“To our most bitter opponents we say: ‘Throw us in jail and we will still love you. Bomb our houses and threaten our children and we will still love you. Beat us and leave us half dead and we will still love you. But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. One day we shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.’”

- Dr. King, just before he died.

Would you be able to say this to a person that is attacking you, and threatening your personal safety, or the safety of your family?

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I am currently reading the book, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne. This book handles the topic of the Way. The Way that Jesus came to see us. In this book, Shane takes us on a journey of his life, and how he came to realise that what Jesus asked us to do, He meant.

So often we find ourselves not marking some verses in our Bibles, because these words make us feel uncomfortable, or we simply dismiss them by saying that we can’t apply them in our current social context.

The reason for this, in a big way my opinion, but Shane also says this in his book is that we have made the Gospel safe. We have pushed this great and dangerous book into a little box that makes us feel good about ourselves, and never challenges us to get to a point where we might lose everything, even our lives.

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Today’s post is something that has been stirring within me for quite some time. It will probably aggravate quite a few people, but I feel convicted that I should share it with you guys. If you do not agree, feel free to engage in conversation with me and the community on this in the comments section. This is one of those topics that I wanted to simply ignore, but God has compelled me to share this with you guys as well.

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As I have been reading through the letters of Paul during the last couple of weeks and months, I have come to one realisation, that I have been missing for quite some time.

So often I find myself wanting to share a message that is new and fresh, but as you look at the messages Paul preached as he went along his travels, he only spoke about one message, and that is the story of Jesus. The prophesies leading up to His birth, His life, His death, and most importantly of all, His resurrection.

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“Do not consider anything unclean that the Lord has declared clean”

Acts 10:15

Words from the Spirit to Peter, but are they only to Peter?

So often we tend to declare things unclean, from a religious point of view, without thinking.

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Earlier in my life, I was angry. I was angry at the church, and how they tended to treat people. I wrote about that quite a bit. Over the last couple of years God has worked in me, to get rid of this anger within me. I am no longer angry at the church, however I do still tend to be very critical of the church as an organisation, but God never stops working in us, growing us to be mature members of His body.

This morning I came across this scripture once again, which stirred something within me.

15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Ephesians 4:15-16 (NIV)

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We all know the Jaws movies. Yep, those stories of that man-eating shark, that in a big way paved the way for these types of horror movies. I remember my fears as a kid, after I secretly watched one of these movies, and how I was scared of sharks for quite some time after that. I mean, all sharks are evil, and they will even eat part of your boat to get to you…

Luckily I now know that this is not the truth, and that Jaws was only a story, but does that fact mean that we don’t have a Jaws ‘person’ in our lives?

I doubt it…

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We all have strengths, weaknesses, as well as issues in our lives. This is simply part and parcel to being alive, interacting with people and being who we were created to be.

Sometimes we personally see weaknesses as strengths, and we focus on them, or we see actual strengths as weaknesses and try to suppress them. Issues, well issues are issues. I personally don’t think you can see them as a strength or a weakness, but they are there, and you need to deal with them.

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This is a ad that is currently running here in South Africa. I find it quite funny, and usually laugh at it. However, last night me and my wife was talking about how some people somehow think that the statement of bringing him back after 3 months, is actually the way to do it.

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Sometimes life simply happens, and those times, it feels like everything is out of control, and you simply do not know how you are going to make it through it.

Firstly I need to say sorry for being missing in action last week, but my son ended up in hospital, and that is one of those things life throws your way, than you need to cope with.

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