Browsing the archives for the God category

It’s Awkward

The hilarious Autocomplete Me finds autocomplete suggestions which Google offers which are a bit odd. But they can sometimes be deep.
This sums up where I’m at with Jesus at the moment:

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A Fractured And Strained Something

A friend asked me recently how I was doing with “the big JC?” I replied that I didn’t think he was very big at the moment!
He went on to ask me whether I still considered myself a Christian. My answer was that it depended how you defined what a Christian is.
If you’re definition is that [...]

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Digital Spirituality?

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Christianity and the Digital Space symposium in Durham through my work on ChurchMCR.
One of the “conversation strands” I went to was about spirituality and the digital space and the conversation helped me crystalise some things have struck me over the last couple of years about how many [...]

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3 Joys

A couple of weekends ago we were at a friends wedding at a Manor House in the Countryside which was quite overwhelming, especially since he and his bride had paid for us to stay there over the weekend.The Wedding took place on the Saturday and I welled up and almost cried at 3 points during [...]

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Junebug

A couple of weeks ago I was getting very angry. Not about anything in particular, just in general. Small things which annoyed me would send me into a rage and I didn’t know why and found it hard to control myself. I swore and smacked a cupboard door at one point over fumbling with a [...]

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God Explodes

I recently blogged about Job and his suffering and how he chose to still love and honour God throughout. I was inspired by the book Where Is God When It Hurts to realise that Job didn’t deserve the suffering he endured and that God does not punish people with suffering.
Further on in the book, Philip [...]

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The Pain Blame Game

I have asked many times why Amy died. I’m not asking how she died, her stillbirth was one of the 50% that are unexplained. I want to know why.
Mary-Lou particularly has battled with the idea that Amy died because of something she did or didn’t do. No matter how much doctors, midwives and friends reassure [...]

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Spiritual Pain

I am currently reading Philip Yancey’s book “Where Is God When It Hurts“. I had to buy it after asking my friends if anyone had a copy. I was fairly suprised that no-one had the book, but it’s probably quite telling about Western Evangelical Christianity.
I’m definitely finding the book interesting but so far it has [...]

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