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Showing posts with label bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bible. Show all posts
Sunday, 27 November 2016
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Saturday, 26 September 2015
Thursday, 17 September 2015
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
10 useful links (no. 14) - 000's of fb ads, #twitter data gather, you tube #tools & loads more
Search through 1000s of Facebook Ad Images for publicity inspiration - found via @sethhinz
Table of tested software that can gather data from Twitter without programming knowledge - found via @was3210
live map of cyber attacks - found via mentalfloss
8 overlooked useful you tube tools - found via free technology for teachers
35 resources for nonprofit marketers - found via @sethhinz
list of free stock photo sites - found via #cmschat
50+ google tools tutorial videos - found via free technology for teachers
How to Understand the Bible—complete list of articles - found via bible gateway blog
5 tips for periscoping your church service - found via cybertheologydaily
free bible stories for children - found via @CofEChristeningPrevious 10 Useful Links posts
No.'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Thursday, 29 January 2015
10 useful links (no. 5) - teenagers & online networks, church growth, twitter sentiment #visualisation, bible contradictions, free photos, facebook newsfeed, 100 crucial bible passages, #contemplative practices, wayback machine, christians in education
church growth courses - key insights from 5 diocese - found via @ling_tim on his CoE Adult Education Friday Mailing eepurl.com/ba5DaX
Monday, 26 January 2015
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
10 useful links (no.1) - on advent, group activities, encouraging & unlocking sharing, soft power, baptism prayers, kid bible app
celebrate advent using your camera phone
advent wreath making http://www.buildfaith.
peacemakers manual - which has some group exercises/handouts at the end of each module that maybe useful for other activities - by @iamcaritas
ways of encouraging people to share their time, skills and resources, as well as their money - by Helen Goulder at @nesta_uk
soft power report - by House of Lords
pressed for time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism - 92 minute video with Judy Wajcman, Genevieve Bell (@feraldata) & Anthony Giddens via @LSEsociology
praying at christenings – two ideas to involve the family & friends - by @reverendally
praying at christenings – two ideas to involve the family & friends - by @reverendally
Friday, 29 August 2014
#cranky #beautifulfaith & the city of God @StPaulsForum @CanonOakley @Sarcasticluther
The event was chaired in a beautifully thoughtful way by Canon Mark Oakley and took place inside St. Paul's Cathedral London UK under the great dome.
It was part of the St Paul’s Forum programme of events exploring Christian life, ethics and spirituality.
The handout from the Cathedral and Forum that we were given as we came in had the following brief bio's of Nadia and Sara ....
"Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of the House for All Sinners and All Saints, a mission church in Denver, Colorado. A former stand-up comic and a leading voice in the Emerging Church movement in America, she is also a New York Times bestselling author. Her latest book is Cranky, Beautiful Faith and she blogs at sarcasticlutheran.com
Sara Miles is the Director of Ministry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, and the founder of The Food Pantry. A former reporter, she is the author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion and Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead. Her latest book is City of God: Faith in the Streets."
The event kicked off at 18.30 with an intro by Mark and then Sara and Nadia each talked for about 15 minutes ish each. After that there was a Q&A. The event was filmed and what follows are various phrases I heard that struck me. St Paul's
On coming to faith and pondering it
- I didn't know any christians but I knew I didn't like them
- I realised that the failures of the church are exactly the same as my own failures
- I can't believe the God of the universe is limited to our understanding of the divine
- Liturgy is a gift caretaken by generations before us so we can enjoy it and pass it on
- At the start of some theological training I attended the teacher starting by writing in large letters on a board the word Grace - and he then said - "everything I'm going to tell you comes back to this"
- Holiness now lives inconveniently in human flesh
- God is less petty than we are
- The incarnation means that the spiritual is let loose in messy us
- Lutheranism in 5 points: 1) God's grace is freely given; 2) Nobody climbs a spiritual ladder; 3) we are all a mix of sinner and saint; 4) the bible is not God, its not part of the trinity; 5) the movement is always from God to us
- God's nature is to redeem all
On being an authentic church community
- A real sign of Jesus' presence at communion is when somebody totally inappropriate is at the table
- Act as if that stuff you do on Sundays means something
- If you're doing work for other people rather than with them then that's a business model - an exchange
- The church building will always be to small to hold God - God has left the building
- Discern the difference between tradition and nostalgia
- Give up control and predictability and you'll be amazed what happens
- There's a way to be reverent without being stuffy
- Be a church with people you didn't choose
- You need to be deeply rooted in tradition to innovate
On the Bible
- Protestants got rid of the pope and replaced him with a paper one
- Always keep hearing the love between the lines
And finally .....
- the CofE has approached the subject of women leadership with the engine of a lawnmower and the brakes of a juggernaut
- the secret of the food pantry - you buy a lot of food and give it away - in 15 years we've had 7 meetings
- some people tell me after events like this that my honesty and authenticity are unusual - which must mean that they think that normally church speakers lie to them and pretend to be somebody they aren't - so the church is setting a fairly low bar for me to beat
- volleyball is the sacred meeting place of tall people
- when asked about thoughts on the CofE's future debate on sexuality - "He said - It is finished"
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Friday, 21 February 2014
#interpretation of the #bible - what do u think? - to be clear y not read these 20 statements & then think thru/discuss whether you agree or disagree with them
If you want to prompt a group discussion about the bible - or just an internal one with yourself - then trying reading some of the statements below and thinking and talking though which elements you agree or disagree with - and why
1) Every syllable of the Bible is ‘God’s word’ – literal, objective truth that is as applicable today as it was when it was first penned (Source 1).
2) You’ll often hear people talk about stories from the Bible with a certain rolling of the eyes, as in "Can you believe people still believe this stuff?". That's because the stilted literal style in which they've been told the stories often misses a more relational understanding of the divine (Source 4).
3) It might be best to consign large chunks of the bible to a filing cabinet labelled ‘no longer relevant’(Source 1).
4) The Bible is a collection of books written by fallible human beings and so bears the hallmarks of their times and cultures' limitations and preconceptions - and at the same time - the transformational experience of their encounters with God. (Source 1).
5) The narrative in the bible is sometimes told from the perspective of the poor, the oppressed, the enslaved, the conquered, the occupied, the defeated. When many of us read it we need to be honest that when we read it it's not from the perspective of a Galilean peasant but from that of the Roman in their villa. (Source 2).
6) Through the centuries various texts have been read to justify some of the most inhumane, brutal and repressive episodes in human history (Source 1).
7) Christianity is not about a book, but about a person - Jesus - who is the Word of God made flesh (Source 1).
8) On issues like slavery we may hold a different view than some texts in the bible that appear to support it suggest - but in doing so we need to explore why the bible contains such texts and what we are being taught by their inclusion (Source 1).
9) Our and others inclusion into the family of God‘s people is not dependent on them or us getting our reading of scripture all right (Source 1).
10) As the bible is a collection of texts inspired by God - which has become sacred to us - it is our responsibility to deal honestly and respectfully with it in its entirety, rather than selectively (Source 1).
11) The Bible contains various, sometimes harmonious, sometimes discordant, sometimes even contradictory voices (Source 1).
12) The Bible did not drop out of the sky - someone wrote something down - it was written by real people living in real places at real times - and through them something of the divine is revealed (Source 3).
13) Only as we adopt an open, humble, discursive and transparent approach to interpreting the bible will we be in a strong position to respond with integrity to the moral, social and political issues we and our society face (Source 1).
14) The Bible should be recognised as ‘a library’ representing various literary genres and cultures and so should be read, understood, analysed and acted upon in the context of those genres and cultures (Source 1).
15) What you find in the Bible are stories accurately reflecting the dominant consciousness of the day - often with all the repulsive and primitive barbarism and violence of the age - yet right in amongst and sometimes even within those very same stories you find radically new ideas about freedom, equality, justice, compassion, and love (Source 6).
16) Together the documents of the bible form the account of an ancient, sacred dialogue – a giant conversation – initiated, inspired and guided by God, with and among humanity about God, his creation and our role in it as his partners (Source 1).
17) We honour and respect the insights those in the past have brought to dialogue about the interpretation of the bible and recognise our responsibility to play our part in that dialogue.(Source 1).
18) Some people don't believe stories in the bible literally happened because with modern understanding they believe they can be rationally explained - and so they reject all miraculous elements of all stories. Others believe the bible stories did literally happen but make that the crux of the story and arguments about it - and so miss the point of the story. (Source 5).
19) With the guidance of the Holy Spirit the process of biblical interpretation is the on-going, open-ended, global project of all those who take its text seriously and authoritatively. Therefore to read the Bible as a static record is a serious error. (Source 1).
20) When we disagree over our understanding of the Bible we will continue to extend grace and patience to one another (Source 1).
Source 2 = My Problem With the Bible - post by Brian Zahnd
Source 3 = What is the Bible? - Part 1:Someone Wrote Something - post by Rob Bell
Source 4 = What is the Bible? Part 2: Flood - post by Rob Bell
Source 5 = What is the Bible? Part 4: Fish#2 - post by Rob Bell
Source 6 = What is the Bible? Part 13: Consciousness and Violence - post by Rob Bell
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Thursday, 8 August 2013
Friday, 11 January 2013
Monday, 7 May 2012
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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