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GOODBYE FAITHFUL READERS, As you may have noticed, things have been a little sparse round here of late, everything has been busy and we’ve been preparing for lots of change. One of the things that will be changing is that Ill be sitting in front of a computer with spare time a lot less, and that, alas, means for now, I’m shutting down Byrnesys Blabberings. Rachel and I are joining YWAM to train to work in South Africa, you can find out more here (www.liamandrachel.com) and the reality is, I won’t have time to blog in the way I have been doing for the last few years.

It’s been fun, from humble beginnings on blogspot in my first year at University, now almost 5 years ago (pretty humble endings too)! When I’ve stumbled back to those old posts I really do shiver at the level of written english and some interesting theories and thoughts I espoused. But then again that has really been what’s great about blogging, thinking through things, and having input from others.

As times have gone on, I’ve realised I can’t stick to one genre of blog posts, I’ve mainly concentrated on technology and theology, strange match maybe. I also flirted with music, movies and a of course the good old personal update, where blogging began.

A QUICK LOOK BACK

It wouldn’t be an proper navel-gazing-ending-post if I didn’t take brief look back at a few of the highlights:

Statistically, the following were the top 3 posts, all thanks to linkage and google:

1. Gmail Tricks you might find useful – 1942 views
2. Please Pray for Todd Bentley – 1844 Views
3. International Roaming with an iPhone – 1638 Views

Over the last couple of years, I’ve run a couple of series:

• Electric Guitar Tone Series
• Money is 21st Century Missions Interview Series
• Migrating from Blackberry to iPhone
• Round Ups

Some Important Moments in my life:

• Getting Engaged
• Get Married, Graduate, and be the best man for a life-long friend.

Some Sad posts:

• The Bleakness of Despair
• The Death of Oliver
• Tom Allen passes away

A Few posts that got an unexpected amount of attention:

• The Issues in Christian Political Alignment Part 1 and 2.
• Should Women fight on the front lines, they do in Narnia?
• Google Calendar to iPhone/iCal Sync
• Learning Language and why the french wont speak english to you
• Slavoj Zizek on Christian Consumerism

NEW BEGINNINGS

Of course, I’m far too much of a geek to withdraw from the Internet completely, though this blog is stopping, I’ve set up a mini-blog on the tumblr service (http://liambyrn.es), where the RSS feed for this blog will redirect to. So far it has been a mix of quotes, videos, photos and links to things I find online (along the same lines as my End of Week Round Up posts), there just won’t be quite so many longer pieces of writing.

I’M ACTUALLY STILL ALL OVER THE INTERNET

Details of our work with YWAM will be posted here (www.liamandrachel.com), and I’ve set up a hub for all my sites here (www.liambyrnes.com)

I can also be found at the following social networks! (click on the icons for my profiles)

CONTACT

Send me some email – mail {at} liam byrnes {dot} com or skype username: byrnesyliam

Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration:

Inspired by a vision of bringing artists and craftsmen together to start a movement in art which would change the future of the world, Walter Gropius opened the doors…

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-2):

1. Fleet Foxes (68) 
2. Noisettes (55) 
3. Bon Iver (8) 
4. Incubus (7) 
5. Cold War Kids (6) 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

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““[Much of the church] fears that if the young person, especially in adolescence, is permitted to become acquainted with the world and its lures, he is sure to be lost. This prediction is, in all its intended realism, a lack of faith and a surrender to determinism. If the Gospel cannot call people out of the world, it is no Gospel. If what we preach to our young people cannot call them out of the world, then we must ask ourselves if what we are preaching is the Gospel. If placing people in a context of choice where it is possible to choose the wrong is unwise, then God himself made the first mistake when he created Adam and the worst mistake when he let people kill his Son. At the bottom of it all, this pessimism means placing oneself fully on the level of the world. It means agreeing with the world that all human development is determined by physical and psychological necessities; agreeing with the world that Christian faith is a matter of behavior patterns and of truths to be passed on; agreeing with the world that there is no miracle of resurrection, no miracle of faith, no Holy Spirit.””

– John Howard Yoder, “Christian Education: Doctrinal Orientation,” in Concern for Education, Forthcoming from Cascade Books. HT: Inhabitio Dei

“If we think the church can only be sustained through concerted social and psychological manipulation of our children, then the church isn’t worth preserving. After all, if we don’t really believe that the church lives by the power of the gospel to call people out of the world, we’ve lost the gospel altogether.”

– A thought on Christian-based Education (Church Schools) that may have a point.

“global capitalism is forming a new hegemonic power structure masked in the shroud of economics. This movement toward hegemony via globalization is what Hardt and Negri tend to refer to as the growth of empire. Thus, empire is not just a way of naming the current heights of American international power but rather it points to an emerging global power structure of economic relations that is not tied directly to national borders or localized governing entities. The emerging global empire seemingly belongs to everyone and to no one.”

– Evangelicals and Empire Review – Halden Doerge

““It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man’s greatest good to have everything good but himself””

– Augustine, (City of God, 3.1).