tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3385681350369928302011-11-27T23:45:44.065ZPhilip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338568135036992830.post-52908250196747054702007-04-01T07:41:00.000Z2007-04-02T12:56:46.870ZToday is what we call in the Christian Calendar - Palm Sunday. Jesus arrives riding on a never to be used donkey and crowd have their palm branches shouting out Hosanna, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. The sounds of praise were soon to be ones that would be shouting out Crucify him, crucify him. But this didnt defeat Jesus as he was to rise again on the final day.<br />While we do have this special day set aside, we should remember these things month by month by month. I will over this next week be looking at the seven sayings of the cross. It is so easy to get lukewarm about the Christian message. But at the centre of Christian message is the the event that we remember at the Easter time. In Churches we will often remember it when we take communion.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/338568135036992830-5290825019674705470?l=lost-in-wonder-and-worship.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Philip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338568135036992830.post-48197686936574429502007-01-15T18:21:00.000Z2007-01-18T19:50:28.093ZComments have been set to the default setting up to this point of only allowing registered users to comment. It has been opened this evening for all to comment. As usual anybody is welcome to comment! Looking forward to the discussion!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/338568135036992830-4819768693657442950?l=lost-in-wonder-and-worship.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Philip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338568135036992830.post-23458393203178355082007-01-13T23:47:00.000Z2007-01-14T00:01:19.121ZI got this article come through on email from <a href="http://www.licc.org.uk/">LICC</a> (London institute for contemporary Christianity) from their Culture Section. In this article Brian Draper is deliberating how we should respond to the showing of video clip of Sadam Hussein's Hanging and the fact that many felt that it wasn't right to show these clips. <br />I was struck by the comment which Brian Draper made at the end of the comment which was this which in effect brings us back to our attention that our Lord went through quite a brutal death for us:<br /><br /><em>"Christians, too, replay the final moments of an executed man to a world that doesn’t want to look, through our equivalent of the grainy mobile-phone download: our hymns and readings, statues and stained-glass windows. Of course, any comparison with Saddam ends there. One man deserved death, the other did not. Yet in the context of the recent pictures it’s even more sobering to think that Jesus Christ died as a criminal, taunted mercilessly by his enemies as he was finally nailed.<br />Sometimes you shouldn’t just look away."</em><br />To view the rest of the article entitled Don't look away click <a href="http://www.licc.org.uk/culture/dont-look-away">here</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/338568135036992830-2345839320317835508?l=lost-in-wonder-and-worship.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Philip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338568135036992830.post-83721979794868963132007-01-12T20:06:00.000Z2007-01-14T00:02:35.468ZI have been following baptist discussions in particular over the past couple of months on the blog. I have to say while I was brought up in a Baptist Church, I would say that I was baptist by conviction rather than by tradition. I have been following the two following blogs on baptist discussing issues such as membership, members meetings, identity, baptism:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://thewordatthebarricades.typepad.com/">The Word at the Barricades - Stuart Blythe, lecturer, Scottish Baptist College</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bromleyboy.blogspot.com/">A Sideways Glance - Simon Jones (Pastor, Bromley)</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/338568135036992830-8372197979486896313?l=lost-in-wonder-and-worship.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Philip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338568135036992830.post-61615156911699338032007-01-12T19:54:00.000Z2007-01-12T20:04:11.661ZI have come accross one or two blogs which have the particular theme preaching.<br />New to Blogging is Colin Adams, associate pastor at Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh . It has various postings including opportunities to hear and review preachers: <a href="http://unashamedworkman.wordpress.com/">Unashamed Workman</a><br />Milton Stanley of Virginia USA has a blog on preaching resources on <a href="http://transformingsermons.blogspot.com">Transforming Sermons</a> which I have been following over the past couple of months.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/338568135036992830-6161515691169933803?l=lost-in-wonder-and-worship.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Philip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338568135036992830.post-10751250592296304342007-01-02T13:49:00.000Z2007-01-14T00:02:07.216ZDiscovered this article in last Saturday's (23rd Dec) times:<br /><br /><blockquote>"The rapid growth of evangelical and Pentecostal congregations in Britain and the United States has astonished almost everyone, save the evangelicals and Pentecostals themselves" click <a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2516528,00.html">here</a> to vew rest of the article</blockquote>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/338568135036992830-1075125059229630434?l=lost-in-wonder-and-worship.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Philip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338568135036992830.post-79138915395264833362007-01-01T00:07:00.001Z2007-01-01T00:07:56.105ZHappy new year and all the best for 2007!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/338568135036992830-7913891539526483336?l=lost-in-wonder-and-worship.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Philip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338568135036992830.post-70251441212830250332006-12-30T22:45:00.000Z2006-12-30T22:52:01.949ZWelcome to this new blog. I felt the need for this one as there is often things I want to write about that dont quite fit into the categort of prayer which is the theme of my original blog which started in April. You can view it <a href="http://visionbyprayer.blogspot.com">here</a>. I have taken the title of the blog from the theme of my advent posts in December 2006. As to the development of this blog watch this space over the next couple of weeks<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/338568135036992830-7025144121283025033?l=lost-in-wonder-and-worship.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Philip Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17212616603223942515noreply@blogger.com0