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Better.

March 29, 2013, Published by

I dont know how well you know Jesus – perhaps you’ve been a believer for years and never wavered, perhaps you have only just started to wonder more about who He was, maybe this is the first time you have ever heard His name – but I thought that I’d start this blog entry with a fact that you need to know: Jesus is better than you think. I had considered starting with a beautiful allegory for what Christ did for us but actually? I think that it’s more fitting to start with that fact. Jesus surpasses everything you could ever hope,...
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It’s good to talk…

March 23, 2013, Published by

Do you ever get tired of small talk? I remember going to get my haircut when I lived in my home town. Every time, without fail, I would go and the hairdresser and I would have the same round of identikit conversations. I didn’t have much to say and I wasn’t good at small talk so eventually I just changed hairdressers. It seemed the easiest option. I never did go in and tell her though, because I didn’t want to have a conversation that went along the lines of “it’s not you, it’s me”. I never thought, during those conversations, that perhaps...
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Sacred and Profane

March 9, 2013, Published by

You may or may not have heard of David Vetter but you’ve probably heard of his story; he was the boy in the bubble, who lived all but the first eight seconds of his life in a sterile environment to protect him from germs. It’s a tragic story of a boy isolated from the world around him and a bubble that, set up with great intent, came to be a prison. I’ve known some folks like that, so scared of evil around every corner that they run their lives like the boy in the bubble. Their homes run on lock...
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Put on Christ

February 20, 2013, Published by

With Hollywood’s award season in full swing there is one massively popular film from last year that’s largely unrepresented in the nominations; Skyfall, the most recent James Bond film, may not be recognised by the Academy, but it’s still playing in some cinemas four months after it’s release. The franchise is a massive success story and it all started in 1962 with a Scots boxer and actor called Sean Connery. His depiction of Bond in the 1960s defined the character’s personality for that generation and beyond. “Bond, James Bond,” became an instant success. So how did Connery pull it off?...
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Let Down Your Nets

February 8, 2013, Published by

Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of state during the Bush administration, once famously said that there were four types of known. There were known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns; it’s just a complicated say of saying there’s a lot of stuff that we know and a lot of stuff that we don’t know. For God however, there is only one type of known; one of the perks of omniscience is the fact that you know absolutely everything there is to know. It’s baffling to me, then, that I still sometimes find myself thinking about things as though I know...
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