cool stuff

also in the music vien Erol Alkan has loads of mixes to be downloaded as podcasts from his site including essential selections and glasto stuff, if you dont know who he is or what eletro is, I challenge you to get one turn up the volume full blast and dance your ass off. (it might take a wee while to get into but stick with it - trust me)

Annie Mac

This is a wee bit of design i did tonight as a tribute to Annie Mac's set on boxing nite, which although is ages ago now was brilliant. She is a radio one dj and you can listen again to her thurs nite show here She blew Jacques Le Cont out of the water that night, and he's a legend.

head dump

Its been a while and a lot of stuff has happened, i have been on and off the rails although i think i am learning things all the time.

I think by definition there is a wildness and passion about us, a inclanation to take risks which presents the opportunity for our greatest achievements and disasters. To kill this off is to kill of a part of who we are and the dead stagnation that leads to is disgusting.

"Love the Lord you God will all your heart and all your soul and all your strength and all your mind".
"David... danced before the LORD with all his might"
The first few chapters of Mark's gospel

At the minute my experience of organised religion makes little room for us to be undignifed, to loose control in God's presence. This can be done one on one with God and that is cool, but a corporate experience is healthy, to be surrounded by a mass of two hundred people all going crazy to intense music is a beautiful.

Basically i think that our current attitude to faith makes no allowance for the full breath of who we are, and as long as we pretend we are logical machines refusing to acknowledge our passion, we can never step into our true destiny in God. Jesus went forty days in the desert the devil tempting him in everyway, but he came out of it fully knowing himself, fully understanding who he was and his identity as God's son, and he performed miracles, exposed the phirasees hipocracy and generally was a legend. Not afraid of what might happen when he hung around prostitutes, or embraced lepers.

How can i say i know the first thing about Jesus if i have never healed anyone, reading the start of mark, its like saying im training to be a footballer and never kicked a ball...

So above is just where im thinking now, but ulimately so far id say my discipleship hasnt really started

silence

got a bit on with exams, courseworks and all that so have been and will continue to be quiet ;)
however still loving...
releveant magazine now with free music videos the only consistently cool christian website in the world?? stick any you know in the commetns, particularly loving the streets being on there..

the stuff that goes on...

The NRA(national rifle association) are scumbags check this artical about how they helped fund an ad that turned public opinion in brazil against a gun ban in their country. I dont understand why people love guns, I was in cadets I have fired guns, it is fun, but it kills ppl. Statistically the most likely ppl you are going to kill if you own a gun is family member. The whole yank issue runs as deep as their nation is old from shooting indians off their land, etc and like if they all want to run around killing each other then go for it, but brazil! feck aff, its an awesome country and their interferance has undoubtedly meant ppl are going to die needlessly, because they are afraid they might loose their rights in america.
but i mean what is that a right to carry a gun? thats not a right, food water and air are rights and at the minute several billion people struggle to get much more than air to breathe and die cause of it and they are running round the world going you all need a gun. seriously
right rant over
apart from that christams has been great it has been a bit derailed but i have once again been feeling the love from my friends in belfast, you guys make it home. the highlight was boxing night hearing Annie Mac totally upstage Jacques le Cont in the spring and airbrake. She was immense, had the whole crowd going crazy and between the two of them we were dancing for over 4hours, love it.