the waiting country

a love theme for the wilderness

Saturday, 30 May 2009

true authority

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Sometimes a single sentence can work so much in a person. I came across this one by Oliver O'Donovan here and feel it worthwhile sharin...

meeting gatsby

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He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, tha...

better advice?

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Reading this made me wonder: when I have been seeing someone in a pastoral counselling situation, have I been more conscious & careful ...

the single-aim sermon

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Over at Between Two Worlds , there is this quote for preachers to mull over (non-preachers views also welcome here, as always...): I have a ...
Saturday, 23 May 2009

the great songs (xxiii) - i believe in you

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This selection was very difficult. In some ways, I think that Can't Get You Out Of My Head is a better song and a more compelling perfo...

when you should take a risk

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You do not evaluate a risk by the probability of success but by the worthiness of the goal. We were willing to fail because the goal we sens...
Thursday, 14 May 2009

the great songs (xxii) - romeo & juliet

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From their album Making Movies this is Dire Straits at their best. Great musicianship, songwriting and, more unusually, singing. And if I ...

the cross in the light of the old testament

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Engaging with contemporary debates about the cross of Jesus, Chris Wright makes this very astute observation (emphasis mine): Please bear wi...

a great album: what are you going to do with your life?

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No doubt The Badger and I will get around to a list of all-time great albums in due course. And this album by Echo And The Bunnymen proba...
Monday, 11 May 2009

canaanites

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Chris Wright has a very fine chapter on the issue of the extermination of the Cannanites in his book The God I Don't Understand . In ch...
Friday, 8 May 2009

the great songs (xxi) - summer of '69

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For some, this is probably all the proof they need that a list like this is principally nostalgic - not because Summer of '69 looms lar...
Thursday, 7 May 2009

the dangers of going digital

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I read a fascinating interview yesterday that Tim Challies did with Doug Groothuis on the subject of his 1997 book, The Soul In Cyberspac...
Tuesday, 5 May 2009

the great songs (xx) - cloudbusting

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I'll happily confess I have very little grasp of what dear Kate Bush is singing about in this song ....but I love it. I love the way it...
Friday, 1 May 2009

making no sense of evil

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We want to know where evil comes from. Why did God allow Satan to tempt Adam and Eve? And where did he come from? How did he become evil? Ch...
Thursday, 30 April 2009

servant sufferers

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In Housegroups this week we were looking at 1 Peter 4 and the various ways in which people who follow Jesus can suffer at the hands of those...

the great songs (xix) - light my fire

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Light My Fire by The Doors just bursts open from the very first note and delivers in spades. For once, I'm not going to comment on the...
Friday, 24 April 2009

the great songs (xviii) - mother

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I realise this is an extremely hard song to listen to, for all sorts of people and for all sorts of reasons. I'm not including it here b...
Monday, 20 April 2009

chris wright: asking 'why?'

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In introducing the section of his book, The God I Don't Understand , that deals with evil and suffering, Chris Wright makes this valuab...
Saturday, 18 April 2009

the great songs (xvii) - the river

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The River was among the first Bruce Springsteen tracks I remember hearing, along with Hungry Heart and Sherry Darling off the same album...
Friday, 17 April 2009

twitter & morality (wsj extract)

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Ever worry that the ever-increasing barrage of status updates from Facebook, Twitter and every other real-time, hey-look-what-I’m-doing and ...
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