Abstinence of a Different Kind

Can't remember where I saw this, but made me chuckle...

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Meet Samson

Judges 13-16

Most people think of the famous Bible character as having rippling muscles, rather like this:

But given the Philistines could not work out what gave him his strength, he probably looked more like this:

The Torture 40

Anyone fancy a go at this? It's all about the hills!...

Torture40

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Don't Moralise - Enjoy the Story

In the preface to A House For My Name: A Survey of the Old Testament, Peter Leithart makes the following comments that I found helpful:

Christians teaching the Old Testament are constantly tempted to treat it as a collection of moral fables. Abram "lies" to Pharaoh in Genesis 12, and we draw the conclusion that Abram's faith was not sufficiently strong, and that lying is a bad thing. But the story ends with Abram being treated well by Pharaoh and receiving all manner of livestock (Gen.12:16). How such an ending discourages lying is not exactly clear:

Being a Real Man?

We had a men's night at church this evening. We ate curry, but it wasn't that spicy actually.

Some women in our church had written down what they want to see from the men, we talked about that.

We also watched the following video. Let it challenge your sense of masculinity - in a healthy way!

Moses the Modern

For those like me, i.e. on school holiday and time on their hands, this is quite amusing.

Is The Problem That We Try Too Hard to Visualise the Trinity?

An excellent post by Dave Bish. Read the full entry here.