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 [...]
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 person who gets [...]
Tags: Church · Theology Thoughts · politics
Internationally roaming with an iPhone
March 24th, 2008 · 5 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 [...]
Tags: Apple · Music · Technology · travel
Death is Beaten
March 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
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
Tags: Christian Living · Church · 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
Tags: Christian Living · Church · Theology Thoughts · Worship
End of Week round up
March 21st, 2008 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: Apple · Christian Living · Church · Hat Tips · Justice · Miscellaneous · Music · Technology · Theology Thoughts · 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 [...]
Tags: Theology Thoughts
The Conversion of Gorbachev
March 20th, 2008 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · The World · Theology Thoughts · politics
My Books on Amazon Wishlist
March 19th, 2008 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: Blogging · Miscellaneous
Yuri’s Night
March 18th, 2008 · Comments Off
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 [...]
Tags: Miscellaneous · The World
