http://stevebremner.com Just Your Average Revolutionary Wed, 22 May 2013 04:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Just Your Average Revolutionary Steve Bremner clean Fire Press Productions Just Your Average Revolutionary | Just Your Average Revolutionary http://stevebremner.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/podcastlogo.jpg http://stevebremner.com http://stevebremner.com/2013/05/what-oikos-meant-to-me-at-my-wedding/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/05/what-oikos-meant-to-me-at-my-wedding/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 18:08:38 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=11103 This is my first official blog entry that I've written as a married man. Not that that changes the content of my blog much. At least, not just yet. But I couldn't help but write a quick thank-you note type of entry detailing a few of the unexpected occurrences that happened in the weeks leading up to May 11th. If you're on my personal e-mailing list or follow me on social media, especially Facebook, you'll have known that my wedding came and went in the last few weeks. Lili and I successfully [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/05/what-oikos-meant-to-me-at-my-wedding/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/the-fathers-manifest-presence-in-class-yesterday/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/the-fathers-manifest-presence-in-class-yesterday/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:14:30 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=11065 I'm starting to wonder if God had the whole thing planned. Yesterday I posted my blog article about "courtesy falls", which mostly had been written over the weekend. It got quite a lot of traffic, mostly from lurkers as few actually commented on it in my social networks. Late Sunday afternoon however, Shaun Wissmann, who I work closely with in teaching the sessions in our Oikos ministry school on a daily basis called me to tell me he'd been very sick and didn't foresee being able to teach at [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/the-fathers-manifest-presence-in-class-yesterday/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/pushy-pentecostal-preachers-and-courtesy-drops/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/pushy-pentecostal-preachers-and-courtesy-drops/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:50:43 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=10987 This week J. Lee Grady knocked the ball out of the park with his weekly instalment of "Fire In My Bones", his column over at Charisma Magazine. It was entitled 9 Bad Charismatic Habits We Need to Break. I shared this on social media to a small reaction by others who got a kick out of it. I agreed whole heartedly with every point he made in the article, with some getting a more resounding 'amen' out of me than others. I think the thread between each thing that charismatics needed to stop [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/pushy-pentecostal-preachers-and-courtesy-drops/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/faith-healing-parents-arrested-for-death-of-second-child/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/faith-healing-parents-arrested-for-death-of-second-child/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:43:41 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=10991 I read this article in the news with shame, which is giving some people an excuse to scoff at faith healing. According to an article on ABC News, “Herbert and Catherine Schaible belong to a fundamentalist Christian church that believes in faith healing. They lost their 8-month-old son, Brandon, last week after he suffered from diarrhea and breathing problems for at least a week, and stopped eating. Four years ago, another son died from bacterial pneumonia.” NEWS: Faith Healing on Trial: [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/faith-healing-parents-arrested-for-death-of-second-child/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/the-imperishable-seed-of-christ-new-e-book/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/the-imperishable-seed-of-christ-new-e-book/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:33:36 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=10933 You may have noticed the frequency with which I've been posting to my blog in the last month and a half has gone down dramatically. That's due to three reasons; my upcoming wedding on May 11th, our ministry school that has just started full time and in which I'm teaching. The third reason is because I've been trying to keep up a rhythm of putting a new Kindle book online once per month. The result is my latest quick read, which is quite different in scope than the previous two on faith and healing. I [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/the-imperishable-seed-of-christ-new-e-book/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/intimacy-with-god-closeness-or-familiarity/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/intimacy-with-god-closeness-or-familiarity/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:34:39 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=10958 Last week in our Oikos ministry school, I was tasked with giving a session on intimacy with God. Fellow missionary and teammate Shaun Wissmann has basically come up with the entire curriculum for our discipleship school, with the oversight of our fearless leader Mark Burgess. Then, they tell me what I'll teach. :) So far, this has worked wonderfully. Since I felt like this is a subject I could approach from the head easily and wanted to make sure I was living it, I tried evaluating my own spiritual [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/intimacy-with-god-closeness-or-familiarity/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/civil-unions-for-everybody-or-nobody/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/civil-unions-for-everybody-or-nobody/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:58:54 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=10915 Exactly one month from yesterday, I'll be taking my vows to marry the hottest Peruvian this country has ever produced. OK, that's not entirely true. Our religious ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 11th exactly one month from yesterday. Our civil ceremony, the only one the governments of Peru and Canada will actually care about, will be sometime in the days prior. Which leads to the lack of updates for this blog in a little while. I've busier than a one-legged man at a butt kicking [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/04/civil-unions-for-everybody-or-nobody/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/called-to-peru-blog-breaking-the-chains/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/called-to-peru-blog-breaking-the-chains/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:56:15 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=10887 "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven..."   My thoughts: Instead of re-inventing the wheel, on nights like last night I just wait for Shaun Wissman to write a post about it on his ministry blog, and then link to it and add my commentary. This week is no different. I encourage you to read his entire account of the evening. There were things that transpired that I didn't know about until our taxi ride home afterward. But what I definintely wanted to draw [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/called-to-peru-blog-breaking-the-chains/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/who-cares-what-rob-bell-thinks/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/who-cares-what-rob-bell-thinks/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:57:49 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=10861 The internet and blogosphere is up in arms yet again regarding Rob Bell for some reason or another. OK I'm being intentionally obtuse when the reason is quite simple -- he allegedly has come out in support of gay marriage, and apparently people are surprised by this as though it was not foreseeable. For some level of context, I encourage you if you have a moment to watch this three minute video that his comments have been taken from. On the one hand, I had some level of understanding what he [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/who-cares-what-rob-bell-thinks/feed/ 0 http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/100th-episode-of-the-podcast/ http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/100th-episode-of-the-podcast/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:17:01 +0000 Steve Bremner http://stevebremner.com/?p=10846 We've finally posted episode 100 of the Fire On Your Head podcast! It's been an interesting six-year ride. Dave Edwards and I talk about the best (and worst) of the podcast over the years and discuss the direction we feel the Lord taking us in the next 100 episodes of the podcast. I realize with the writing, editing and promotion of my latest Kindle books, that my other true digital passion has taken a backseat lately. So here, we're back with a new episode of the podcast -- a milestone episode [Continue reading...]]]> http://stevebremner.com/2013/03/100th-episode-of-the-podcast/feed/ 0