Love it Asbo Jesus!
Archive for the ‘God stuff’ Category
22 Jun
It must be love…
For a long time I have been pondering what it means to love God. Contrary to some obscure what kind of “defective personality test are you” test I took randomly on Facebook (why take such things you may well ask? At least I didn’t publish it!), I am not wooden, but nor am I given [...]
26 Jan
Ortho what?
While checking through my google reader I spotted a question that has stayed with me. Has the church in Australia (in particular that part of the body that would identify itself with the ‘emerging church’ ) strayed too far from orthodoxy in favour of orthopraxis? I think how we answer this question is [...]
20 Jan
The Abbey
Tonight I finished viewing the last installment of a series that recently aired on the ABC – “The Abbey“. For those who missed it, it is a kind of reality tv show set in a Benedictine monastery. It documents the personal and communal journeys of five women with diverse backgrounds, ages and personal stories as [...]
1 Jan
Dogma
Here’s a find for the first day of the new year – thanks to the very soon to be married for the heads up. I like cartoons, and the more insightful (with the odd bit of cynicism) the better. The cartoon below is from “The Ongoing Adventure of ASBO Jesus”.
I like it. [...]
28 Dec
Ho Ho Ho Hum….
Hope you all like the snow traipsing across my screen – I thought I had better do something a little festive here to mark the season! Please don’t misinterpret my title for any scrooge like disdain for Christmas. On the contrary, I think it is a wonderful time of the year. I love the holidays, [...]
22 Nov
loosing and binding
I have been a Christian for a long time. I couldn’t count how many sermons or seminars I have sat through, some with eagerness and many with barely disguisable boredom. I am sure I have heard more than one deal with the subject of “loosing and binding”. Usually to do with spiritual warfare. For those [...]
25 Jun
Dipping into Barth
“In Jesus Christ we are ready to learn to be told what Godhead or the Divine nature is. We are confronted with the revelation of what is and always will be to all other ways of looking and thinking, a mystery, and indeed a mystery which offends. The mystery reveals to us that for [...]
6 Apr
In the Garden
These hands lovingly fashioned the universe, and knit together first man and first woman. Hands that rejoiced in the light of first day now trace the edges of an impenetrable darkness.
God incarnate, Son of Man, on his knees. Terrified. Alone. Through tears the ground is a blur. All [...]
9 Mar
Let the stories begin
Tonight was the first session of the Forge National Summit, Dangerous Stories II. Mike Frost gave a talk, followed by the brooding Sons of Korah and their dramatic musical interpretations of the psalms. Mike described the temptation of Jesus from the perspective of its preparatory role for the extraordinary three years of his messianic mission. [...]
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