The Bible is perhaps the most-quoted book in circulation today. Verses crop up in government, on University mottos, and across many social events including baptisms, weddings, and funerals. Aside from spurious quotations in Quentin Tarantino films (*) nearly all of what we snip out of this small library of books consists of nice, positive, heart-warming, […]
We recently had a forum where we discussed how we can do better at reaching older men with Jesus. Here is part 1 of a presentation by David Shipley: It is right to discourage any disconnect between and across age ranges within the CVM network. However, too much conformity denies the uniqueness and diversity of […]
Episode 4 Now Father time marches on And our story’s nearly all done. Saul’s getting bad. Soon he goes mad. From better to worse Like he’s under a curse. Jealous of Dave and his mind’s full of fear. The Philistine Army, again it draws near. He’s full a’ dread. It’s all in his head. He […]
Supposing I were to ask you to list the types of people who will end up in Hell, I am quite sure that amongst the first ones mentioned would be liars, thieves, murderers, idolaters, adulterers, or some very similar terminology in some fairly similar order. (Btw, how often do you stop to consider Hell anyway?) […]
Episode 3 Read 1 Samuel Ch. 17 v. 28-52. Brother Eliab heard Dave’s ideas, But he got real mad, he turned red to the ears. He said, ‘You’se up yourself, you just talk the talk. Yer heart’s all bad and you don’t walk the walk. Yer head’s too big to fit through the door. You […]
The Bible. No matter who you are, if you live in the west you’ve probably read some it, and if you don’t own one you probably did once. Not many people have read all of it, though. I know I haven’t, and I doubt I ever will, for despite years of going to church religiously, […]
“When I was young, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody’s help in any way. But now these days are gone, I’m not so self-assured. Now I find, I’ve changed my mind. And I’ve opened up the door.” help! – Beatles It’s only now as 64 looms on the, not so distant, […]
Episode 2 Read 1 Samuel Ch. 17 v 1-27. Now the Phillistines gathered their forces for war And assembled at Socoh in the land a’ Judah. They all lined up at the top of the heights, Across the valley from the Israelites. Down from the Phils came the number one killer. Goliath of Gath, their […]
Recently, we’ve been looking at what we’ve coined as The Stephen Fry syndrome – the idea of hiding behind the views of people more famous/clever/socially acceptable than yourself. Whatever our worldview, it’s easy to lazily hold up as truth things that the glitterati have said, rather than engage with the questions at hand. Below is […]
I must have rolled over in bed and the pain had woken me. Whichever way I moved the pain was so intense that I fully expected to need to go to hospital, with the added indignity of needing to be carried out of bed by an ambulance crew, with me only wearing a pair of […]
