Come follow me

30Apr08

Arun introduced me to this amazing book The Vision and The Vow  (The Vision and The Vow)
If you haven’t read The Vision yet, read it here: the vision
and you can watch a video presentation here: vision media
I got pretty psyched about it so I have started reading the book (yes I read lots of books at the [...]

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Tags: disciples, Jesus, pete greig, The vision and the vow

You

28Apr08

There’s always something in the way
There’s always something getting through
but it’s not me
it’s You
Sometimes ignorance rings true
but my hope is not in what i know
it’s not in me
it’s in You
it’s all i know
it’s all i know
it’s all i know
I find peace when I’m confused
I find hope when I’m let down
not in me…
in You
I hope to lose myself for good
I hope [...]

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Tags: lyrics, switchfoot

Glorify God by enjoying him

27Apr08

I have just started reading Desiring God by John Piper in which he declares himself a ‘Christian Hedonist’, making some of the more conservative of us reel back in horror. Hedonist? Christian? Noo. Surely those two never go together.
To be honest, if I didn’t know John Piper to be pretty sound and I came across [...]

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Tags: Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Desiring God, hedonism, John Piper, Psalms, Westminster confession

We’re old enough to feed ourselves

27Apr08

Today’s service at Westwood was part of their AGM so the sermon was quite focused on the church. The reading was John 1:14, 16-17. Two points from Peter’s sermon in particular stood out for me:
1. We are called without exception to be followers of Jesus. God is always doing new things therefore we should always [...]

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Tags: Isaiah, John, Westwood

Genesis 22

26Apr08

This is the passage we are looking at in 5.20. 
God tells Abraham to take his only son Isaac and sacrifice him as a burnt offering! Quite extreme huh?
The thing that struck me most was God gives no explanation, and Abraham doesn’t question him, even though this command makes no sense whatsoever. God promised Abraham he would [...]

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Tags: 5.20, abraham, genesis