1. Love Wins – Rob Bell
2. Wie was Jesus regtig? – Francois Wessels
3. Jerusalem’s Heart – Bodie & Brock Thoene
4. Celebration of Discipline – Richard Foster (This book will be on the list for a while, because I am doing a study on it)
5. Contemplative Youth Ministry – Mark Yaconelli (This book will be on the list for a while, because I am doing a study on it)
6. The Love Dare (This book will be on the list for a while, because I am doning a study on it)
7. Blood types, Body types, and You – Joseph Christiano
8. Jesus – ‘n Radikale Sprong – Stephan Joubert
9. Out Live your Life – Max Lucado
10. Static – Ron Martoia
11. Tactics – Fred Stoker with Mike Yorkey
12. Fokus op Strategiese Leierskap – Andy Stanley
13. Architects of Poverty – Moeletsi Mbeki
14. The Meaning of Friendship – Mark Vernon
15. Everything must change – Brian D. McLaren
16. The Forgotten Ways – Alan Hirsch
17. When you need a miracle – Lloyd John Ogilvie
18. In die Greep van Genade – Max Lucado
19. God juig oor jou – Max Lucado
20. Money, Sex and Power – Richard Foster
21. Cupidity – Hayley & Michael DiMarco
22. Prayers from the Heart – Richard Foster
23. Star Trek Deep Space Nine #26: Rebels #3 – Daffyd ab Hugh
24. Social Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
25. Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
26. Discover your Spiritual Type – Corinne Ware
27. Just Walk Across the Room – Bill Hybels
28. Faith to Faith – Dan Scott
29. Pagan Christianity? – Frank Viola & George Barna
30. Personality Type and Religious Leadership – Roy M. Oswald & Otto Kroeger
31. Spiritual Wholeness for Clergy – Donald R. Hands and Wayne L. Fehr
32. Jake’s Choice – Jim & Rachel Britts

(Okay, so here are 32 books… O, well…)

1. Net soos Jesus – Max Lucado
2. Wanneer God jou naam fluister – Max Lucado
3. In die Huis van my Vader – Max Lucado
4. Where is God when it hurts? – Philip Yancey
5. Star Trek: Insurrection – J.M. Dillard
6. Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
7. Jim & Casper go to Church – Jim Henderson & Matt Casper
8. Die NG Kerk en Apartheid – Johann Kinghorn e.a. (This book was for an assignment in one of the subjects that I had in the year)
9. Star Trek Voyager #4: Violations – Susan Wright
10. Tiferet Yisra’el: The Glory of Israel – Marzanne Leroux-Van der Boon
11. Star Trek Next Generation: Last Words – A.C. Crispin
12. Star Trek Next Generation: Bedside Matters – Greg Cox
13. Star Trek Next Generation: On the Scent of Trouble – John Gregory Betancourt

http://myfavouritephodies.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/dominus-flevit-church-jerusalem/

I wanted to share it hear as well. Here is what he wrote, then:

“Dit het ‘n nuwe kerklike mode geword om enigeen van wie jy verskil te klassifiseer as deel van die “emerging church.” Om een of ander rede is hierdie etiket bedoel as ‘n teologiese skeldwoord. As jy deesdae enigiemand vanaf Rob Bell, Brian McLaren, Ron Martoia, tot by Doug Pagitt of Tony Jones se boeke op jou rak het of dalk iemand ken wat hulle ken, is jy outomaties melaats. Hierdie is die nuwe sonde van “guilty by association.” (Terloops, dan moet diegene wat so dink summier ophou om Paulus te lees wat ‘n keer of wat nie-gelowige Griekse digters aanhaal, of die Judasbrief, wat aanhaal uit geskrifte soos die Testament van Moses en 1 Henog, wat nie deel van die kanon is nie.)

It has become fashionable in the church to classify anyone that you do not agree with as being part of the “emerging church”. For some or other reason this label are meant as a theological curse-word. Nowadays, if you have the books of anyone from Rob Bell, Brian McLaren, Ron Martoia, to Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones, on your shelves, or maybe know someone who does have their books on their shelves, you are automatically treated as having leprosy. This is the new sin called “guilty by association”. (By the way, those who think this way should also stop reading Paul, who quoted non-religious Greek poets at times, or the Jude-letter, who quotes from writings such as the Testament of Moses or 1 Enoch, which is not part of the canon.)

In boeke, webblaaie en artikels word kerklikes deesdae met etikette van “emerging church” beplak en voorgehou as verdraaiers van die Waarheid, of as skeppers van ‘n nuwe, afgewaterde evangelie. Ook in Suid Afrika is dit die geval. Helaas het hierdie verdagmakery ontaard in moddergooiery en sub-standaard karakteraanvalle wat deurspek is van foutiewelike aanhalings en ongegronde uitsprake oor mense wat nie behoorlik gelees of uitgehoor is nie. (Ek bloos namens die klipgooiers!)

In books, websites and articles, church people are getting stuck by “emerging church” labels, and are held up as twisting the Truth, or as creators of a new, watered-down gospel. This is also the case in South Africa. This suspicions have grown into mudslinging and sub-standard character-attacks, which are full of faulthy quotes or unsubstansiated statements about people who weren’t read properly or who haven’t been listened to thoroughly. (I am ashamed on behalf of the rock-pitchers/-throwers!)

In die lig van bogenoemde reaksies kan daar eintlik geen goeie debat wees oor die sg. “emerging church” nie (lees egter die volgende artikel wat ‘n goeie oorsig bied oor die beweging: http://www.pomofaith.com/the-emerging-church/). Maar vir die rekord- dit is interessant dat bekendes wat hierdie term aanvanklik gebruik het, soos Erwin McManus en Dan Kimball, glad nie meer aan sg. emerging gesprekke deelneem nie. Op sy beurt het Leonard Sweet, wat die term “emergent” geskep het, in die Amerikaanse tydskrif RELEVANT (21; Julie/Aug 2006) homself hiervan gedistansieër in ‘n debat met McLaren en Jones. Sy ondubbelsinnige woorde was: “Count me out!” So voel ek ook. Trouens, ek wil saam met Leonard Sweet (Answering my Critics- A Response”) oor die “emerging church” die volgende beaam:

(In the light of the above-mentioned reactions, there can really be no good debate about the so-called “emerging church” (you can read the following article, though, which gives a good oversight about the movement: http://www.pomofaith.com/the-emerging-church/). For the record, though – it is interesting that well-known people who used this term at first, like Erwin McManus and Dan Kimball, doesn’t participate anymore in the so-called emerging discussion at all. Leonard Sweet, who created the term “emergent”, distanced himself from it in an American magazine RELEVANT (21; Julie/Aug 2006) in a debate with McLaren and Jones. His unambiguous words were: “Count me out!” That is the way I feel as well. I want to repeat the following statements by Leonard Sweet (Answering my Critics- A Response”) with regards to the “emerging church” (this was written in English, thus I do not have to translate it here):

“1. It is prone to cause political ruckus when it should be rocking the world for Christ;

2. It is missing a hunger and longing for the salvation of others, a passion for others to fall in love with Jesus and the sense that there are things at stake here that have both earthly and eternal consequences . . .

3. It appears more and more to be a new evangelical form of the old 70s liberation theology

4. It makes the mistake of separating the Person of Jesus from His teachings

5. It deconstructs everything, including the historic creeds of the church and the divine inspiration of the entire biblical canon

6. It revels in spreading doubt more than faith.”

NOU- VIR DAARDIE HOOFLETTER-VRAE (this part was written in Afrikaans, so I will be translating it again; NOW- FOR THAT CAPITAL-LETTER QUESTIONS):

IS EKERK ‘N “EMERGENTE KERK,” soos een geleerde vir my gesê het? Genugtig, nee!

ARE EKERK AN “EMERGING CHURCH”, as one scholar told me? Absolutely, no!

IS EKERK UITVERKOOP AAN CHRISTUS? Ja, Hy is die Een, die enigste Een! Hy IS en bly die regte roete Godwaarts!

ARE EKERK SOLD OUT TO CHRIST? Yes, He is the One, the only One! He IS and remains the true access to God!

IS DIE EKERK SE VOETE OP DIE ROETE VAN DIE BYBEL? Flou vraag! Loshande, en met alles in ons.

ARE THE EKERK’S FEET ON THE ROAD OF THE BIBLE? Weak question! Without a doubt, and with everything within us.

IS ONS TEEN DIE TRADISIONELE KERK? Wat? Gedoriewaar, nee! Ons is deel van die liggaam van Christus op aarde! Ons verabsoluteer net nie kerklike omhulsels ten koste van verhoudings nie!

ARE WE AGAINST THE TRADISIONAL CHURCH? What? Honestly, no! We are part of the body of Christ on earth! We just don’t elevate churchly encosures above relationships!

IS ONS TEEN DOGMA EN LEERSTELLINGS? Op dees aarde nie! Jesus is ons belydenis en belewenis. Ons bely ons geloof agter die 12 Artikels aan en beleef dit daagliks in ons harte en gedagtes, al die pad tot by ons vingerpunte en voetsole. Teologie is egter nie net klaskamersake nie. So ook is kerk nie net vir Sondae alleen bedoel nie. Ekerk is daarom die wêreld vol- hier, daar en doer. Bokse en etikette- asseblief tog net nie. Ons leef, werk, speel en leef tussen lyne en spasies vir Jesus! Dis daar en doer waar ons wil wees!”

ARE WE AGAINST DOGMA AND DOCTRINES? No! Jesus is our confession and experience. We confess our faith after the 12 Articles, and experiences it daily in our hearts and minds, and all the way into our fingerprints and footprints. Theology isn’t just classroombound, though. In the same way church isn’t meant for Sundays alone. Ekerk is thus all over the world – here, there, and everywhere. Boxes and labels – please not! We live, work and play between the lines and spaces for Jesus. It is there that we want to be!

I also read some of the article. I must say it was a little informative…

Until about six months ago, this statement was 100% true for my own life. I never had a super-perfect diet. I did watch what I ate, though. It is that well-known though of eating less calories, and so on. I was in the gym almost every day. I had a relative balanced workout- program.

Somewhere in the last six months, I stopped exercising as faithfully as I used to, and started to eat more “richly”. I started to exercise three days instead of six days of the week. Later I only exercised one day in every two weeks. I defended myself, by saying that I was busy with studies and quiet time (which might also get a post at some stage). I comforted myself with the fact that I at least got exercise during two hockey practices each week. That was only true for a short while, though. I exercised with that team for about two weeks. When I stopped exercising with them (because I was unfit and didn’t have much skill anyway), I didn’t start with regular work in the gym again. I exercised about 2-3 times a month!

I didn’t do that much effort with my diet anymore. As I already said: I never had a super-perfect diet. I did eat certain foods and stayed away from others, though. In some way, the “slacking” in my exercising program transferred to a “slacking” in my diet. I always had the tendency to eat when I was under stress. The last few months was somewhat stressfull in my life. That old habit of eating-under-stress came to the fore in a strong way.

About three weeks ago, I got onto the scale before one of my very few gym-sessions. I almost got the freight of my life when I saw what happened! I weighed about 128 kg! When I started to exercise, I weighed a little over 130 kg!. At the beginning of the year, I weighed less than 115 kg! That meant that I loss 3 kg in about two months, but that I gained 15 kg in less than nine months! I couldn’t believe it! Did I “let myself go” that hugely?

A person doesn’t really know how unhealthy you live, until you are confronted with it so directly.

In the last three weeks, I exercised in some way almost every day. One of those weeks I spent at the sea, and there was daily opportunities to walk for long distances. The other weeks I was in the gym almost daily.

This will become one of the aims of this new format of my blog: to use it to keep myself accountable en to do more daily effort” with my exercising and eating programs. I actually hope that there will be someone who will join me on this attempt to become healthy, who will be inspired to start living healthy as well, and who will keep me accountable with regards to my own exercising and eating programs.

This will probably be a journey for me, and hopefully someone will be inspired to join my journey in some way.

Until next time

Sometimes I blogged in Afrikaanse and translated the same post in English. Other times I blogged in English and translated it in Afrikaans. When I look back, I realize that it must look very congested and full. I started a new blog, in Afrikaanse. In this new blog, I will be posting what I want to post in Afrikaans. I will still translate posts, but I will post it on two different blogs from now on.

I hope that this new way of blogging will help me to “blog better” and more regularly as well.

Let’s see how it goes…

While I am writing about new blogs. I also started this new blog, where I will place some of my favourite photos/pictures every now and then. I hope you like it as I alsoe like it.

Come and have a coffee with me.

1. Tiferet Yisra’el: The Glory of Israel – Marzanne Leroux-Van der Boon
2. Jerusalem’s Heart – Bodie & Brock Thoene
3. Celebration of Discipline – Richard Foster (This book will be on the list for a while, because I am doing a study on it)
4. Contemplative Youth Ministry – Mark Yaconelli (This book will be on the list for a while, because I am doning a study on it)
5. Jesus – ‘n Radikale Sprong – Stephan Joubert
6. Out Live your Life – Max Lucado
7. Static – Ron Martoia
8. Tactics – Fred Stoker with Mike Yorkey
9. Fokus op Strategiese Leierskap – Andy Stanley
10. Architects of Poverty – Moeletsi Mbeki
11. The Meaning of Friendship – Mark Vernon
12. The Love Dare – Fireproof Writers
13. Everything must change – Brian D. McLaren
14. The Forgotten Ways – Alan Hirsch
15. When you need a miracle – Lloyd John Ogilvie
16. In die Greep van Genade – Max Lucado
17. God juig oor jou – Max Lucado
18. Money, Sex and Power – Richard Foster
19. Cupidity – Hayley & Michael DiMarco
20. Prayers from the Heart – Richard Foster
21. Star Trek Deep Space Nine #26: Rebels #3 – Daffyd ab Hugh
22. Social Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
23. Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
24. Discover your Spiritual Type – Corinne Ware
25. Just Walk Across the Room – Bill Hybels
26. Faith to Faith – Dan Scott
27. Pagan Christianity? – Frank Viola & George Barna
28. Personality Type and Religious Leadership – Roy M. Oswald & Otto Kroeger
29. Afrikanerskap in Bybelse lig – Prof. JL Helberg
30. Spiritual Wholeness for Clergy – Donald R. Hands and Wayne L. Fehr

1. 1. Tiferet Yisra’el: The Glory of Israel – Marzanne Leroux-Van der Boon
   2. Jerusalem’s Heart – Bodie & Brock Thoene
   3. Celebration of Discipline – Richard Foster (This book will be on the list for a while, because I am doing a study on it)
   4. Contemplative Youth Ministry – Mark Yaconelli (This book will be on the list for a while, because I am doning a study on it)
   5. Jesus – ‘n Radikale Sprong – Stephan Joubert
   6. Out Live your Life – Max Lucado
   7. Static – Ron Martoia
   8. Tactics – Fred Stoker with Mike Yorkey
   9. Fokus op Strategiese Leierskap – Andy Stanley
   10. Architects of Poverty – Moeletsi Mbeki
   11. The Meaning of Friendship – Mark Vernon
   12. The Love Dare – Fireproof Writers
   13. Everything must change – Brian D. McLaren
   14. The Forgotten Ways – Alan Hirsch
   15. When you need a miracle – Lloyd John Ogilvie
   16. In die Greep van Genade – Max Lucado
   17. God juig oor jou – Max Lucado
   18. Money, Sex and Power – Richard Foster
   19. Cupidity – Hayley & Michael DiMarco
   20. Prayers from the Heart – Richard Foster
   21. Star Trek Deep Space Nine #26: Rebels #3 – Daffyd ab Hugh
   22. Social Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
   23. Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
   24. Discover your Spiritual Type – Corinne Ware
   25. Just Walk Across the Room – Bill Hybels
   26. Faith to Faith – Dan Scott
   27. Pagan Christianity? – Frank Viola & George Barna
   28. Personality Type and Religious Leadership – Roy M. Oswald & Otto Kroeger
   29. Afrikanerskap in Bybelse lig – Prof. JL Helberg
   30. Spiritual Wholeness for Clergy – Donald R. Hands and Wayne L. Fehr

1. Net soos Jesus – Max Lucado
2. Wanneer God jou naam fluister – Max Lucado
3. In die Huis van my Vader – Max Lucado
4. Where is God when it hurts? – Philip Yancey
5. Star Trek: Insurrection – J.M. Dillard
6. Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
7. Jim & Casper go to Church – Jim Henderson & Matt Casper
8. Die NG Kerk en Apartheid – Johann Kinghorn e.a. (Hierdie boek was vir ‘n taak in een van die vakke wat ek gehad het in die jaar)
9. Star Trek Voyager #4: Violations – Susan Wright

Ek kyk so na die lys, en besef hoe min ek gelees het hierdie jaar. Sowaar net nege boeke in nege maande, is nogal min…