C.S Lewis Quote #4

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Quotes | Leave a comment

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C.S Lewis Quote #3

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Quotes | Leave a comment

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C.S Lewis Quote #2

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Quotes | Leave a comment

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C.S Lewis Quote #1

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Devotional, Quotes | Leave a comment

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Heaven isn’t for adults.

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Devotional | Leave a comment

Heaven is in fact for children. Today at morning prayer we discussed something that I’d been thinking about for a long while. Jesus said…

Unless you become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matthew 18:3)

What does being a child look like if you’re an adult? Read more

The key to John Wesley’s success.

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Church, Devotional, Ethics | Leave a comment

Yesterday at Small Group we started a new series in Galatians. We concentrated on the first 10 verses of Chapter 1:

¹ Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— ² and all the brothers and sisters with me, To the churches in Galatia: ³ Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, ⁴ who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,⁵ to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. ⁶ I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— ⁷ which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! ⁹ As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse! ¹⁰ Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. Read more

The Porn Industry: Victimizing and Terrorizing Our Generation

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Jailer Posted in Current Affairs, Life Issues, Video | Leave a comment

Ten years ago I attended a men’s conference in the Santa Cruz Mountains. One of the speakers, whose name I forget but whose message I never will, got up to talk about his recent addiction to pornography. He detailed how he slid down the slope from a teen-aged casual interest to middle-aged life-swallowing compulsion, eventually becoming withdrawn, despondent and even suicidal before he finally was rescued by God. An audience of about 60 men sat transfixed.

What happened next was what I’ll never forget. Read more

Child Soldiers – Some words don’t belong together: To all the confused over Invisible Children and Kony12, Support WAR CHILD.

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Current Affairs, Life Issues | 2 Comments

So, yesterday we were all bombarded with the new campaign to stop Joseph Kony brutally abducting children and using them as soldiers to gain power for himself. The campaign is called Kony12 and you can see the video and all that jazz by clicking here.

HOWEVER, it wasn’t until I’d done a little research that I found out the other side of the story, about non transparency, methodology to stop Kony amongst other things. Again Read more

EDIT: Both sides of the story: The LORDs Resistance Army: Stopping the LRA and Joseph Kony #Kony12 @Invisible

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Current Affairs, Life Issues | 14 Comments

I thought I should share this with you considering the fact that literally everyone is talking about it. If you haven’t heard about it yet, then I’m not going to say anything. Just watch:

KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

It is an absolute disgrace that this is being done in the name of God. Everyone, especially the Church needs to take action NOW.

~~Please visit Invisible Children to find out how you can get involved.~~ I can’t really urge you to visit now considering the edit below:

EDIT: However, I have done some research and found the following:

We got trouble.

For those asking what you can do to help, please link to visiblechildren.tumblr.com wherever you see KONY 2012 posts. And tweet a link to this page to famous people on Twitter who are talking about KONY 2012!

I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor do I doubt for a second that Joseph Kony is a very evil man. But despite this, I’m strongly opposed to the KONY 2012 campaign.

KONY 2012 is the product of a group called Invisible Children, a controversial activist group and not-for-profit. They’ve released 11 films, most with an accompanying bracelet colour (KONY 2012 is fittingly red), all of which focus on Joseph Kony. When we buy merch from them, when we link to their video, when we put up posters linking to their website, we support the organization. I don’t think that’s a good thing, and I’m not alone.

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Abigail, marriage and godly hair

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Mrs. "God Loves Women" Posted in Church, Deep Discussion, God, Jesus, Life Issues, Rant! | 5 Comments

Recently I read this post from Matthew Paul Turner talking about Michelle Duggar’s “Seven Basic Needs of a Husband”. It includes:

Details of how a man needs to prove his manliness and asks how a wife can destroy her husband’s manliness.
Ensuring a wife lets her husband hear her praising him to others
Explains how a wife needs to accept her husband as leader, including a wife telling her husband how his *bad* decisions are benefitting her spiritual Read more