travels

Its been a busy few weeks since I last posted....

I really need to get back into some painting...!

And to go visit the rest home, Chris here is from a rest home I visit. Shes amazing.

For those who don't know I am going to Africa in November this year for up to 3 months. I will be staying in Tanzania for at least 1 and a half months, but don't know how long elsewhere...Please pray for me all you christians!

Well gtg

A tribute to all kiwis

It make a brotha proud to be kiwi...we sure are persevering, aren't we

longing for peace

Listen to the poem of a leading atheist thinker Bertrand Russell:

Through the long years
I sought peace,
I found ecstacy, I found anguish,
I found madness,
I found loneliness.
I found the solitary pain
that knaws the heart,
But peace I did not find.

-a poem to Edith.


Listen to these words:

Come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.

wouldn't want to come face to face with this mumma

killer fungi

Strange...

Sharing faith

Thinking back over the few times I have walked up to strangers and shared my faith with them (that is the power of Jesus to save us in a perishing world) and I've had varying results. If you scoot down my blog you will see a video with a skit about excuses of why christians don't share they're faith. Its funny and quite true in some ways but I was talking to a friend and he said that the main reason Christians in our modern society don't share their faith is that they don't know Jesus sincerely expects us to. Matt 28:19. Its unclusive to all christians to... go and make more christian babys. In fact I think its essential to a believers growth in their faith-to be share it.

YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN - Howard Zinn

Mr.Zinn is a peace activist.
Think about that all you christians, cause if we stand still on this train of a secular world we will be flying a hundred miles away from the truth. We need to be active!

Falling back to my original thought, that being about the varying results of sharing my faith with strangers, I think its important to speak the truth even if no one listens.
One night me and some friends went out to Queen street and talked to people for hours about Jesus and I was amazed at how open people were. The whole night was amazing, I had so many conversations with people who were just hanging round with nothing to do and they were so open to God's truth and my testimony. We didn't get back home till 4 am or so which was crazy, but God did some great things in people's hearts that night. Other times I've shared and people have been totally closed.
At AUT we were doing an easter thing giving out eggs and I was invited to play Scum with these girls in the common room. I managed to mumble out a few words about the gospel but it just felt so wrong, like 'I shouldn't be here'. I left feeling like a bully after beating them all 3 rounds in a row.

But looking back, I know its God who changes people's hearts not me. So if I speak it out and nobody listens its not my responsibility. And if people do and respond its God who does the work not my many mumblings.

if your interested there are some fantastic talks by Ravi Zacherias you should listen to:

http://rzim.org/radio/archives.php?p=LMPT&v=detail&id=259
http://rzim.org/radio/archives.php?p=LMPT&v=detail&id=258

Its about being active in your faith, in your life and being proactive about what you believe in.

Sketchbook

I've just updated my Sketch book if anyone is interested in veiwing it :

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1264314#post1264314

This is a rather sarcastic creed by the english journalist Steve Turner - very funny

Creed
by Steve Turner

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin

We believe everything is OK

as long as you don't hurt anyone

to the best of your definition of hurt,

and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and

after marriage.

We believe in the therapy of sin.

We believe that adultery is fun.

We believe that sodomy’s OK.

We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything's getting better

despite evidence to the contrary.

The evidence must be investigated

And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there's something in horoscopes

UFO's and bent spoons.

Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,

Mohammed, and ourselves.

He was a good moral teacher though we think

His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same-

at least the one that we read was.

They all believe in love and goodness.

They only differ on matters of creation,

sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing

Because when you ask the dead what happens

they say nothing.

If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its

compulsory heaven for all

excepting perhaps

Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn

We believe in Masters and Johnson

What's selected is average.

What's average is normal.

What's normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.

We believe there are direct links between warfare and

bloodshed.

Americans should beat their guns into tractors .

And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.

It's only his behavior that lets him down.

This is the fault of society.

Society is the fault of conditions.

Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that

is right for him.

Reality will adapt accordingly.

The universe will readjust.

History will alter.

We believe that there is no absolute truth

excepting the truth

that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,

And the flowering of individual thought.

If chance be

the Father of all flesh,

disaster is his rainbow in the sky

and when you hear:

State of Emergency!

Sniper Kills Ten!

Troops on Rampage!

Whites go Looting!

Bomb Blasts School!

It is but the sound of man

worshipping his maker.

Steve Turner, (English journalist), "Creed," his satirical poem on the modern mind. Taken from Ravi Zacharias’ book Can Man live Without God? Pages 42-44

Pursuits

I havent updated this for ages, but I now will...at last.
To whom ever is reading this ... hi.

Listen to this:

Happiness (fragment)

Ever again to breath pure happiness,
The happiness our mother gave us, boys?
To smile at nothings, needing no cares?
Have we not laughed too often since with joy?

-war poet Wilfred Owen

How far will we chase the happiness of this world, how far shall we leave that simple happiness we had as children?
The more we seek selfishly and soley after the happiness the world offers, that happiness of simply being happy no matter the consequence, the futher down the road we go towards ultimate selfishness as a society.

We can chase happiness all our lives, but what this world will never give us (although it tries) is meaning. And meaning is what this rough reality demands of our souls.

One thing I have learned- there is no meaning to be found within me, or within you. Humans are NOT the answer to the worlds problems. Yes we have our liberal solutions, but look carefully at these and very often they will produce a greater problem to the one it tried to solve.

...there is no such thing as absolute freedom, its a contradiction in terms, just as there is no such thing as free love. It is the nature of Love to bind itself.
... "I do." = love. Love = commitment.

Ravi Zacherias.

Be carefull in what you pursue of life, be carefull you don't take things for granted with out examining its roots, and it's fruits.

ciao