameson International film festival here in dublin, it was good, quite subtle and complex and in danish so the subtitles required a lot of attention ....
"when the chips are down.. eat rice"
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Monday, February 14, 2005
the underground is breaking through,
the church i go to in dublin(core) is cool, and has some very talented worship leaders/ musicans, i often feel totally priveledged just to be there. But i suppose sometimes I like to say, this is a "worship church" so the teaching isnt so good and this is a "preaching church" where the worship is dry but the word is always sport on.
and i had once or twice slated the teach at this church... but yesterday, hold on till your seatbelts cause you are in for a ride.. the fill in leader and then the worship leader in the evening rocked the joint... i will post links to the mp3s of what they said when they get them online but this was serious... radical calls to discipleship uncomfortable words to make me squirm and feel uneasy... briefly the challenge was not to be a "vampire christian":
"ill take a little of you blood jesus, but i dont want to be your student, dont want to learn your character, just leave me alone and ill see you in heave"
is this who we are? is eterinty with someone we didnt really want to spend much time with what we want?
but a disciple:
"someone who is learning from Jesus, how Jesus would be living your life, if He was in your shoes" not quite the exact quote but i think its the vibe.
and just to add to the head wreckin beauty of this
"The Glory of God is man fully alive, the life of man is the vision of God" St Irenaeus of Lyons (quoted by pete grieg in the vision and the vow)
the church i go to in dublin(core) is cool, and has some very talented worship leaders/ musicans, i often feel totally priveledged just to be there. But i suppose sometimes I like to say, this is a "worship church" so the teaching isnt so good and this is a "preaching church" where the worship is dry but the word is always sport on.
and i had once or twice slated the teach at this church... but yesterday, hold on till your seatbelts cause you are in for a ride.. the fill in leader and then the worship leader in the evening rocked the joint... i will post links to the mp3s of what they said when they get them online but this was serious... radical calls to discipleship uncomfortable words to make me squirm and feel uneasy... briefly the challenge was not to be a "vampire christian":
"ill take a little of you blood jesus, but i dont want to be your student, dont want to learn your character, just leave me alone and ill see you in heave"
is this who we are? is eterinty with someone we didnt really want to spend much time with what we want?
but a disciple:
"someone who is learning from Jesus, how Jesus would be living your life, if He was in your shoes" not quite the exact quote but i think its the vibe.
and just to add to the head wreckin beauty of this
"The Glory of God is man fully alive, the life of man is the vision of God" St Irenaeus of Lyons (quoted by pete grieg in the vision and the vow)
Thursday, February 10, 2005
lets push things forward,
since last post i have been to southampton, seen a whole load of people I love, got accepted to lead a habitat team to... somewhere and eventually finnished the 24-7 Miami Team blog (please link it)
Brett the canadian legend has also moved into my house, so its all a bit hectic
anyway some photos from weekend will be up sooner or later...
peace g
since last post i have been to southampton, seen a whole load of people I love, got accepted to lead a habitat team to... somewhere and eventually finnished the 24-7 Miami Team blog (please link it)
Brett the canadian legend has also moved into my house, so its all a bit hectic
anyway some photos from weekend will be up sooner or later...
peace g
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
grandma's underground....
went to training tonight to volunteer with Grandma's Ireland, which provides simple practical care and babbysitting for families dealing with aids.
This nights training stuck me in a differnt couple of ways, i am gonna rant about each one cause i dont want to forget my current emotions or what God has been saying.
1. There are 6000 people diagnosed hiv positive every day, 60 million have died so far. but stop thinking third world this is happening in the uk and irelnad. right now there are huge numbers of people living with Hiv, like on the bus, only reason we dont know is because, funnily enough they dont shout about it. Stop thinking gay the biggest growing spreader of the disease is unprotected heterosexual sex. To parapharse the Rev Jesse Jackson, heavily involved in the movement that won black people equal rights, this is our generations challenge, this is our great injustice this is our world war II.
2. Where are Jesus' ppl in this? it was His people abandoned to Him who listened to the whisper and began education for children, built hosiptals when they didnt exist and generally shaped the things in society we take forgranted. How can the ruined church of europe recover from sex scandals and totally loss of relivance to the average person? could it be by loving the people the world wont touch? could it be by returning to the concept that church is listening to God's heart beat and meeting ppl where they are with the Love of Christ?
3. There were about 10 people in the training tonight, there are 30 families on this charities waiting list, a charity which by any statistical assement is working in with less than 1% of the people affected by aids in ireland. where is the army?
but most worrying is that i was the sole male there. Where are the guys? Although you might say that child care comes easier to females, I would be tempted to say there are MANY fatherless familes crying out for a father figure(which there are) BUT instead i ask you where is the equivalent ministry going on that guys do easier? There isnt one!
The simple fact is the guys arent doing anything.
In every church i have ever been to guys walk in the pale shadow of thier sisters, they might preach and lead worship but when it comes to getting hands dirty, getting creative, serving, they are no where to be seen. What sort of a body are we if one half is carrying the other?
WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP.
The God who dreamt up this universe has a destiny for you that is an adventure beyond your wildest dreams with higher hights and lower depths than you will experience outside of Him.
and we miss it, one day at a time, sitting on a sofa scratching.
we dont have to have this dream or big plan, God is waiting to give it to us, all we have to do is listen...
went to training tonight to volunteer with Grandma's Ireland, which provides simple practical care and babbysitting for families dealing with aids.
This nights training stuck me in a differnt couple of ways, i am gonna rant about each one cause i dont want to forget my current emotions or what God has been saying.
1. There are 6000 people diagnosed hiv positive every day, 60 million have died so far. but stop thinking third world this is happening in the uk and irelnad. right now there are huge numbers of people living with Hiv, like on the bus, only reason we dont know is because, funnily enough they dont shout about it. Stop thinking gay the biggest growing spreader of the disease is unprotected heterosexual sex. To parapharse the Rev Jesse Jackson, heavily involved in the movement that won black people equal rights, this is our generations challenge, this is our great injustice this is our world war II.
2. Where are Jesus' ppl in this? it was His people abandoned to Him who listened to the whisper and began education for children, built hosiptals when they didnt exist and generally shaped the things in society we take forgranted. How can the ruined church of europe recover from sex scandals and totally loss of relivance to the average person? could it be by loving the people the world wont touch? could it be by returning to the concept that church is listening to God's heart beat and meeting ppl where they are with the Love of Christ?
3. There were about 10 people in the training tonight, there are 30 families on this charities waiting list, a charity which by any statistical assement is working in with less than 1% of the people affected by aids in ireland. where is the army?
but most worrying is that i was the sole male there. Where are the guys? Although you might say that child care comes easier to females, I would be tempted to say there are MANY fatherless familes crying out for a father figure(which there are) BUT instead i ask you where is the equivalent ministry going on that guys do easier? There isnt one!
The simple fact is the guys arent doing anything.
In every church i have ever been to guys walk in the pale shadow of thier sisters, they might preach and lead worship but when it comes to getting hands dirty, getting creative, serving, they are no where to be seen. What sort of a body are we if one half is carrying the other?
WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP.
The God who dreamt up this universe has a destiny for you that is an adventure beyond your wildest dreams with higher hights and lower depths than you will experience outside of Him.
and we miss it, one day at a time, sitting on a sofa scratching.
we dont have to have this dream or big plan, God is waiting to give it to us, all we have to do is listen...
Sunday, January 30, 2005
nice to see yous
a sort of family friend/cousin, came over with her boyf for a couple of nights there. Laura and Craig, I hadnt seen her in a few years or met him before, but it was really cool we all got on well. They cooked me some great food and I took them for guinness and irish music and then dancing at a tsunami 80's fundraiser which made for an excellent nite. Both very intersting ppl, he had gone through about 7 or 8 careers to find theraputic masage as the job for him, she works as a speech therapist for the health service in england. They were both very open to spiritual chat and we had some cool conversations, i am interested to know more about "reki" (not sure about spelling) but its a therapy where ppl move there hands over you body, about an inch from your skin "tapping into a universal force to channel energy for healing" I often feel the power of the Holy Spirit flowing through me when praying and I definately believe it can heal ppl, but i would not normally associate it with physical healing but i think thats more my lack of faith. So this reki sounds sort similar but then if the power isnt openly being acknowledged as being of God then where is it coming from? i think the traditional point of view is that it would be from darkness, but why would the person get healed by what is in essence a totally destrucitve power, but then it does say that satan can mascarage as light....
any comments?
a sort of family friend/cousin, came over with her boyf for a couple of nights there. Laura and Craig, I hadnt seen her in a few years or met him before, but it was really cool we all got on well. They cooked me some great food and I took them for guinness and irish music and then dancing at a tsunami 80's fundraiser which made for an excellent nite. Both very intersting ppl, he had gone through about 7 or 8 careers to find theraputic masage as the job for him, she works as a speech therapist for the health service in england. They were both very open to spiritual chat and we had some cool conversations, i am interested to know more about "reki" (not sure about spelling) but its a therapy where ppl move there hands over you body, about an inch from your skin "tapping into a universal force to channel energy for healing" I often feel the power of the Holy Spirit flowing through me when praying and I definately believe it can heal ppl, but i would not normally associate it with physical healing but i think thats more my lack of faith. So this reki sounds sort similar but then if the power isnt openly being acknowledged as being of God then where is it coming from? i think the traditional point of view is that it would be from darkness, but why would the person get healed by what is in essence a totally destrucitve power, but then it does say that satan can mascarage as light....
any comments?
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