It goes against all conventional wisdom – and a whole lot of church planting books – to say that the future of church planting is found not in the cities, but in the suburbs. It goes against all of the planning that many churches and church planters are undertaking to say that the world is […]
Category: Culture
Jesus Is Not the Poster Boy of the Left or Right
I saw this poster recently on Facebook and it has some interesting things to say. Some I would agree with, others I would say are shots in the dark and an attempt to paint Jesus in the image of a modern Western, well-educated, culturally relative liberal. In short, its just another way of creating God […]
A Hollywood Brickbuster
So, all the blockbuster movie talk recently has been about a single man, with nothing intrinsically special about him other than that he was chosen for the task, who is commissioned to build something that will help people escape from a destructive force that is going to end the world as we know it. That’s right […]
In a 110 Per Cent World I gave 0.78%
This morning, Wednesday (“Mittwoch” in German meaning “middle-week”), I did a middling run at a middling pace at a middling time of the day (not too early, not too late). It amounted to 0.78 per cent of my marathon training program distance. 13km out of 1666.2km. No bust-outs, no speed intervals, no tempos, no great distance, just […]
The Bratty Kid Next Door Finally Gets it
There’s something slightly cute, but oh so pitiable about the manner in which the modern Western culture is suddenly “discovering” all kinds of wisdom about how life ought to be run, when it’s been what the Christian tradition has thought all along. It’s a bit like your child when they discover how to do a […]
Hungry Jack’s: Where Kids Are King
Well, let’s get one thing sorted out, Hungry Jack’s in Australia is Burger King in the rest of the world. BK moved to Australia only to find some no-name burger joint in Adelaide (er, Burger King? – Ed) had already secured the name. I like the name Hungry Jack’s, not least of all because there […]
Super Toilet Bowl
So where do you go when your team loses the Super Bowl? Your pre-game favourites team? A 43-8 loss to a first time winner of SB? Why the internet of course, to download some comforting porn. The UK’s The Independent newspaper today reported on the spike in porn downloads in Colorado, in the immediate aftermath […]
My life is full of kudos and awesomeness
Well, it has to be said, I am pretty awesome. Or so the run program Strava tells me every time someone decides to stalk, er, follow me on Strava to see how amazingly awesome I am at running. And then there’s the kudos! Don’t talk to me about the kudos! I get so many of […]
Extreme Jesus
I start with a disclaimer: Actual blog post is in no way related to Extreme Jesus – the movie and its exploration of Team Xtreme, the particularly well-muscled evangelism outfit) We’ve heard it said so often haven’t we? They Like Jesus, But Not the Church (there’s a book title in that surely – behind-the-times Ed). […]
Holidolatry
I knew that my holiday (that’s vacation for US readers – Ed) was running the risk of ruin when my son decided that, rather than sitting outside the cafe Italian style on a balmy Fremantle evening having gourmet pizza, he wanted to be in the Timezone video arcade next door. What started as a small […]