distinctly askew
Just come across the Explore Together website from Scripture Union. Could be a great resource for missional communities wanting to do multi-generational worship.
Has anyone used it? What are your thoughts about it?
From Fast Company
Yahoo! is slowly buying up sites I love and use. Flickr, Tumblr, Astrid.
Should I be excited, sacred or indifferent.
I suppose its promising that I like what they’ve just done with Flickr.
Blessed is the one whom God corrects;
so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
For he wounds, but he also binds up;
he injures, but his hands also heal.
From six calamities he will rescue you;
in seven no harm will touch you.
In famine he will deliver you from death,
and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,
and need not fear when destruction comes.
You will laugh at destruction and famine,
and need not fear the wild animals…
…We have examined this, and it is true.
So hear it and apply it to yourself.
From Job 5
Job loses everything, seemingly at God’s hands. His friends come to see him and to offer some comfort, this is what one says.
Looks good, even resonates with other parts of the bible (Psalm 94 for example).
But at the end of the book God is angry with the friends. They have “not spoken of me what is right.” Makes me think about St Paul’s famous clanging gongs.
They’re right, but they’re very very wrong.
I love bits of the bible like this, where it just gets a little bit messy, challenging, real..
But bits like this scare me too: Where am I getting it right, but am actually wrong?
Help me God, to know your truth. Help me to handle that truth humbly, gently and carefully. Guide me Holy Spirit. Amen.
(via anglicanintraining)
to you be praise and glory for ever.
As your Spirit moved over the face of the waters
bringing light and life to your creation,
pour out your Spirit on us today
that we may walk as children of light
and by your grace reveal your presence.
The two guards on duty let the mob through without a word – those kind of numbers are their own permission – but they send a runner, quick, to the Chief Priest’s office; and he, looking down from his window, sees a human flood pouring out suddenly from the entrypoint to fill the flagstones of the…
It looks like Francis Spufford is blogging excerpts from his book throughout Holy Week retelling the story of Jesus last few days before death. He writes a powerful version of the ancient story.
24-7 Prayer are releasing 7 new podcasts throughout the week up to Easter. They are a great way to take time to engage with God and re-enter the Easter story.
This is day 2, it’s excellent! Find out more at www.24-7prayer.com
Into the city they go, Yeshua and the nucleus of twenty or so men and women who have been following him about. The narrow stone streets are packed with visitors who’ve come in from the province for the biggest festival of the year, a festival of death averted, in which the people of the one God…
My wife and I have an under used family news blog. We’ve just put a post on it about what we’re up to once my vicar-school finishes in the summer.
This is a little thought I wrote for Thursday Threads, a devotional email from Threads UK. Its about some things I’ve been thinking through regarding ambition and effort.
