From the monthly archives:

August 2004

Idolatory or depression (biblical counselling #6)

August 31, 2004

Jollyblogger believes that depression can be sparked by idolatory: “idols begin as desires which may be good, bad or innocuous. But we often raise the bar on desire and call it a need. Once we elevate something to the status of ‘need’ it becomes something on which our well being depends. “
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This weeks Jolly

August 31, 2004

JOLLYBLOGGER: as awarded this week’s Jolly to Ambra Nykola at Nykola.com for her three posts titled ‘Why I am Not a Republican.’ Its nice to read a reasoned article about American politics that doesnt go something like “he sucks, my one is cool so vote for him!”

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Looking for a church?

August 30, 2004

I have now set up a list of newfrontiers churches with webpages over on the Jubilee Church site. I will probably stop highlighting churches over here and do it there instead.

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Addiction- illness, choice or a bit of both? (Biblical counselling #5)

August 30, 2004

Is addiction simply an illness as Doctor in the house feels?
The simple fact is that medical science is rock-solid in conclusion that alcoholism and addiction are well-established disease processes, comprised of genetic, physiologic, and mental illness components. As a quick MEDLINE search will demonstrate, there is a vast amount of medical literature addressing this disease [...]

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Blogger Blogs round up

August 30, 2004

Thought I’d highlight some lesser known blogs over on blogger.com. These days blogger has many of the features beloved of MT users- as a blogger user myself I hope that the blogger blog is taken seriously by all those of you fortunate enough to be able to install MT. The joy of blogger is [...]

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Transatlantic pollitics- loyalty more important than party

August 29, 2004

One gets the feeling that increasingly politics in other nations have an important impact on your own. Michael Howard is the current leader of the Conservative Party (the party that still lies in the shaddow of Margaret Thatcher). He will stand against Blair in our next elections.
Howard has managed to acheive a feat [...]

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My favorite Christian authors – Terry Virgo

August 29, 2004

For more information on Terry Virgo, the leader of newfrontiers follow this link where I have collected a wealth of links from around the web or read my interview with Terry Virgo.
Terry Virgo is a great hero of mine. I have been priviledged enough to meet him, and unlike many of our modern day [...]

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Reformed Blogs

August 29, 2004

Have found a site which aims to be the home for Reformed bloggers- I wonder if they will kick me out for being charismatic?

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Does the Future have a church

August 29, 2004

Terry Virgo is the founder of the group of churches I am thrilled to be a part of. If you are disatisfied with the state of the church today, this is a must-read book. I can’t recommend it enough. Unfortunately it is yet to be published in the USA so if you want it, you [...]

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The ability to change – biblical counseling #4

August 28, 2004

I have already spoken in my earlier posts about the vital need for us to recognise that Christian’s should expect to be able to change. Some types of counselling seems to focus on trying to find explanations for why we are the way we are. This is only ever useful if it is the first [...]

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The Faithfulness of God

August 27, 2004

“This faithfulness of God is of the utmost practical significance to the people of God. It is the ground of their confidence, the foundation of their hope, and the cause of their rejoicing. It saves them from the despair to which their own unfaithfulness might easily lead, gives them courage to carry on in [...]

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Holistic counselling and pastoring (Biblical counselling #3)

August 27, 2004

Once again Jollyblogger and I are playing ‘tag’ with a subject- others are welcome to jump in. I am a great fan of the ‘nouthetic’ teaching that Jollyblogger explains so well.
I think that when people argue as to what degree should we integrate with psychological theories they perhaps sometimes miss an important aspect of people [...]

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The Kingdom of God

August 27, 2004

Over at my Church’s website we have reorganised our sermons. It is now possible to find all our sermons on the Kingdom of God in one place. This series lasted quite a while, and some of the messages were particularly helpful. Do pop over and have a listen or a read.

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