Entries from February 2008
Back to the round up
February 19th, 2008 · Comments Off
If you haven’t seen a round up post of mine before, heres a very brief intro. Basically I save you the time I take to follow a few blogs and highlight some posts out there that you might find interesting. So here goes.- Zach Nielsen is suggesting a book "The Drama of Scripture" that helps [...]
Praying for the sick and troubled
February 19th, 2008 · Comments Off
Great Quote from Philip Yancey on praying for the sick and troubled from Donovan Palmer “When praying for a person who is sick or troubled, I try to begin not by presenting a list of requests, as urgent as they may be, but rather by meditating on how God must already feel about the person [...]
Tags: Christian Living
Home and ready
February 19th, 2008 · Comments Off
I am back from Cornwall and back at work. Though that seems a fairly ‘back to the grind’ statement, I very fortunately dont feel as If Im going ‘back to the grind’.Due to the turmoil and change of the last week I have not been able to follow the rhythms of lent with Scot McKnight’s [...]
Tags: My Life
Oliver Foot well remembered
February 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Thanks to those of you who left comments saying that you were praying last week, Ive really appreciated it. I wanted to post something about my friend Oliver who died last week, something I was not expecting and left me shocked and sad. I have been overwhelmed in many ways at the breadth of his [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Miscellaneous · My Life · The World
Checking out for a little while
February 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Yesterday I recieved a call in the afternoon saying a great friend had died that morning in London, it was a shock and I am very sad, Im taking a break from blogging for a few days.Ill be going down to Cornwall for the funeral next week sometime.Please pray for his family and his friends [...]
Tags: My Life
Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day/Mardi Gras?
February 5th, 2008 · Comments Off
I have a lasting memory that while I was growing up we would always cook pancakes today, as is the tradition in the UK, and so in memory of that and to locate ourselves a little more on where we are in the liturgical calendar I thought a little wiki info on the day might [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · The World
Lent with the Jesus Creed
February 5th, 2008 · Comments Off
This morning I was racking my brain for something to do for Lent this year that would be meaningful and not just religious. Giving up things is really not quite the point of Lent as Maggi Dawn expresses excellently: "It’s a common misconception that Lent is about self-improvement. Somehow a half-remembered custom of giving things [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Theology Thoughts · Worship
Vampire Weekend
February 4th, 2008 · Comments Off
There is a real buzz around this band in the UK right now Band here, HT for video: Take your vitamin Z
Tags: Music
The Importance of Learning from those who have gone before
February 4th, 2008 · Comments Off
Something I am always keeping an eye out for is lessons in ministry from people who have run the race for longer than me, it is one of the reasons I read absolutely everything that Jim Martin writes as it just exudes the lessons of experience. Im not entirely convinced we can learn everything this [...]
Tags: Christian Living · Hat Tips
Cultural Understandings: Norways lack of dissent
February 4th, 2008 · Comments Off
As you may have noticed, I was in Norway for some meetings last week and one of the cultural points that was made was that within a meeting members of the same company would not voice conflicting viewpoints with each other. So for example we discussed interpretation of some legislative orders for an environmental policy [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous
