For What it's Worth...

I am Second

Clayton Fopp — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:43:44 +0000

I discovered a new website today – Iamsecond.com From the site: “I am Second is a movement where signficance in life is shared.” The website features a collection of videos featuring well-known people, like former US Presidential Candidate Muck Huckabee, Brian Welch from Korn and The Biggest Loser’s Michelle Aguilar, but also regular people from the cities [...]

Redeemer Church Planting Blog

Clayton Fopp — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:43:15 +0000

If you’re interested in church planting, you’re quite possibly aware that the Church Planting Center at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York has launched a blog. The RCPC Blog, currently labelled as “beta,” is home to reflections from Tim Keller, Scott Sauls and others from the Redeemer staff team as well as members of their church [...]

4 Pastoral Reasons why I won’t be going to hear Brian McLaren.

Clayton Fopp — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:51:59 +0000

My invitation to World Vision’s “An evening with Brian McLaren” arrived in the post today. The nicely recycled-looking brochure didn’t do anything to alleviate my surprise at the partnership between this organisation (of which I happen to be a former employee) and McLaren, the “speaker, thinker and activist.” I think I was at least expecting [...]

Challenges to Faith…

Cameron Munro — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:13:05 +0000

A newspaper columnist wrote: “The average church goer takes a few hours out of the week to experience the sacred … But the rest of the time, he is immersed in a society that no longer acknowledges God as an omniscient and omnipotent force to be loved and worshipped… Today we are too sophisticated for [...]

A Comment from Charles Bridges….

Cameron Munro — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:50:22 +0000

This week as a staff team we were reading a small chapter from Charles Bridges’ book, The Christian Ministry, on “The Fear of Man”. Bridges speaks of the straightforward manner in which we should speak, and how our fear often keeps our mouths closed, or, causes us to disguise our words because of our [...]

A Word from C.H.Spurgeon

Cameron Munro — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:38:24 +0000

“The heir of heaven serves his Lord to simply out of gratitude; he has no salvation to gain, no heaven to lose;… Now, out of love to the God who chose him, and who gave so great a prize for his redemption, he desires to lay out himself entirely to his Master’s service. Oh, you [...]

Crossing Your Will?

Cameron Munro — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:21:46 +0000

Nobody likes having their will crossed. From an early age we learn to react with anger and outrage when someone dares to impose upon us, to prevent us achieving our aims, to deprive us of what we perceive to be our right to self-determination. But this makes for a clash of wills for [...]

Biblical Diagnosis

Cameron Munro — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:12:18 +0000

The Bible should be at the centre of our life. Most of us will say that this is the case. We read it, we sing it, we study it, we hear it taught. The Bible is the foundation of our life in God – but, is it? Do we have a [...]

What Do You Treasure?

Cameron Munro — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:54:01 +0000

What is it that we value the most? We live in a world that puts a value on almost everything in our life, including our life! Donald Whitney challenges us… “Perhaps you would think of something like the Hope Diamond, the Mona Lisa, Michelangelo’s sculpture of David…yet offer any of these to an [...]

Calvin on Prayer [Again]

Cameron Munro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:20:44 +0000

Calvin’s fourth rule on prayer – “We pray in confident hope”. Calvin rightly comments, “Cast down and overcome by true humility, we should be nonetheless encouraged to pray by a sure hope that our prayer will answered” Prayer is essentially linked to faith, and true faith is founded on the sure character of the one in [...]

Calvin on Prayer

Cameron Munro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:29:01 +0000

Calvin’s third rule on prayer – “We yield all confidence in ourselves and humbly plead for pardon”. Simply, we are to ‘depend on no assurance whatever but this alone: that, reckoning [our]selves to be of God, [we] do not despair that he will take care of [us].” We must come, knowing that we deserve nothing but judgment [...]

Will Facebook Catch Up With You?

Clayton Fopp — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:33:31 +0000

I love Facebook. I love Twitter. I love Facebook and Twitter on my iPhone no matter where I am in the world (almost)! But I’m a little worried. To tell you the truth, I’m a lot worried. I’m worried about what’s going to happen to a whole generation of young people when Facebook catches up with them. If [...]

Soul-Winning Made Easy @ Callies Dot Com

Clayton Fopp — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:38:19 +0000

There are some books that just keep popping up around the place. Soul-Winning Made Easy by C S Lovett, published in 1959, is one of them. Every few months I see another reference to it, someone selling it (eBay has multiple copies currently listed), or someone describing it in words like these “This book [...]

“Angels and Demons” and the New York Times

Clayton Fopp — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:22:48 +0000

Once upon a time I subscribed to the New York Times. I don’t any more. I decided I couldn’t justify the getting the Paper of Record posted to me every day! I still use the website a lot and noticed that Ross Douthat has now joined the NY Times team as a contributor. Douthat is [...]

Recession

Cameron Munro — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:07:18 +0000

“AUSTRALIA is marching towards recession while the growth rate is shrinking to a “remarkable” degree, a leading study has found.” [“Australia headed for ‘remarkable’ recession, index shows“, The Australian, April 15.] What is a Christian response to such a comment? Trust in God not money? Do not be afraid, God is in control? Both of these [...]