Entries from April 2007
Pastoral Care: Love sees the person not the problem
April 26th, 2007 · Comments Off
This morning I am reading Proverbs 13:3 which says: "Those who control their tongue will have a long life; a quick retort can ruin everything. In Pastoral situations we must do everything to put away our insecure selves, instead preferring our neighbour and their cares, while not taking the burden ourselves but to sympathise deeply. [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church
Encouragement makes the World go around
April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Jim’s tip of the week is Encouragement you can read his post here For some reason I have really been trying to encourage people recently, mostly people at work, but some others as well, I honestly cant say why this has happened, I certainly havent made an concerted effort to do it, but it just begins [...]
Tags: Christian Living
Some Prayer Points
April 24th, 2007 · Comments Off
You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging which such ferocity as I have been in the last few months, well that it mainly because the last few weeks have been busy, not too busy, just too busy for blogging. The main reason is being busy at work leaves less time for coffee, reading and [...]
Tags: Christian Living · My Life
Church called to be More
April 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I have been thinking recently about the tension in church, catholic and local, to critique the things that happen and the things that don’t. In my studies this week I have been set to read Frederik Nietzsche, which even those who have never read him has been made famous by his comment "God is Dead", [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church
Anthem of the Free
April 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments
This morning I took my car into a local body repair, hoping to get a quote and crossing my fingers for the best….The guy asked me first, "Is this going through your Insurance", I said "No, my Insurance excess if £750 because its my first year driving and I cant see it being much more [...]
Tags: Christian Living · My Life
Top Tips for Mobile Phone Contracts Part Four
April 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I havent put any more of these top tips up for a while so here is part four, check out the bottom of this post for links back to the last 3 installments! Theres alway a little more sweetener – Again, the company wants YOU to deal with THEM and whether its retention (starting another [...]
Tags: Technology
My House or God’s House
April 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off
My Class on Christian Ethics today had an interesting discussion on property, poverty, ownership, and theft, which was based around Saint Thomas Aquinas exhaustive text "Summa Theologica", but enough for the academia of it, what really interested and enlivened me was the fact everyone had embodied the spirit of practical theology and really tried to [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Theology Thoughts
April Fools and Google Pranks
April 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off
April 1st…April Fools, My flatmate fraser managed to convince a few people at our church on sunday that the queen was coming to visit after putting it into the weekly newsletter, see here. Google went for a more well thought out prank, and you can see their previous attempts to fool the technology Industry with [...]
Tags: Technology
A Not so Beautiful Collision
April 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
Yes, it happened my first Road traffic accident. Needless to same I am not impressed, but at the same time worse things have happened. If you go to this flickr page you can seen the annotated damage, just hover your mouse pointer over the boxes and a text box will give details of the damage [...]
Tags: My Life
