Not getting side tracked

March 15th, 2007

When I started timbrell.com again, I wanted to write about a number of different subjects. These included:

  • Christianity, worship, church, teaching, leadership
  • Technology, the web, web design, development, blogging, Web2.0, working in I.T etc
  • Photography
  • General life things, marriage, my cats, and the general state of my brain.

However, I’m not sure that’s useful to me right now. I want to blog about all these things, but obviously a lot of topics are covered there. I need to focus on what’s important, I need to focus my mind on specific things, not just on my blog, but in my life.

I need to write about Jesus. He’s got to be my passion and my hope, and I have to surrender the other stuff, so I can concentrate on Him.

I’ve let my mind become filled with a million ideas, thoughts and projects, and of course the first thing to go to make room is my attention and my focus on Jesus. Then my bible study and prayer start to slide, it’s a familier pattern for most of us.

I could just stop blogging aswell, I realise that. However, it’s helpful to me, and in the past, when I’ve written useful things, it’s been helpful to others too, so we’ll see what happens.

So there we have it. Watch this space, etc and so forth :)

5 Responses to “Not getting side tracked”

  1. Dave B Says:

    Its good to be a Jesus centred person, I look forward to reading your blog James.

  2. dave Says:

    please blog about passion and zeal in voluntary christian work

  3. Ste Says:

    You are SO right. So oftern we start things with good intentions and for what we think are the right reasons. And soon enough its become about something else.
    I think this is why so many people leave their church or resent it (and the people that congregate there).
    Too many people make church the focus of all their energies and then feel let down when its not all the hoped it would be.
    Our focus HAS to be on Jesus. There simply is no other way to live as a christian.
    James, may you be covered in the dust of your Rabbi’s feet.

  4. dave Says:

    someone’s been listening to/reading rob bell :)

  5. Matt Says:

    Ste reads, watches, listens and models his glasses wearing appearance on Rob Bell!

    Really.

    He even carries around a little white ball in his pocket!*

    (*This is a lie.)

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