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Jesus / Avatar / Jesus / Avatar?

First up – I loved the movie Avatar when I finally got to watch it last week. The whole 3D thing was pretty cool, and it is certainly a great looking film – and a really enjoyable storyline too. I’d heard a few people saying it was a good film for making connections to ‘The Big Story’ too… Wasn’t so convinced about this, but a great story nevertheless.

This morning I listened to a great sermon by Greg Boyd called ‘Jesus: Avatar or God’ (which you can download from the very bottom of this page) – a really good refresher on the uniqueness of Jesus, particularly in the light of the Avatar film.

The big difference between Avatar and Jesus, as Boyd makes really clear, is that Jesus is the only human ever to also be fully God, and the only God who ever became fully human. Ever.

Still a great film though….

How to raise happier children…

…Put your marriage first.

A new book from a US therapist called David Cole is entitled To Raise Happy Kids, Put Your Marriage First. The Guardian has an article on this – looks like an interesting read, and something of an alternative approach to the ‘norm’.

Worth checking out…

A Psalm

Over the last couple of years, I’ve tried (in a non-details, change-is-as-good-as-a-rest kind of way) to follow the lectionary readings of the C of E each morning. One of the best things about this is reading a couple of Psalms each morning…. And this morning reminded me again why that’s a good idea:

Lord, you have assigned me my portion​​ and my cup;​
you have made my lot​ secure.
The boundary lines​ have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.​
I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;​
even at night​ my heart instructs me.
I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand,​ I will not be shaken.​
Therefore my heart is glad​ and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure,​
because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,​
nor will you let your faithful​ one​ see decay.​
You make known to me the path of life;​
you will fill me with joy in your presence,​
with eternal pleasures​ at your right hand.

Psalm 16:5-11 (TNIV)
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Blogging is back

Welcome (back) to lifeincolour.com. After almost two years of zero blogging activity, I’m making a bold attempt to try and get it up and running again, and am seriously hoping to write stuff on here at least one or two times a month. We will see, of course, whether I manage it!

Why?

Well, I don’t feel like I’ve done a great job of keeping our good friends around the other side of the world up to speed with what’s being going on with us. So that’s reason one. Also, we have an imminent move coming up again in the next couple of months (more info soon – this time we’re ‘only’ moving within Australia, so no long haul relocation again, thankfully!). So we have yet another community of friends we’re moving on from and want to keep in touch with – reason two. And thirdly, despite the mass of information available online, I still think it might be helpful to a few of my friends, for me to highlight resources I have found particularly useful or helpful, and even offer up the odd thought or reflection of my own too.

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