Worthless pursuits
I’ve been thinking about ‘internet idolatry’ lately and Proverbs 28:19 speaks well to this: Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty. (Proverbs […]
Month: April 2010
The laser-guided Word
I’m generally not enthusiastic about daily devotionals, the idea of someone else’s predigested thoughts on a scripture passage as a substitute for getting it straight from the source doesn’t appeal to me (yes, I do […]
Blog envy
Even if you think blogs are boring, this guy has some good stuff to say about covetousness: Trevin Wax talking about covetousness in blogging at the 2010 Band of Bloggers meeting at the T4G conference. […]
Is Jesus interesting enough?
Jared Wilson at Band of Bloggers The Band of Bloggers is a group of Christian folks who write blogs and get together for a workshop every second year at the Together for the Gospel conferences. Jared Wilson comments in this short video […]
Are we a fruitless vine?
Yesterday morning I read Jeremiah 8:8-13, which describes how the teachers of Judah had twisted and distorted God’s word to serve their own purposes. In Jeremiah 8:13 God finds no fruit on His vine (Israel) […]
Real faith, terrifyingly fragile
Sermon delivered on Sunday 18 April, 2010 The book of Romans was written to a church comprising both Gentile and Jewish believers. In the opening chapters of this book Paul addresses these two groups in […]
God as a jam baron
Perhaps it was the raspberry jam on my toast that caused Jeremiah 6:20 to stick with me this morning. While waiting for my toast to pop I had glanced at the jar of Woolworths jam […]
100 iPod free days
I made a resolution yesterday. I was considering how I use my iPod to fill in odd snippets of time such as waiting for the bus, walking the dogs or doing odd jobs around home, and realized how little time I leave without […]
Forced to think by lack of a little rubber thingy
I took the dogs for a walk this afternoon, anticipating listening to my iPod while puffing up Signal Hill. However, when I pulled said device from my pocket it was missing one of the little rubber things that make the ‘in-ear’ earbuds fit […]
