My wife and I are leaders of a teens small group. This weekend we started a series of evenings with the title “The Almighty Series”. Last night we watched the movie “Evan Almighty”. In the weeks to come we want to explore the theme of the movie, talk about differences between the movie and the story [...]
Archive for January, 2008
The Almighty Series
Posted in church, tagged Bible, Evan Almighty, small group, teens on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is church?
Posted in church, tagged church on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lately I have been thinking and reading a lot about the church. It seems that people can’t quite agree on how to define church.
Now, I don’t want to say that I have all wisdom, so I can come up with the definitive definition. But I thought it would be nice to start a discussion and [...]
Christian myth (5)
Posted in Christian Myths, tagged Abel, Cain, christian myth, Genesis, offering on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the start of the weekend, here’s another christian myth to be unfolded: The offering of Cain and Abel. In our children’s Bibles the way God showed he accepted Abels offering was because the smoke coming from his offering went upwards. On the contrary Cains offering was denied and the way God showed that in that [...]
Bruce Cockburn quote
Posted in Christian Life, Music, tagged Bruce Cockburn, Music, spirituality on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I listened to an interview from Canadian radio-host Drew Marshall with singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s a rather old interview from somewhere in 2004.
Here’s an interesting quote from Mr. Cockburn: “Once you put spirituality in the center of your life, then everything that happens to you impacts on your spiritual journey and vice versa”.
I thought this quote [...]
Ill
Posted in Zonder categorie on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unfortunately I have been ill for more than a week. That’s why I haven’t been posting anything.
Christian myth (4)
Posted in Christian Myths, tagged Adam, christian myth, Eve, fruit, Genesis, sin on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK, here’s quick one, this one will be familiar to most of you:
What did Adam and Eve eat when they committed the first sin ever? (rapapa, rapapa, rapapa).
I bet some of you would say: an apple.
Now let’s look at the actual Biblical text:
“3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field [...]
(too late!) Christmas myth
Posted in Christian Myths, tagged christian myth, christmas, internetmonk on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I stumbled upon a post on one of my favorite weblogs, www.internetmonk.com on the legends/myths surrounding Christmas.
Michael Spencer has written a very complete post on every legend surrounding Christmas. So, even though Christmas is already a week ago, I feel the freedom to link to this post: http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/religion-reporters-do-love-their-christmas-legends/
Please read the post, but don´t hesitate to [...]
