Constant tumbling streams

Kashmir by elementary kids…Music teachers, take note!

I haven’t linked to Nate Claiborne in awhile, but his music blog for this Monday delighted me. It’s a video of a group of children aged 7-12 years playing a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir almost exclusively on percussion instruments such as xylophones and glockenspiels.More music teachers should do

this!

Why There Is No British Joel Osteen

I found this comment very accurate and succinct concerning the difference in culture here in the ‘states (especially Texas) and in the UK/back home in Australia:

Posted October 15, 2012 3:00pm EDT by Nate Claiborne

Somebody asked me recently whether Osteen and Hinn were big in the UK. My answer was simple: no, not at all, nothing like they are here in the USA. Why is that? came the follow-up, to…

Prayer http://wp.me/s4g8vw-prayer

“Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, its plea- sures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your

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Chris Horst, one of the authors of Mission Drift, has some good thought in his Monthly Musings this month, about how challenges, and struggling/working to overcome them, are important to our growth and development. Isn’t this also how God trains, teaches, disciplines us?

Or 1/2 Chronicles, or Daniel, as a book?

I know we can fairly easily get ahold of booklet editions of the Gospel of John by itself, and Mark, but I’ve always wanted this for other books and letters. Without all the verse and chapter numbers and notes everywhere. I sometimes very much desire to read passages/books as they would have been read by, if not bythose who originally read them (scrolls…

Found this pleasent surprise in my inbox this morning: christianaudio.com are giving away the mp3 audiobook of Francis and Lisa Chan’s book You and Me Forever: Marriage in the Light of Eternity. All they ask is an email address and signup to their newsletter. Horray for free resources

Dear Post-Evangelicals: Here goes, an update, of varyong sorts.

Here is a post from Red Letter Christians that I’ve been mulling on for a little. I don’t know if I can claim to come from “Evangelical” circles the way people talk about the term here in the states, but I very much resonate with the pull to leave, if not the mainstream church, then many of its expressions, practices “laws” behind. I’m looking towards more of a lifestyle and community than a…

Reblog – Rage Against the Minivan: The inconvenient truth about your Halloween chocolate and forced child labor

I haven’t been writing lately, more about that another time…but I came across this article by Kristen over at Rage Against the Minivan about child labour, slavery and chocolate:

Rage Against the Minivan – The inconvenient truth about your Halloween chocolate and forced child labor

Now, frankly, I have no idea where to start in actively responding to this issue, but ceasing or curtailing…

I’m (still) making, or wading, my way through Shane Claiborne’s The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, and it’s very paradigm challenging, dven when you read it over many months.

Searching for one of the resources he mentions in the book, I came across this interview:

Shane Claiborne – Fundamentalism http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSlLGq7LbWw

I think he makes some rather…

Paul and Titus: A model of Transformation

David:

“In light of the book of Galatians, where for to many, it would seem to indicate that works are not of great value for the spiritual life. That by faith and by Grace alone are we enabled to live a Godly life.”

Good thoughts here. It seems to me that, although not the earner or qualifier for salvation, good works are the fruit of said salvation. The Godly life that Jesse and Paul refer too is

I never knew how much Jesus’ last days, death, and resurrection parralleled the Jewish Passover celebration:

Meeting Jesus at an Old Testament Feast by John R. Sittema | Reformed Theology Articles at Ligonier.org (more…)

Links of the week April 27-May 3

  And it’s time for another Weekly Link Roundup: My Immortal – Lindsey Stirling I linked to this artist earlier in the week, but I thought I’d share some move love. For those of you who love intricate string work, rock violins, The Phantom of the Opera, Nightwish, Evanescence, The Red Paintings…this is a girl we might want to keep an eye on. I wouldn’t mind getting ahold of her album at some point.…