We really can afford to continue to do nothing about the climate issues that effect our planet.

It really does not matter that there is no ice at the North Pole

I think the big upside is it creates all these great items to put in our parent child stories:

“when I was a young lad they had *ice* on the North Pole, and they had big fish called whales in the ocean”

If you aren’t heading to the Grassroots Festival and still want to get some input from one of the speakers, then head over to Tabor College next Thursday to hear Sally Morganthaler who is described as:

This is important for anyone involved in church leadership.

There has been a massive rethink at Willow Creek of late. Not only that, according to this article , and the presentations (see below), the leadership admit that they have made a mistake in the way they have been doing things.

In response to their existing strategy about getting people more involved in church life, Greg Hawkins states:

Thought it might be good to post on what has been on my reading list of late:-

Ever since the Switchfoot gig, I have had the refrain “this is your life/are you who you want to be?” running through my head.

Time to reflect upon Acts chapter 2:

14Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd:

“Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you;

listen carefully to what I say. 15These men are not drunk, as you suppose.

It’s only nine in the morning! 16No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:


 17” ‘In the last days, God says,
      I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
   Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
      your young men will see visions,
      your old men will dream dreams.  

Hi, In response to a very interesting question raised on a blog my husband reads, whereby the question was asked is there a theology of contraception I offer some thought on the topic through a paper I wrote as part of a Grad Dip in Theology. I have attached it as a PDF.

The paper is written at an academic theological level, and in particular looks at the use of the contraceptive pill vs natural family planning (NFP) methods and how I believe NFP actually has some amazing benefits, joys and satisfaction to bring to us as married couples who also desire to know and glorify God.

I was watching Micah this morning – he had three coasters in his hands and then spent 5 minutes trying to get the fourth from the coffee table. He was quite determined and I was thinking “come on… you have three already”.

That got me thinking.

The pragmatist says the 99% is good enough.

God says No it is not.

He says “I will leave the 99 and go out and search and find the 1. I will pick them up and bring them home. I will do what it takes for that one. I want 100%.”

That is not pragmatic.

It is passionate…

I have often been accused of being overly theoretical and ‘in my head’ – which I think has been with good reason. Over the past few months, a few people around me have been challenging me to be more practical and to implement my thoughts or at least ground them.

Questions such as “give me an example?” and “what does that look like?” are really helpful to move me to that.

But that got me thinking.

I have been spending a fair amount of time of late chewing over the issues of scripture, hermeneutics and authority. Because I don’t want to get anything wrong I wont say much until I have it sorted :)

I’ll update this when I have had a chance to cohere some of my thoughts…

Update:

So the process of my thinking goes:

• The bible is the word of God
• Evangelicalism would say sola scriptura ie Scripture alone
• Further, we often state that the Bible is our authority