Fascinating reflections from Scot McKnight on Erwin McManus’ book “Soul Cravings”. He boils McManus’ point down to the idea that: “If God is real and you are created by him, your soul already knows it.” - via “The Inner Apologetic - Jesus Creed“ ItR...

I hope that this video compilation of news reports featuring detailing the places Jesus and the Virgin Mary have shown up just in the past year (A cinnamon-bun blot! In some salsa! Fishsticks!) becomes the most-viewed video in the history of the Internet because damn it, it deserves it. Oh Jesus, th...

There’s a fantastic post at “Letters from Kamp Krusty“. Brant Hansen is a Christian radio host in the states, and as such has some fantastic insights on Christian culture. But I think he’s peaked with his latest post: “I know you think I may be exaggerating. I’m n...

Fascinating post at Jesus Creed, with the best bits being mostly in the comments. Scot has posted a short letter: Scot, what are the “everyday heresies” the church embraces and/or espouses? Any insight? Wondering if complacency, consumerism, and the outsourcing of parental responsibility...

Last Monday I knew I faced a week of writing... it was an important though rather daunting job and to my shame I don't motivate myself well when I know I have to spend days in front of my computer.  So I thought... "Hey I tell people they can pray about anything.  I ...

There I said it. It is a stupid word. I cannot stand the word biblical - at least not the way it gets used. As a concept, “biblical” is a pure one. The progression is easy to follow: The foundation of Christianity comes from the revelation of God through the Bible As we travel through li...

Been fairly taken back by the whole bushfire thing, mixed in with the usual busy-ness so it’s been a bit of a rough effort trying to get much else out onto a keyboard. But I’ve been brewing this post for quite a while, so I’m having a go at it. It’s longer than some of my nor...

I had no idea that Revelation Church was so old.  Roger and all the old skool originals don't seem very old to me, so they must have been really young when the seeds of our community were planted here in Chichester.  All last weekend we celebrated the life of the church is many diffe...

I’m back from my beach mini-holiday feeling much better about the world. My time unplugged does mean I’m a little behind the eight ball in sharing this one, (Makeesha is right - lots of us will steal Peter’s words) but I loved Pete Rollins’ words here and thought you should s...

Despite the rampant heat-wave going on here in beautiful Melbourne town, Mark Sayers is still saying intelligent things. So when many young adults hear about the idea of incarnational mission, without realizing it they see it as a way of resolving the social isolation they feel as a follower of Chri...