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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: My Life · Theology Thoughts · Worship
