Chapter 2: Here is the New There
Rob’s main point in this chapter is to do with heaven. Basically eternity won’t be spent in a giant city with mansions and golden streets that exists somewhere out there somewhere in a galaxy far far away...
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Love Wins Hoopla
If you haven’t heard all about the hoopla surrounding Rob Bell’s latest contribution, Love Wins, then you’ve obviously just returned from a pilgrimage to the South Pole. Did it go well for you?
Personally I’ve lost count of how many times someone has asked me what I thought of the book, and funnily enough, how many times that question has been asked in a nervous whisper. What the heck!?! Since when could we not...
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Personally I’ve lost count of how many times someone has asked me what I thought of the book, and funnily enough, how many times that question has been asked in a nervous whisper. What the heck!?! Since when could we not...
To read the rest of the post please click over to Two Pints Later. This is a new collaborative blog I am contributing to and is where I'll be blogging from here on in.
Thomas & Hannah's Wedding
There are some awesome photo's of Thomas and Hannah's wedding on the blog Magnolia Rouge. Claire is an amazing photographer!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Where are Your Affections?
A central theme of Jonathan Edwards’ writing is the importance of religious ‘affections’; passions that move the will to act.
He writes that the kind of religion that God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless ‘wouldings’ – those weak inclinations that lack convictions – that raise us but a little above indifference. That in nothing is the state of the heart so crucial as in religion and in nothing is lukewarmness so odious. That worldly affections are the spring of worldly actions, covertness leads a person to seek worldly profits, ambition to pursue glory, lust to the pursuit of sensual delights. Religious affections are the spring of religious actions. And that there is never any great achievement by the things of religion without a heart deeply affected. We should be consumed with affections of holy fear, hope, love, holy desire for God, joy, gratitude, compassion and zeal.
What is your heart set on? Wealth, fame, fortune, security, popularity, success, comfort, ease. None are necessarily wrong but neither are they that which should consumer our affections.
Is your day, week, life shaped in the pursuit of God, holy fear, hope, love, joy, compassion and zeal? It’s a great challenge from a father in the faith who was born and lived over 300 years ago.
He writes that the kind of religion that God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless ‘wouldings’ – those weak inclinations that lack convictions – that raise us but a little above indifference. That in nothing is the state of the heart so crucial as in religion and in nothing is lukewarmness so odious. That worldly affections are the spring of worldly actions, covertness leads a person to seek worldly profits, ambition to pursue glory, lust to the pursuit of sensual delights. Religious affections are the spring of religious actions. And that there is never any great achievement by the things of religion without a heart deeply affected. We should be consumed with affections of holy fear, hope, love, holy desire for God, joy, gratitude, compassion and zeal.
What is your heart set on? Wealth, fame, fortune, security, popularity, success, comfort, ease. None are necessarily wrong but neither are they that which should consumer our affections.
Is your day, week, life shaped in the pursuit of God, holy fear, hope, love, joy, compassion and zeal? It’s a great challenge from a father in the faith who was born and lived over 300 years ago.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Scot McKnight - What Difference does Easter Make?
If you have not heard of or read anything by Scot McKnight he is a brilliant New Testament theologian who's material is well worth reading. He has written a stack of books, of which I've read, The Blue Parakeet, Fasting, and One.Life. All were outstanding. I know that his A Community Called Atonement is brilliant as well.
Scot's blog is called Jesus Creed - Exploring the Significance of Jesus and the Orthodox Faith for the 21st Century and is well worth following.
His latest post is on our need to not just have a Good Friday gospel and be Good Friday Christians but rather to have an Easter gospel and be Easter Christians. Have a read here.
Scot's blog is called Jesus Creed - Exploring the Significance of Jesus and the Orthodox Faith for the 21st Century and is well worth following.
His latest post is on our need to not just have a Good Friday gospel and be Good Friday Christians but rather to have an Easter gospel and be Easter Christians. Have a read here.
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