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On the way home from a conference in 1989, Don Piper, a baptist minister was killed outright when a truck ran over his Ford Escort.  Medical personnel on the scene confirmed him dead.  90 minutes later, while another minister was praying and singing over him, he came back to life.  The book “90 minutes […]

If the bible is not an instruction manual for life, neither is it the sum total of God’s word. As Dallas Willard writes in Hearing God,
‘…the word is much greater than the bible, though inclusive of it. The Bible is the word of God in its unique written form. But the bible is not Jesus […]

I read “Velvet Elvis” by Rob Bell on holiday and I really agreed with this:
And while I’m at it, let’s make a group decision to drop once and for all the Bible-as-owner’s-manual metaphor.  It’s terrible.  It really is.  When was the last time you read the owner’s manual for your toaster?  Do you find it […]

I was thinking about the mathematical challenge of the Trinity today (as you do).  Seemingly 1+1+1=1 in the mathematics of the Godhead.  Then it occurred to me that this is exactly right in the case of orthogonal vectors.  That is:
If you think of 3 axes, x,y and z and three vectors of length (or […]

The world began not in chaos but in the creative purposes of God.  It’s conclusion will also not be in chaos but in the fullfillment and accomplishment of those same purposes.  I think I may have given away my copy of “the story we find ourselves in” by Brian McLaren but I remember a bit there […]

As “church” is a community of friends who all do fun stuff together, it has come to my attention that we do actually need to do some fun stuff, so to add to our one event we have planned, I propose another:
Anyone want to see Kokolo at the Jazz Cafe in Camden on Saturday 4th […]