Since my last post I’ve been thinking about this part of one of the paragraphs: CS Lewis talks about us placing God in the dock of a court case, deciding whether we want him or not depending on the given evidence Lewis’ point here is that the Gospel, the “Good News” is no longer “Good [...]
I find myself becoming more and more frustrated at the lack of power in my life, specifically that we have a general task to do (to be Jesus to people – and by the way, isn’t the incarnational vs attractional church debate a little obvious? Surely we need both… And that’s before we start talking [...]
We’ve long thought that popular culture confuses love for infatuation, lust and a feeling. Another strange thought about love is the implication of some kind of attribute that denotes lovable-ness when people talk about “loving the unlovables”. We see all of this both in song lyrics, “love is a feeling”, and though I can’t recall [...]
I’ve just read the biography of Mother Theresa and it is really inspiring. We all review our lives either from time to time or others, constantly, and this is helping me review mine. A westerner’s life seems locked in to building up net worth, (generally through property and a pension), and, if you’re not unlucky [...]
You do not love someone because they are beautiful, you love someone because you are beautiful. Love is an endorsement of the giver not the recipient. I was musing earlier in response to some iffy lyrics in a random song I had heard: “I love you cos you’re beautiful”, etc), when actually in the same [...]
