September 2009

So many times this week, as I have been doing my readings in the 90 day Bible and having conversations with others about the passages I have been reminded of the perspective I shared on Sunday from Brian Maclarens book “ A Search for What is Real.” In case you missed them I thought I would share some of the quotations again. Its rather long but well worth the time . . . . I have a confession to make: I have often wondered about the Bible, as I have about the church: "God, couldn't you have done better than this?" If God were trying to give ...

Sometimes the subject of sharing your faith can be so uncomfortable can’t it? If you are anything like me thinking about it just brings back memories of missed opportunities. I recall times I have made excuses or simply just been too scared. The easy answer is to try not to think about it too often but easy answers are rarely the right ones! Recently however I have been reading a book which has been a real encouragement on the subject. (If you are part of New Life you have heard me quote it from the pulpit a number of times in the past few ...

I am sure most of us have heard at some time or another that quote from Socrates “ “The unexamined life is not worth living” It would seem that the writer to the Hebrews was sensing the same danger when he wrote “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away”. Hebrews 2:1. The challenge there is to live an examined life, an intentional life, as we have examined this idea over the past few weeks at New Life we have seen that a good way of training ourselves to be intentional is to make a ...