Jon Walsh » Christianity

The Emotional Fog

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:26:25 +0000

A few days ago, I was driving across a ridge (cliffs either side) at midnight, as one does… when low cloud cover passed over the road. I could see a few meters in front of me at best, and now realise why they put road reflectors on poles as well as on the road. It got so bad that I had to get out and look at which way the road was going, else drive off a cliff…

Slightly more recently I’ve been thinking about how emotions can often cloud our thinking as we walk the road of life. In intense emotions, we often lose sight of the bigger picture and solely focus on whatever we’re emotional about. Take anger for example: (more…)

Yearning for Grace

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:16:44 +0000

Photo by Rennett Stowe

The first of possibly several reflections on Grace…

I think the first time I understood what the word “Grace” meant, was perhaps only a few years ago. I’d been a Christian for several years longer than that. I’d sung about Grace, I’d prayed about Grace… but I’m not sure I actually understood what it actually was all that time. (more…)

The Need to Follow

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:01:11 +0000

I’m extremely reflective these days… and I feel the need to understand everything about life, and how to live it. But this behavior has quite frequently gotten me into a lot of trouble. While I thoroughly want to understand life, and how I can best live it for the glory of God, I quite often forget to follow. (more…)

GNP2U: Grace and Peace to you!

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:32:45 +0000

Recently, as I was about to wish someone good luck, I started to wonder why I would do such a foolish thing…

If God is with us and in us in spirit, why on earth do we put hope in something as foolish as luck?! Exaggeration aside, we’re obviously just expressing that we care about someone and want things to go well for them. But it’s still worth thinking about why we don’t encourage (in Christ) more than we currently do. (more…)

Christianity: A Balloon Waiting to be Popped?

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:03:51 +0000

I think the world often sees Christianity as a big balloon that’s just waiting to be popped. There’s just so many different angles you can attack it from. It’s got so many pins pressed against it from all sides that it just doesn’t seem like something you could possibly have a solid foundation in. Yet there’s something peculiar about this big balloon… it doesn’t seem to have been popped yet!?

As a great number of ‘experts’ push their pins deep into this balloon, the world looks away, thinking that there’s not a chance of it surviving. If only they opened their eyes! (more…)

Daily Bible Verse Script

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:55:58 +0000

After spending a few minutes looking for a nice, light weight, “Verse of the day” program for Linux, I decided I’d taken too long and wrote my own.

It grabs the verse from the Bible Gateway feed and prints it. Very simple. But used in conjunction with something like Zenity, it serves it’s purpose quite nicely. I run mine as a startup program, so it shows it whenever I login. (more…)

Socialising != Fellowship

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:28:12 +0000

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is the difference between socialising and fellowship. I think we often mistake them for the same thing, when really they can be very different. (more…)

Apologetics: The Big Picture

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:06:13 +0000

My church just recently held a “summer intensive” for uni students, where we had talks on 1 Corinthians, as well as evangelism and apologetics. I have to say, I did not expect it to be so good! (more…)

“There’s Probably No God”

admin — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:29:15 +0000

A few years ago I actually thought that there was substantial evidence against God’s existence. Not affirming evidence, but convincing nevertheless. But with Atheist slogans like “There’s probably no God”, along with the mountains of evidence to the contrary, I now find myself looking unto Atheism with utter bemusement. (more…)

Profanity: Female Dogs and Censorship

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:51:32 +0000

There are two issues I’d like to address here. One being the practice of censorship and the other being the seemingly recent popularity of female dogs. Both issues involve people seeing how close they can get to the line without crossing it, though I’d argue they’ve already crossed it by far. (more…)