Entries from March 2006
Hillsong United We Stand
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
"United We Stand" (Hillsong United)Im sitting watching the bonus DVD of this great album. At first glance I love Hillsiong United stuff, as a musician I love it because they’ve broken away from the 3 chord pap that was churned out in the late 80′s and early 90′s (dont jump down my neck on that [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Entertainment · Music
the cross
March 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
Sorry it seems this blog has devolved into random miscellany…apart from busyness! Tonight after ROADS the kids club in our church, we retreated to our lounge to have some nice red wine and share pages from books we liked. I read this poem about the cross by Stewart Henderson: Strange Way to watch for stormy [...]
Tags: Christian Living · My Life · Theology Thoughts
John Calvin…Calvin and Hobbes
March 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off
Something you may not be aware of is: "The character Calvin in Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes was named after John Calvin. It is thought that this reflects the young male character’s belief in predestination (as justification for his behavior), while his stuffed tiger Hobbes shares Thomas Hobbes’s dim view of human nature" How about [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · Theology Thoughts
Background of the Week
March 17th, 2006 · Comments Off
everyday is like tuesday :) Originally uploaded by tearapen. everyday is like tuesday :) Thanks to Tearpen for this one
Tags: Miscellaneous
Dave Gorman’s Flickr adventure
March 16th, 2006 · Comments Off
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Dave Gorman’s Flickr adventure Very Impressed today to read that UK comedian Dave Gorman has a flickr account, as a shameless plug heres my flickr page that you can pass the time with. http://www.flickr.com/photos/byrnesy/ – mine and heres Dave Gormans (yeah I know your gonna look at this one [...]
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Actors, Politicians and Priests
March 15th, 2006 · Comments Off
I just had an interesting memory: My Grandparent were quite religious (or at least in seasons of their lives) yet there faith how ever much I try to have inclusiveness feels alien to mine. At any rate, my family considered themselves to be a good british Christian family and therefore I was baptised (not christened [...]
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Equality: I liked this
March 15th, 2006 · Comments Off
"In a letter to a church in a region called Galatia, one of the first Christians, Paul, claimed that ‘in Christ’- the phrase Christians used to describe this new reality- there was ‘neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female.’ He is calling the entire culture into question, insisting that through [...]
Snowboarding in Scotland
March 14th, 2006 · Comments Off
Snowboarding in France, Whistler, Switzerland, SCOTLAND!! On Saturday I went Snowboarding for the first time, seeing as we had all this snow I thought it must be criminal not to put it to good use. John (my flat mate and general mover of transport for any such expeditions) was up for it after seriously catching [...]
Tags: My Life
Independent Woman – played by kittens
March 6th, 2006 · Comments Off
Independent Woman – played by kittens – Joel Veitch rathergood.com, music by Elbow I dont normally blog crazy student like rubbish on the net, but this is good for a laugh kittens in flat caps playing destiny’s child songs. Anyway now Ive helped you waste your day…
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Historical Insight on Calvin’s Predestination
March 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off
Today Ive been reading some stuff on the European reformation for Uni, which again Im not at because of the snow. Ive been reading on John Calvin’s time in Geneva [for the sake of reference Ive been reading The European Reformations" (Carter Lindberg)]. If you want an in depth explanation of Calvin’s double predestination is [...]
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