February 2012
6 posts
A Lesson From Walking (pt I) - Tentative
I read a quote last night from Terry Virgo’s book ‘No Well-Worn Paths’, it was originally part of a sermon by someone else, but here it is:
Now with both feet firmly on the ground let us advance forward.
I don’t know if I read it correctly, but to me it was a slightly tongue-in-cheek. ‘How can you advance if you have both feet on the ground?’ Well, the...
Freed By Love: Process to Promise! →
fbyl:
I wake each morning (well when I’ve actually been to sleep) completely secure that God is good and there are promises over my life. There have been a few occasions recently though where I’ve also woke thought that and then gone ‘Seriously though God…’ because if I’m totally honest my reality of…
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Expectations and Reality
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Phillippians 3:12
If my situation changes, does that mean that my expectations should change as well?
Was going through some of the cards, well-wishes and prophecies that I received just before coming to Brazil the other night, it made for an interesting...
January 2012
12 posts
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How Do You
Get more followers on this thing?
Someone wanna reblog something? Is that how it works?
Or do I have to do that ‘If you follow me, I’ll follow you’ malarkey?
I just want people to read my stuff and tell me they think I’m wrong.
But…
Only for the King
Jx
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Old and New
There are two prominent people in the New Testament outside of Jesus - Peter and Paul. Peter was a disciple of Jesus from the beginning, Paul received a revelation of Jesus after Jesus’ death. Both were Jews. Both wrote parts of the New Testament. Both were in charge of churches. Peter was a fisherman, and hence had an extremely small amount of education. Paul was a High Official, very...
“Pois ele satisfaz a alma sedenta, e enche de bens a alma faminta.”
– Salmos 107:9
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm...”
– Charles Hadden Spurgeon, One of the world’s greatest preachers,
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Quick Idea: Evangelism/Ideia Rapidinho:...
Get a sofa. Get a lamp (one of those old ones with the frilly lamp-shade). Get a coffee table. Get a few magazines/newspapers. Get a small generator. Get a coffee maker.
Set all up in the middle of town.
Invite people to sit with you and talk to them.
Tell them about Jesus in a natural way - because you love them, and Jesus is ace.
Get their number or contact details if the opportunity...
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Scabs (An intro)
Scabs are ugly. They’re like, sometimes green, red, sometimes brown, sometimes a deep purple, sometimes yellowy, dry, flaky, aren’t nice to look at. In short - scabs aren’t a great look to aim for.
But scabs are also amazingly complex (please take a look at the wikipedia page - loot at all the long words!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_healing#Proliferative_phase )
When...
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Religion is (not necessarily) Bad
We (in the church) make SUCH a big deal about being ‘Anti-Religion’. We often say things like:
I’m not religious, I have a living faith with Jesus Christ.
Organised religion is totally man-made and gets in the way of true faith.
I hate religion as much as you.
etc
How biblical is this? In the majority part - it’s great. Jesus shuns the pharisees and Sadducees for...
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A Lesson on Passion
When I was younger - about 16, just before I went to college - I received a comment from a friend that at the time I valued highly. The comment was more or less this -
Jason, you’re always the same, nothing seems to bother you, you just carry on regardless - you’re constant.
I remember where it was, who I was with, and what we were doing. It was a very strong word that stuck with...
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Answer the Question
One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”
John 5:5-7
This question...
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Official(?) Update
I’ve now been in Brazil for a little over 4 months, and the time out here has been interesting to say the least! It’s been interesting for numerous reasons, but the main one is that I simply could never have imagined what this time would have been like before I arrived. I mean - I had expectations, I’d heard stories, I had contacts and a ‘pinpoint’ sized idea of what I was going to be doing – but...
“Dimensions are powerful tools which we use to organise, live and understand the...”
– Xavier Bor (WHAT A COOL FREAKIN NAME!) - http://blazelabs.com/f-p-hds.asp
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A Testimony Involving Apples and Cancer
Here’s an amazing story. It’s ace because God’s involved in it in a big way - like he is with everything, but with this story it’s extra-extra-ordinary.
Someone I know went to a prayer meeting the other week, and had received an image for someone they met at the prayer meeting. They’d never met them before, and had no idea about their background, history, or...
December 2011
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“So, in this empty, this destitute condition of man, he relieved him by a...”
– Allestre, Government, pg 5, ch. I
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One manifold of experience
As part of a recent book I read, which had a quote from G.K. Chesterton which paraphrased comes to
Look at the ordinary until it becomes extraordinary again
I believe there are A WHOLE LOAD of things that we overlook as ‘ordinary’, when in fact they are if anything ‘extra-ordinary’. The basic question of ‘why things are the way they are’ helps us to see...
Preocopuaçao e a Vontade de Deus
O coração do homem propõe o seu caminho; mas o Senhor lhe dirige os passos. Proverbs 16:9
Pois, se Deus assim veste a erva do campo, que hoje existe e amanhã é lançada no forno, quanto mais a vós, homens de pouca fé? Portanto, não vos inquieteis, dizendo: Que havemos de comer? ou: Que havemos de beber? ou: Com que nos havemos de vestir? (Pois a todas estas coisas os gentios procuram.) Porque...
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The Command
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect. - Matthew 5:48
So why bother trying? If we need to be perfect, and we can’t be, what’s the point in starting? I mean, seriously - Right now I’m thinking I need to be holier. I’m not lying - I feel like I’ve been a pretty crap christian the last few days. You know the deal - not reading the bible a...
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Burning Bibles
One thing I really want to do is burn a Bible.
Sometimes when I’m lying in bed at night I think about preaching. It sounds stupid, but it’s true. My mind is most creative at night time, and as such I usually think of some of the most controversial things I could, or could not, do (I’m still thinking about the possibility of doing the above).
Why do I want to burn a Bible? Well,...
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Fighting Whom?
The Christian Life is a fight. It’s an uphill struggle. Sometime’s it’s a fight for survival. Other times it feels simply like a massive weight.
There’s a verse that’s part of a story that many of us know - David and Goliath. Just before David fights his first battle against a man (which happens to be the biggest warrior from the opposition) he says the following...
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Changes, Black Sabbath & Pubescent Teens
Ozzy Osbourne did a song with his daughter Kelly Osbourne called ‘Changes’, it was originally done by Ozzy’s first (and best) band Black Sabbath. The cover was shoddy. The original was ace.
I don’t know the lyrics apart from the chorus, and to be honest I’m not too interested in them - if anything it sounds kinda like a teenager going through puberty (which would...
“Thinking you’re driving the car - only to find out you’re a child in...”
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A Week
So it’s been a while since I last blogged, about a week or so ago. I’ve been in a different city - Goiania. Originally it was just an excuse to travel at an invite of a friend through my parents, but it came at just the right time to allow and bring some healing, revelation and normality.
I’m learning more and more that God’s timing is often the best timing. Maybe not...
“Hope… is seizing God’s future. It is the transfer of loyalty and...”
– David Gill, Living Faith - Introduction, pg xii
Live, laugh, love!: Mera coincidência? →
This was the friend I met - who has mirrored my blog post from her perspective. It’s ace.
sweetsandsmiles:
Quanta coisa tem acontecido na minha vida nesses últimos 6 meses.
Tempestade e calmaria; bons e maus momentos. E no meio de tudo isso vejo o quanto nosso Papai do céu cuida de mim, sem falhar. Ele me surpreende sempre!
Tudo começou quando meu amigo Julinho voltou do Manancial....
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Forwards and Backwards, Forwards and Backwards,...
One of my favourite verses in the Bible is from Phillipians where Paul says this
“Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.” Phillipians 3:13.
I always thought this was great, and still do, and today God showed me another aspect of this verse: Hope, and Promise.
Events that happen...
November 2011
10 posts
God's Way - The Scenic Route
Let’s start with what I’ve actually been getting up to this past week - what you guys I guess are actually interested in (I mean, seriously, who wants to hear the theological ramblings of a 20-something year old?).
This week has been ace. Totally amazingly ace. I met a friend for dinner on Sunday, who I’d met at CNUC (Christian Underground Conference) and consequently met some...
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Seeing God (pt III)
This is a post in relation and expansion to a post about Seeing God (pt II) and being a spy.
Numbers 13. This is a story familiar to a lot of people. And to be fair - most of the chapter isn’t very interesting, and almost negative.
Background: so the Israelites had been given this Promised Land by God (which is funny, because there were still other people living in the land and the...
Now it's official!
I now have my own page on my church’s website. To visit it click here http://www.clch.org.uk/jason-marrett/
It basically gives a concise low-down as to why I’m doing what I’m doing.
It’s got a photo of me that looks like I’m wearing lipstick. But hey, I don’t mind - don’t think it’d be the first time.
Only for the King
Jx
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Seeing God (pt II)
After typing in the title for this blog I realised that I’d already written another one by the same title (http://jasonmarrett.tumblr.com/post/9666468071/seeing-god) and so to make myself seem more ‘with it’ I decided to keep the theme and stick ‘pt II’ at the end. I mean, you know - almost makes it sound like God’s giving me a theme about my time in Brazil...
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Culture as Context
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On 'Our Desires, God's Blessing'
I had a semi-revelationary thought yesterday, it was one of those ‘self-realising’ moments where everyone in the world and their dog has told you the fact, but it means nothing until you realise it yourself. The revelation was this - I’m feeling dissatisfied because my desire is for the wrong thing.
At the moment to be honest my desire might have started out Godly - that is,...
“Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning
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– G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy, pg 7
Seeing and Not Seeing
In Hebrews 11 faith is shown as certain of things not seen. In Psalms we’re told to taste and SEE the LORD is good.
It looks like the idea that the LORD is Good is a fact - which is demonstrated (as Romans 1 shows) throughout all creation. You don’t need faith to see how Good God is.
But then other things like the hope of a coming salvation, the hope the God will work in a situation,...
Dois Gumes
Pois a palavra de Deus eh viva e eficaz, e mais afiada que qualquer espada de dois gumes… Heb 4:12
Uma espada de dois giumes foi chamado isso porque ela corta nos dois direcoes - a frente, e a atras. A palavra de Deus eh nosse arma, mas eh interessante que nossa arma nao so pode cortar nossas inimigos, mas pode cortar-nos tambem.
A palavra de Deus eh pra atacar pecados - nao so o inimigo...
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On 'Why Marriage is not just Sex'
I’ve heard a few people recently (close friends of mine, very close friends) that have equated Marriage (biblically, Christian marriage) as Sex. So, I’m going to put this out there - it’s not.
So, why not? A lot of people are taught - even me - that when you have sex with someone you are effectively in God’s eyes married to them because you have shared not only a physical...
October 2011
23 posts
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Jesus Partied
Jesus went to parties.
Jesus ate and drank.
Jesus had fun.
Jesus had a close bunch of 12 friends.
Why?
For the glory of God.
Therefore - partying can be done for God’s glory. So, we need to find someway of redeeming this from the ‘party to excess’ attitude.
Us Christians have more of a reason to celebrate and party than anyone else. Fact.
We need to party for God, and...
We forgive because...?
There’s a quick excerpt in the gospel of Matthew that runs something like this:
Disciple: ‘How many times should we forgive people? You know, before we let them walk all over us? A couple? Just once? Seven times?
Jesus: ‘It goes like this - you forgive them a lot.’
- For those of you who hate the Message bible and love the ESV I’m really sorry if you’re...
Interpretation
We need to have an objective - true - understanding of things in order to communicate with each other. Having individual ‘truths’, or having our own interpretation of the world labelled as ‘truth’, we run the risk of no-one being able to truly communicate with each other because there is no similar understanding of concepts and information. For example, check out this:
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Normality
This week, well, since returning from my time in Peru and Aracaju, I’ve suddenly found more opportunities to do things, and people to do them with.
Played football the other day - that was interesting. But thankfully the other guys are just as bad as me… I’m not sure if it was out of pity or they actually are that bad. Either way, I had a lot of fun getting my top off and...
God is not just 'there'
With any information you have, it is impossible to disconnect it from the medium it is experienced, and from the person who is experiencing it. Using various philosophies like Kant and Heidegger, data is passed through various mediums before finally being processed as usable information. In an article by Saab and Fonseca they say that - ‘If we are to understand information we must not...
“For true semantic interoperability to occur among diverse information systems,...”
– Ontological Complexity and Human Culture, Saab & Fonseca, pg 1
Mais uma coisa da Profecia/Another thing about...
No acampamento de Reach esse feveirero passado (minha igreja na Manchester), eu dei uma profecia pelo amigo. Estava basicamente isso - Dentro de um ano, algo vai acontecer que mudarei sua vida, que mudarei seu mundo.
Hoje, esse amigo me disse que esta profecia esta acontecendo agora, que esta profecia foi verdade, foi massa.
Eu amo quando Deus use pessoas por vontade dele.
É legal.
Sick.
At...
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Desolation and Compassion
In Matthew 15 we hear that Jesus is wanting to go to a desolate place to be alone, and pray with his Father. When I try and do this, I’m gonna be honest - I can be quite selfish. My mindset is like this - I’ve planned this time with God, no one should get in the way of this, I don’t want to talk to you, I just wanna go put on Ascend the Hill and read my bible. So, when someone...
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Old Prophecy/Profecia Velha
Today I was going through a little bank of encouraging words and old prophecies that I’ve received over my time at University.
I stumbled across one from Lifegroup. This prophecy was slightly different, it wasn’t a ‘direct’ word from someone to me, it was written by means of a ‘game’.
The game goes like this: everyone writes a number on the top of the page,...
“Sex is between the ears before it’s between the legs.”
– Ibid, pg 3