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WHO IS OUR NUMBER ONE FOLLOWER ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

“No one looks at our social profiles more than we do. ‘We’re constantly self-monitoring,’ Prof. Marshall says. Despite the name, social media isn’t so much about socialising with other people, it’s about ourselves. We may tell ourselves that we post online to help spread information, or to have a laugh with friends, but the number one reason we share online is to seek approval from other people.”…

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Dallas Willard on knowing Jesus Today

“If you really want to know Christ now, you have somehow to set aside the cloud of images and impressions that rule the popular as well as the academic mind, Christian and non-Christian alike. You must try to think of him as an actual human being in a peculiar human context who actually has had the real historical effects be did, up to the present. You have to take him out of the category of…

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When Spiritual Growth Seems Painful

Often as God increases our ministry and impact it can feel as though we are moving in reverse. Life seemingly become more difficult. Spiritual attack increases, isolation from others becomes more palpable, the life of spiritual freedom begins to feel heavy.

Be assured that this is because God is working deep within, exercising spiritual muscles never before used; transforming areas never…

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David Bentley Hart on how religious ideas animate culture.

“A culture – a civilization—is only as great as the religious ideas that animate it; the magnitude of a people’s cultural achievement is determined by the height of its spiritual aspirations.

The eye of faith, presumes to see something miraculous within the ordinary the moment, mysterious hints of of an intelligible order calling out for translation into artefacts.”

David Bentley Hart

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How orthodoxy feeds our creativity

How oprthodoxy feeds our creativity

Jackson Pollock became a sensation in the art world of the 1950’s . For centuries everyone had used brushes; yet here was this man, like a dancer, dripping paint with sticks. The paint whirled through the air creating storms of colour that would hang in the air, before splashing across the canvas, creating huge, complex fields of patterned texture.

It was so contemporary. So cutting edge. So…

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David Wells on how minsters can find freedom by escaping a career mentality

“The source of freedom for today’s ministers in located at the very heart of their vocation. The source lies not in their professional status or their current location along the trajectory of a career. It lies in the fact that they serve the living God, who is no respecter of persons, in the fact that they are the servants of his Word and Son, before whom all will be judged. It is this…

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Oswald Chambers

Final preparation for tonight's Facing Leviathan book launch and training session. 7:30pm 43 Orchard Grove Blackburn South. Entry free.

Warren Susman quote that I am using in my sermon on personality.

When our culture replaced the realm of the spiritual with the realm of the subconscious, our prime concern switched from the state of our souls, to the state of our feelings. The quest for salvation was was replaced by the goal of fulfilling of our desires.

I will be doing a book launch and training event on June 17 here in Melbourne, exploring the themes of my new book. Cost Free 7:30pm 43 Orchard Grove Blackburn South.

Philip Rieff on the plasticity of western culture.

Ronald Rolheiser summing up the contemporary condition.

Conversion is like...

And the front cover

The back cover of my new book #FacingLeviathan

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