As we travel through life we all learn lessons which should inform the rest of our time on the planet – and the longer we live the more we learn. To assist the younger members of the audience check out this list of ‘16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn‘. Read and inwardly digest it or…
“The opaque glance and the pimples. The fancy new nakedness they’re all dressed up in with no place to go. The eyes full of secrets they have a strong hunch everybody is on to. The shadowed brow. Being not quite a child and not quite a grown-up either is hard word, and they look it. Living in two worlds at…
From Urban Dictionary: connectile dysfunction Word of the day…Definition: The inability to gain or maintain an internet connection. The inability to print, email, or get to the internet. Usage:“My computer had connectile dysfunction (CD) yesterday, so I couldn’t check my email.“ Anyone who has anything to do with TalkTalk will know exactly what this is like…
I just noticed today that the t-shirt images on the Threadless page have been broken since I moved my site over to WordPress.com (you didn’t even notice the transition did you?). Anyway, I’ve corrected the problem and they’re now working.I also noticed that I haven’t updated it with my latest batch. Now that’s not a major problem, except that I…
I’m a big fan of Rob Bell’s teaching – in whatever form it appears.His Church has recently relaunched their website and as part of it have now added the facility to subscribe to the Podcast of the their weekly teaching.I remember manually downloading, copying, cataloguing the files in order to listen to them on my way to and from work. …
The latest issue of NextWave features a great article entitled “a Theology of Marriage and Divorce”. Here are a couple of excerpts which particularly resonated with me: From the Creation account we also learn that human beings are created in the image of God. Trinitarian theology teaches us about perichoresis – the divine dance in which the Creator, Redeemer and…
This may seem a bit cheeky to include here, but enough people have asked me “what would you like for Christmas?” that I thought I’d link to my Amazon wishlists. I have two wishlists; one entitled “nice to haves” which I generally just throw things into for my own benefit, and one entitled “Youth Ministry Resources” which features books directly…
If you asked twenty good men what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply ‘Unselfishness’. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, ‘Love’. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philosophical importance. The…
As I’m about to enter my last week of employment, I’m thinking about finances over the next three years (at least). Here are a few useful links to basic financial advice for students which may be helpful (all from the Student section of MSN Money). Five ways to make your student loan last Saving money on your bills Simple ways…
I had always intended to have a final pre-Uni splurge on T-shirts from Threadless, and their latest $10 sale came at exactly the right time! So here are the new t-shirts (also now featured on my Threadless page).
Let this be not of our hands, but by Your SpiritNot by power, not by strengthBut through Your Spirit and by Your graceIf it’s on our hearts, we’ll be on our faceNot of our Hands – To Those Who Cry – 1000 Generations