Worship Songs about Doubt and Pain
Once a month, our wednesday night youth house group looks at an aspect of culture and reflects on it from a christian worldview. We celebrate it. we engage with it and we critique it. This month we looked at music. Each young person was asked to bring a song and I printed off the lyrics [...]
Bruno Mars and the Cross of Christ
Greg Boyd‘s tweet, “It was God’s love, not his wrath, that needed to be “satisfied” with the death of Jesus. “For God so loved… that he gave…” got me thinking. Recently, I’ve been ranting to my wife about Bruno Mars‘ song ‘Grenade‘. the chorus goes like this: I’d catch a grenade for ya (yeah, yeah, [...]
Everything is Spiritual
My mind is racing with thoughts, questions and I thought the only way to try and make sense of it all was to put down a blog. I don’t normally do these things. It’s not really for anyone else to see (although if you are reading this then it is). It’s more a way for [...]