Byrnesys Blabberings

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 us are still hanging on) then check out Jorge Garcia’s (hurley) blog, a few good tips on up and coming lost episodes!

Scot McKnight talks about the evangelical manifesto and how the term evangelical is ecumnical not primarily confessional or as he puts it: Evangelicalism is essentially “gospel ecumenism” instead of “theological conformity.” Evangelicals unite around the gospel but tolerate all kinds of diversity theologically. Thus, from the time I’ve been around this theological issue — and I began reading this stuff in the 70s and have not stopped — evangelicalism has agreed to agree on the basics — the gospel — but has been willing to let theological confessions be what they are: church confessions for local congregations. Instead of haggling over theological confessions, evangelicals have agreed to agree on the gospel.

Also the Jesus Creed’s Pastors Wisdom series has been excellent, check them out here. 

There is going to be a HUGE evangelical conference in June at Princeton on the topic of "The Gospel, Politics and the Future" called Envision 08. "The conference aims to unite evangelicals and mainstream Christians in a conversation about how the gospel and politics interrelate in the current American context." There are 60 Speakers, yes, 60! Including:Shane Claiborne, Brian McLaren, Miroslav Volf, Jay Bakker, Bart Campolo, Rich Cizik, and Jim Wallis. I would like to be around for that, will anyone be blogging it?

Discerning Reader writes about how to order and manage your reading.

I finally got in touch with the seller of the amp I mentioned and picked it up last night before he could fall off the radar again, my guitar is still in a practise room about 50 miles away so I need to get hold of it before I can let you know what I think, meanwhile feel free to read this review. 

The Archbishop of York leads hundreds to Christ in Scotland.

Jason Clark asked about where all the UK Bloggers had gone and a few ones I hadn’t seen before were mentioned in the comments, check it out if you want to read more UK based blogs.

Police beat up defenceless woman – Its not quite as bad as it sounds, this actually is the tabloid-esque headline from the BBC’s political commentator Nick Robinson referring to the reaction to the Home secretary at the Police service union event, I saw the video of the opening speech and it was painful.

Zach Neilsen hosted a Worship musicians training event and is posting the videos on youtube.

John Piper just wrote 4 books in 4 weeks, whatever you think of him, that is seriosuly impressive. 

ESV site has a list of RSS feeds to read the bible in a year, this will more than likely be the best way for me to do quantative bible reading.