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Entries from May 2008

Update on the Chapmans

May 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

Original Post here: Please Pray for the Chapmans. There’s an encouraging account of the memorial service for Maria Chapman is written by Jim Houser here.He encourages us to continue to Pray:"Friends, it was such a difficult, yet sweet time. I urge you now to pray for this family. Be intentional. Set an alarm to go off on [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Miscellaneous · Worship

What is True Generosity in the face of Xenophobia?

May 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Many of you will have heard about the xenophobic attacks which have been taking place in South Africa, largely against displaced african people groups already living in serious poverty. I stumbled across Tom Smiths blog through Scot McKnight yesterday and came across this superb quote about the true nature of generosity: True generosity consists precisely in [...]

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Tags: Justice

Should Women fight on the front lines?…they do in Narnia

May 28th, 2008 · 10 Comments

There is an interesting post about the new Narnia film depicting Susan fighting in the battles when she does not in the books at the CBMW and how the director argues that he want to represent secular opinion on women fighting on the front lines stating: "When the issue of Susan not participating in the [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous · Theology Thoughts

We’ve set a date

May 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Everything is in full swing for wedding planning, we have booked a venue and set a date.28th September 2008Read our wedding blog for more infowww.liamandrachel.com 

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Tags: My Life

Start of Week Round up

May 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Busy Mondays! But theres plenty to keep you busy on this weeks Round up… Intrigued to check out ReadAir, an offline syncronised extension of Google Reader (which is obviously the best feed reader by far!)lifehacker listed the top 10 things you forgot your mac can do. If your a fan of Lost like me (yeah, some of [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Hat Tips · Miscellaneous

Please Pray for the Chapmans

May 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Please Pray for Steven Curtis Chapman and his family as a terrible accident killed their youngest daughter and particularly for their teenage son who was driving, a memorial blog has been set up to leave your condolences with the following message: Maria Sue Chapman, adopted and youngest daughter to Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman, was killed [...]

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Tags: Christian Living · Church · Worship

New Kids on the Blog

May 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Since moving to Aberdeen I have been having some interesting conversations with my new flat mate Willy, all this resulted in me telling him, "you really need to start a blog!" so he did! Hoping he wouldn’t join the list of some of my other failed converts see here, and here, I didn’t add him [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Hat Tips · My Life

Gods History is his own – we may not make it more palatable

May 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off

"Do you want to believe in the living Christ?" says Barth. "We may believe in him only if we believe in his corporeal resurrection. This is the content of the New Testament. We are always free to reject it, but not to modify it, nor to pretend that the New Testament tells something else. We may accept or refuse [...]

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Tags: Theology Thoughts

Electric Guitar Series Worship Series: Amp Selection

May 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

It’s been a while since I’ve written an electric guitar series post, mostly because I haven’t played in months now. A Very sad state of affairs indeed, but since there is no longer any worship band and no amp so there has been no playing.There was good prospect recently when a local music forum I [...]

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Tags: Music · Worship

The End of a Road

May 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Today I will have my last ever exam for the Masters degree I’ve been working on for the last 4 years at Aberdeen University, it’s, unsurprisingly for many of you, on the Theology of Karl Barth. It seems to have been a very long time since I came here to Aberdeen and a lot of [...]

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Tags: My Life · Theology Thoughts · Worship