Hi there Elliot
A couple of weeks back Soul Purpose popped by Palmy and New Plymouth for some Supporter Dessert Nights and this week we continue the theme by holding an appeal for help in the dollars department.
Right now Soul Purpose is communicating Jesus to young people all over New Zealand, giving them a hope and a direction in their struggles, and entertaining and inspiring a generation to live lives of truth, faith and righteousness. Young people are our country’s future, and what they read and look at often determines their own.
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Top 5 excuses for not donating to SP
5. "I'm a student".
4. Free is free, isn't it?
3. Personally, I think Dolly is a better magazine.
2. I donated to this other cool thing instead.
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Being Dumb
by Alicia Davidson
When was the last time you did something dumb? I have a long list of dumb moments going back to four years old when I accidentally dropped a friend's Cabbage Patch doll in the toilet. More recently, I walked into a builder's plank.
Being dumb is not so much fun. People laugh at you and it's all in slow motion. If you're unco like me, you'll know exactly what I mean. That's why I was amazed to discover so many people in the Bible who willingly do things that appear to be extremely dumb.
There's John, who lopes around the wilderness eating locusts and wearing a garment made from camel hair. Peter and Andrew abandon their fishing nets – and their respectable livelihood – at the prompting of some weird non-conformist who simply says, "Follow me." Mary uses her own hair as a flannel and wastes some very expensive perfume in the process of washing one man's feet. Not very cutey-cutey.
If you think the dignified Old Testament guys are any exception, think again. Noah devotes decades of his life to building some giant weird-looking contraption that has an even weirder name: The Ark. Abraham packs up everything he owns and moves out, not knowing where he's going (see Hebrews 11). Moses leads a bunch of whiners around the desert for 40 years in search of the 'Promised Land'. All of these people would have been seen as the deluded nutters of their day; they would have been the laughing stock of strangers, friends, family, and, in the case of Mary, even fellow Christians.
Dumb for God?
I asked myself if I'd ever done anything dumb for God and I struggled to come up with anything. Part of me is content to believe that I can be a 'relevant' Christian all the time – accepted by everyone, offensive to no one.
I don't talk about God at work because it's 'unprofessional'. I avoid telling other Christians when God has 'told me' to do something because I don't want to sound like a religious freak. The youth ministries in my city have cool names and multimedia presentations, so I don't ever have to be a dorky Christian. Do I?
A Kiwi Girl in Africa: Part 8
by Sarah Anderson
From one poverty-stricken world to another extravagant extreme. I’m on a completely different side of a huge wide ocean and the other end of the humanitarian scale (and the meteorological scale also). And it’s blatantly obvious. I don’t think you can get too much more contrasting than this! More »
My Life Story’s Latest Battle
by Jonny K
It was the night of Saturday 25 November 2006 when the possibilities of making music were expanded like one-channel mono to full-channel stereo for My Life Story. More »
