From the monthly archives:

April 2004

blogging off to New York…..

April 28, 2004

Things are a little quiet on the blogging front here at the moment. The nature of who I am and the work I do means that blogging here is eratic- one day loads the next few nothing! I refuse to apologise since despite the overwhelming (to me anyway!) size of my readership I [...]

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Are you a peacemaker

April 25, 2004

It’s all about forgiveness said Messy Christian in one of her truly memorable personal posts. This reminded me of a sermon I preached a while back on being a Peacemaker which had been inspired by the Ken Sande book of the same name:
In my notes I defined forgiveness as follows-
Forgiveness is
-Not a [...]

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Blogdom of God- pleas for technical assistance

April 24, 2004

Managing the Blogdom of God which continues to grow becomes a headache after a while!
What I am wondering is if anyone out there would either know of a technical solution that would already do the following, or has the savvy to create one.
I would love a computer to be able to do this-
1. Read the [...]

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Scale of African slavery revealed

April 24, 2004

BBC NEWS reports: “The trafficking of human beings is a problem in every African country, says the United Nations Children’s Fund”

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Missional community

April 24, 2004

Am reading the book Invading secular space. Some of my readers will be delighted to know that the book quotes from ‘Unchurched faith’. The book really highlights some of the deficiencies of many current churches. But, instead of giving up on the church it paints a picture of how teh church can [...]

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Leaving the church……

April 20, 2004

These are all quotes from Jollyblogger’s great Christian blog
Jollyblogger begins by talking about a time he discovered meekness (although he didnt use that word).
-Since that time I have found it very hard to be disappointed in another Christian or another group of Christians. This doesn’t mean I don’t have disagreements with other Christians, nor [...]

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Calvin on the unchurched

April 20, 2004

Those who preach the concept of being ‘unchurched’ as a new and sensible response to the apostate state of much of the church today need to listen to John Calvin. Thre were such even in his day, and this is his response (thanks to Jollyblogger)
“Others, again, sin in this respect, not so much [...]

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More on meekness

April 19, 2004

I found this Home Page For meekness:

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Meekness – a reminder

April 19, 2004

EVery now and then, I intend to highlight a quote on Meekness as much as anything to remind myself! Actually I believe meekness is an important attribute of a blogger. It doesnt stop us from collectively trying to improve the positioning of Christian blogs, so that the message gets out. It [...]

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New blogger, New word.

April 19, 2004

A new blogger today introduced me to interiority which loosely means being inside somebody’s head. As a psychiatrist I should be good at that!

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Don’t do it……

April 18, 2004

It bothers me greatly that Messy Christian who today reports she was Depressed in church. Again! is far from unusual among Christian bloggers. I understand entirely her frustrations with church- it very much isnt how it should be much of the time. I fully understand her comments “I believe in the concept of church, [...]

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The Blessing of Sameness

April 18, 2004

Jollyblogger said: “The quiet, uneventful, regular life is the blessed life. I know that sounds so foreign to everything you have heard, but I can tell you that it is true on the authority of God?s word. ”
We crave excitement, and I guess this truth must be balanced by the scripture ‘The steadfast love of [...]

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Telegraph | News | ‘Zimbabwe never had food shortages before. Mugabe has caused this famine’

April 18, 2004

the Telegraph reports ‘Zimbabwe never had food shortages before. Mugabe has caused this famine’: “Food shortages have pushed Zimbabwean prices to unaffordable levels. A loaf of bread in Bulawayo costs 2,500 Zimbabwe dollars, the equivalent of 30p, but also the same as the average monthly pension. As a result, an estimated 5.5 million Zimbabweans depend [...]

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The special relationship

April 18, 2004

The Bush and Blair relationship is a fascinating one, The Telegraph reports:
“‘His friendship with Clinton was obvious and predictable,’ one Cabinet minister told me recently, ‘but his alliance with Bush is a much deeper, stranger thing. It is a clue to what Tony is all about these days.’ If the novice Blair needed to [...]

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