all I want for christmas...

48 hours till houses all across Durban North will have a man in a red suit creep in through the chimney to drop off presents, devour the milk and cookies left on the shelf above the stockings and to cry "ho ho ho" as he lifts off into the dark night sky. And no, I'm not talking about me when I'm wearing James Robertson's red skinny jeans!
With mistletoe, christmas trees and carols being the main thing on all our minds at the moment, I've compiled a list of a few CD's and books you can slip onto your late christmas wish-list to santa...

Music:
*Jesus Culture (two cd's out at the moment of theirs, "Your love never fails" and "consumed"...both come with an extra live dvd...very, very cool stuff...include songs like "you won't relent until you have it all", "revelation song", King of glory" and tons more...on sale at CUM and Gospel Direct)
*Jason Upton (he's got lots out and they're all good)

Books:
*John Piper ("Christian Hedonist", "don't waste your life"...read more about him and check out his blog at www.desiringgod.org)
*Rob Bell ("Velvet Elvis", Sex God"...controversial but will make you think)
Anything written by these guys are also winners...
*RT Kendall
*Bill Johnson

One book that I picked up today and which i'll definitely recommend is called "Even greater" written by the mass-evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. It's only 188 pages and it's 12 stories of God doing incredible things around the world, so it won't take you long to read and it won't be any length of time until your faith shoots through the roof...in short, it's a brilliant book if you want to get amped for what God can do through you.

Happy Christmas mates...don't forget about the christmas service on Friday at Northwood at 8am

Gabe