tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65807950482798538472011-11-28T00:11:27.089ZAn attempt to discover what it means to follow Jesus in the 21st Century.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788716567494611593noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580795048279853847.post-73884767855014485692011-06-17T23:28:00.000+01:002011-06-17T23:28:05.726+01:002011-06-17T23:28:05.726+01:00

The regular readers of this site will be aware that my wife has been pregnant for the last nine months or so... This is no longer the case. My second daughter was born 16 days ago... a fact that makes me very happy. She has been in special care until just a couple of days ago, so frankly I have been too busy to write anything for this site. The posts that have been popping up here were written

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Thats right, friends, its no sleazy sales pitch to get you to buy something, its a genuine free book for anyone that wants one. The only way to make it free is to have it in digital format. I will be making it available as an audio book and as an ebook, you can have it in one or both formats. You can even share it with others, the only copyright requirement is that you do not alter it in any

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This short video of some of the highlights of a teaching that Dr John Piper delivered to a conference was nearly sufficient for me to quit preaching and teaching forever. I have blogged about this video before. I said it then and I say it now - I cannot do better than this. In light of this, I saw myself as insignificant and I crumbled. It took me a long time to over come that. I have watched

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20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.   But for Adam no suitable helper was found. I love this verse, it always makes me chuckle. It is for this reason that I include it today. We pick up the creation narrative as Adam takes ownership and responsibility over the animals that God created. He names each of them and in so doing

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It may be obvious to some of you by now, but the Bite Size Bible posting is slowly working its way through the bible. We are going into week three of the new posting regime, and we are now onto Genesis Chapter 2, which is pretty good going I think. We are in no rush to get to the end (since then we will need to think of a new posting theme for the blog!) so will work our way through verse by

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This is essetially the Easter message from Greg Boyd and his Woodland Hills church. As always I am posting a message from Greg because I am a huge fan of his. His ministry and teaching has profoundly affected me. But I do not agree with everything that he says. I am opening up to you this teaching to start a discussion. I dont mind what the discussion is, so long as its a clean fight and we all

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You dont need to be ultra observant to see that there have been several changes to this site over the last week or so. This has been due to some technical issues I was having (read - I made mistakes) and I felt that if I made some changes to the site design that these would be less likely to happen in the future. Personally I like this design more. Its more simple... and I like that. You will

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By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. so i immediatly know that just by quoting that verse i will have maybe two thirds of you guys attention atraight away. Why? Because for a big chunk of

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You may have heard me say before, but since I do not think that anyone has a complete grasp of God or the gospel message (especially not me), I do not agree completely with any one preacher or teacher. I disagree with everyone on some aspects of what they say or believe or hold to. But that doesn't make what they say unimportant to me. I love listening to good preaching and teaching, even though

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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” I once heard the one time Bishop of Durham say that the trouble with theology is that if you don't explain everything that you believe every time you explain anything

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if you were to plot the development of The Jesus Insurrection on a graph (and i am not saying that i have done this...) you would end up with a J curve. In other words we started off very slowly but everything seems to have escalated as time has went on. It seems like only yesterday that i wrote the first post for this site. the fledgling ministry that you see before you has been years in

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John Piper is probably my favourite preacher alive today, and an incredible example of what a life well lived can look like and achieve. This is one of my very favourite clips from YouTube. I wonder what you all think about it... answers on the blog please!

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27 So God created mankind in his own image,   in the image of God he created them;   male and female he created them. Having sat in many theological class rooms, and having been taught by a large number of very different Christian teachers, one of the funniest things I have noticed is how they use opposing language to make equally valid theological points.  I remember a teacher asking my

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What did God hope to achieve with Jesus? What was Jesus really like, and what impact does this have for us today? The teaching series, 'Jesus Rocks' aims to explore these questions and more in an attempt to shed light on what Christianity is actually all about. Part three focuses on the garden of Gethsemane narrative found in Luke 22. I think that the reason that I am so enthusiastic

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So I have to admit, that despite passing that mental dude from America off as a lunatic, I watched the time quite closely as 'the rapture' drew near. I didn't believe it would happen on the 21st of May 2011, but I just wanted to make sure.... But I have to admit that for a moment I thought it had.... let me explain.... I check the traffic to this site every day. Its sad I know, but I like

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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. The bible starts exactly as we should. The opening passage of the first book of the bible introduce us to the main character - that would be God! Not only is He the main character, He is the

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Let me set out my position straight away, I love this teaching. I have posted about it previously. This is one of the major teachings that has helped me in a time of great need. Normally, I would want to post up some questions or discussion points around the teachings... but I really just want Mark Driscoll, from Mars Hill Church in Seattle, to do the talking for me.  How do you feel about

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it was about seven or eight months ago that my daughter threw her first proper tantrum. I cant remember what it was about, probably us wanting her to eat carrots or something, but it was a total shock to us. Up until then our little Rebecca had been perfectly behaved. We had seen other children go nuts in supermarkets and things and had secretly been so proud that our little angel was not like

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As you will no doubt have noticed, The Jesus Insurrection is back! Let me tell you that  we are back to stay!  Thus far, the posting has been been regular, but... gappy... well no more! The podcast updates on Sunday (for the hyper religious, please rest assured that this is automated and all set up in advance! some people can be such legalists!). This will continue. But rather than having

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What did God hope to achieve with Jesus? What was Jesus really like, and what impact does this have for us today? The teaching series, 'Jesus Rocks' aims to explore these questions and more in an attempt to shed light on what Christianity is actually all about. Part two focuses on the simple phrase "Jesus wept" John 11:35 It occurs to me, after some study into the preparation of this

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What did God hope to achieve with Jesus? What was Jesus really like, and what impact does this have for us today? The teaching series, 'Jesus Rocks' aims to explore these questions and more in an attempt to shed light on what Christianity is actually all about. Part one focuses on the cryptic phrase " The Son is the image of the invisible God" Col 1:15a I always love the start of a

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A while ago i posted on Twitter something to the effect of "Any Christians wanna change the world?". To me, this was a no brainer. I knew that i had a number of followers on Twitter who regularly Tweeted about Jesus and their faith/religion. I figured i would get rousing support for such a call within the  Christian (Twitter) community.  What followed was not what i expected. I stepped on

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I dont know if it has been the Easter festivities or some other stimulus, but i have found myself thinking a lot about Jesus. Now, i know what you are thinking - you thinking that as a good little Christian i should be thinking about Jesus all the time... and you are right. But i mean that recently i have been really focusing on the life and purpose of Jesus. I have been thinking about Jesus,

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The more astute amongst you will have noticed some changes to the site recently.... and then some changes back... and then some more changes. This has been to accommodate the next stage in our multimedia campaign: Video teaching! The blog provides written versions of the teachings, the podcast provides an audio version that can be easily downloaded onto computers or smart phones, but video will

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Can you smell the Resurrection in the air? Thats right! Its Easter time, and to celebrate i wanted to do something special. So as of today you can now subscribe to The Jesus Insurrection via email and iTunes. Our podcast has now launched! At this point it is too new to be in the iTunes library, so to subscribe you will need to type in the feed address into iTunes ( see the end of the article for

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