John’s Radio Spots – now online</h1> <article> <h1>John’s Radio Spots – now online</h1> <p>Blues Preacher Admin — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:43:33 +0000</p> <script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=259097170798594&xfbml=1"></script><p>A great series of Radio Spots broadcast across Melbourne and Australia, now available <a title="Radio Spots" href="http://bluespreacher.org/radio-spots/">online</a>.</p> <p>… <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/uncategorized/johns-radio-spots-now-online/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Being Triune Creatures</h1> <p>Blues Preacher Admin — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:37:26 +0000</p> <p><param name="movie" value="http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/images/preview_video.swf?preview_file=/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/files/previews/V00874.flv&thumb_file=/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/files/thumbs/system_thumbs/V00874.jpg"/></p> <p>… <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/social-commentary/being-triune-creatures/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>The Influence of the Jesus Movement</h1> <p>Blues Preacher Admin — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:33:36 +0000</p> <p><param name="movie" value="http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/images/preview_video.swf?preview_file=/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/files/previews/V00837.flv&thumb_file=/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/files/thumbs/system_thumbs/V00837.jpg"/></p> <p>John Smith chats about the influence of the Jesus Movement with <a title="John Smith - Jesus Movement on 'the work of the people'" href=" http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/index.php?ct=store.details&pid=V00837" target="_blank">The Work of the People</a></p> <p>… <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/social-commentary/the-influence-of-the-jesus-movement/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Secular Symbols of the Gospel</h1> <p>Blues Preacher Admin — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:56:08 +0000</p> <p>Secular Symbols of the Gospel</p> <p></p> <p>… <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/social-commentary/secular-symbols-of-the-gospel-2/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Straight Smith</h1> <p>Blues Preacher Admin — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:33:04 +0000</p> <p><strong>Taken from a printed article – date unknown.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://bluespreacher.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/John-Smith.jpg"></a>If spirituality becomes whether you can wear lipstick or listen to rock music you have absolutised something which is culturally relative and that in itself is the worst sort of worldliness – what an irony.… <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/home-page/straight-smith/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Pondering in the Pool</h1> <p>John Smith — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:50:52 +0000</p> <p>Yesterday was my weekly, post hip replacement rehabilitation hour at the Geelong Hydrotherapy pool. Hard work, but very invigorating. The hip muscles are on the march. Sweated a lot…at least I was very wet when I climbed out. I was the youngest there I think.… <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/social-commentary/pondering-in-the-pool/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>A Radical Message Indeed</h1> <p>John Smith — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:39:58 +0000</p> <p>Certainly the gospel story shatters the dominant culture’s system of lauding wealth & power, as the reviled shepherds and outsider gentile astrologers are embraced at the baby Jesus side. We KNOW that almost all the shepherds were of a poor class working for absentee landlords, often as endentured labour. … <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/christianity/radical-message-indeed/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>What is the reason for the season?</h1> <p>John Smith — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:15:46 +0000</p> <p>I am distressed at the drivel I have heard in the wee hrs of the morning on the ABC, in which the historically ill-informed, badly researched (both Atheist and Christian) talked boldly against or simplistically around the real message of Christmas. … <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/christianity/what-is-the-reason-for-the-season/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Am I a Christian or a Follower of Jesus?</h1> <p>John Smith — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:03:27 +0000</p> <p>I posted a friend with this comment today. It is a shorthand communication for those who see a God I can’t believe in either. J.B.Philipps wrote a book entitled “Your God Is Too Small.” It’s an oldie but a good read. … <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/social-commentary/am-i-a-christian-or-a-follower-of-jesus/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Christmas – Good News for the Poor?</h1> <p>John Smith — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:30:45 +0000</p> <p> </p> <p>‘Good News for the Despised’ – By John Smith, published 24/12/1994 as a saturday reflection (regular weekend column) for the Melbourne Age Newspaper, rewritten & adapted to 2011.</p> <p>WESTERNISED Christmas cards, featuring idealised pastoral scenes, obscure just how disturbing the true message of Christmas is. … <a href="http://bluespreacher.org/christianity/christmas-good-news-for-the-poor/" class="read_more">Read the rest</a></p> </article> </main></body></html>