This first session by James Emery White was one of the more academic/philosophical sessions to establish some thinking and foundations of the culture we live in. If you’re not wired as the big thinking/philisophical type I’d still recommend you skim it as there’s good stuff there, but you’ll probably enjoy some of the other sessions [...]
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I love it when church isn’t ‘churchy’ – and especially when people encounter Jesus, are added to the church and start growing in him. I dream of churches where imperfect, desperate people gather to worship a perfect God and are gradually changed to be more like him. Don’t get me wrong, I love church people. [...]
No, I’m not talking about gold crosses, smells, bells, or icons of saints. I’m taking about the idolatry that is “Any time we take a GOOD thing and make it a GOD thing that’s a BAD thing”. I was listening to a good message this morning by Mark Driscoll on Idolatry. He was speaking to [...]
There’s been much talk in recent times about community. In a world seeking to define what community really is, and a sense that something has been lost in the modern individualized and bust western culture. In the world of modern technology, from chat rooms, forums, social networking sites and the blogosphere which have all created [...]
Here’s one of my favourite performances (KT Tunstall playing on Jools Holland’s show): A couple of thoughts: You can get great results with less than you’d think – as long as you’re willing to think outside the box Most of the great musicians are outside the church and it’s about time the church started figuring out how to reach [...]
