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Entries from March 2008

Lifehack for Easy-Reading of Endnotes

March 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Ive been reading the superb Tom Wright book "Surprised by Hope" and am really enjoying it. Moving from reading mostly academic theology to something more in the popular realm (though of course NT Wright has made much more scholastic theological treatments elsewhere) has been a nice break, though the one thing that is especially annoying […]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · My Life

McLaren on the Church

March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Andrew Jones had an interview with Brian McLaren on his book "Everything Must Change". Heres a quote from it I thought was interesting, share your thoughts in the comments: I was deeply impacted a few years ago by Alan Roxburgh at one of our events…when he said, the church is like a […]

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Tags: Church · Theology Thoughts · politics

Internationally roaming with an iPhone

March 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Desire for an iPhoneAs I have mentioned before, Ive had a fair amout of experience negotiating mobile/cell phone contracts and have tried to share some tips on the blog before, but recently I have more or less stopped following the market due to my unsaitable interest in the iPhone.I set my current phone contract […]

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Tags: Apple · Music · Technology · travel

Death is Beaten

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

THE GREATEST DAY IN HISTORY The empty cross, the empty graveLife eternal, You have won the dayShout it out, Jesus is aliveHe’s alive - Tim Hughes

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Tags: Church · Walkin the Walk · Worship

Good Friday

March 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

“Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.”—George Herbert, “The Agonie” (1633).HT: Benjamin Myers Also Andy Darling (Stour Valley Vineyard)  has posted a powerful image for Good Friday which is worth looking at today

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Tags: Church · Theology Thoughts · Walkin the Walk · Worship

End of Week round up

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments

UPDATE/APOLOGY: To those reading the RSS feed (who likely wouldnt read this update anyway) I published this before some re-formats and spell checks and so it may look a horrendous mess in the feedreader. …and plenty of it! I have been busy this week, but not to busy to pick up some interesting news, links […]

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Tags: Apple · Church · Hat Tips · Justice · Miscellaneous · Music · Technology · Theology Thoughts · Walkin the Walk · Web 2.0 · travel

Thinking Clearly about Barth’s Soteriology

March 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments

Blogging this week has been a little slow, Ive had plenty at work to keep busy with and am revving up to start my very final piece of work for my Theology Degree on Barth for the course with John Webster at Aberdeen, which is why there has been a sudden splurge of Barth related […]

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Tags: Theology Thoughts

The Conversion of Gorbachev

March 20th, 2008 · No Comments

UPDATE: CT Reports Gorbachev openly denies faith and confirms his atheism while the Russian Orthodox Church says "In Italy, he spoke in emotional terms, rather than in terms of faith," a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox patriarch Alexei II told the Russian media. "He is still on his way to Christianity. If he arrives, we will welcome him." […]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · The World · Theology Thoughts · politics

My Books on Amazon Wishlist

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I tried to get an amazon wishlist plugin to work, which would have displayed the books (and a couple of bits of gadget-ery) on my blog instead of you going over to the poorly laid out, amazon version. But Alas it didnt work, so if you’d like to check out my books on amazon wishlist […]

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Tags: Blogging · Miscellaneous

Yuri’s Night

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Even though our western post-cold war history still recalls the moon landing as a greatest space triumph, one russian fellow was the first to "boldly go where no one had gone before!" Yuru Gagurin, and now there is a worldwide organisation which upholds this history in a day of remembering the first human to ever […]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · The World