From the monthly archives:

October 2004

Self promotion opportunity, broken PCs, work and letting people down

October 28, 2004

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I always promised myself I would not apologise for not posting. I still dont apologise for not posting- this is after all a hobby, and as yet I havent even got a “tip jar” for my loyal readers to help support the costs of running this blog- so I dont owe anyone a post.

At the end of the day this blog still exists primarily for me to organise my thoughts. Due to a very busy time at work (the most since I started there) this haitus started. It was then continued by my PC breaking down, and currently it continues as I am between ASDL suppliers at home! Then my server got changed, so that I am not even sure if this post will appear on the site!

This is a hurried post from someone elses PC. I need to go downstairs and be sociable again in a mo, so this doesnt really count as a real post.

Whilst I cannot apologise for not posting, I am sure that I ought to apologise for not adding anyone new to the Blogdom of God and also for not posting the Christian Carnival. Circumstances beyond my control led to me letting you all down. Nick Queen can I believe add people to the Blogdom in my absense, and for now I am simply reflecting on life without blogging.

I will be back, sooner than you think (I hope!) In the meantime, feel free to use the comments section of this post as an opportunity to promote what YOU think my readers should take a look at whilst I am offline, and to tell me what topics you would like to see me address on my return.

Christian Carnival.

October 12, 2004

in misc

I am hosting the Christian Carnival this week, it will probably be late not least because midnight your time is 5AM mine. So last minute entries are welcome right up until you see the post here. Hope you will all forgive me if I am late as this has come on a ridiculously busy period for me. Prayers for me this week would be gratefully received as I am preaching at the end of what will be my busiest week for a while on a crucial subject (our second in a series on Acts). I need some more grace please…..theres plenty to have of course!

More on the election and US pollitics

October 11, 2004

Bizzarrely, as my boredom with the US election continues to grow, my interest in the US show “The West Wing” has also increased. Tell me someone who knows about these things, does the West Wing in any way reflect the reallity of the US [...]

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When will the election be over?

October 10, 2004

OK its time to say it: I am bored of the US presidential election now. It just seems to go on and on- not like our brief and ‘civilised’ campaigns at all!
I know depending on which side of the fence I am on I should be worried that one of the guys [...]

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Moses: meekness at work and the five solas

October 6, 2004

My sermon notes from sunday are online, I preached on Moses and included the five solas of the reformation. The audio isnt online yet.

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An ex-gay blog

October 6, 2004

Here is a very interesting blog by a chap who declares himself to be an ‘ex-gay’
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Daniel Bedingfield struck by hackers…..

October 4, 2004

Daniel is a Christian suceeding in the secular music world- his CD is really fantastic. You would think that he’d had enough “bad luck” this year following his car crash, but now the headline reads Hacker deletes half of pop star’s forthcoming album from his laptop

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Is 61 a challenge

October 2, 2004

What does it mean to have the SPirit of the lord on you? It means you have a mission to do, a mission of bringing good news to the poor. There are enough poor and needy out there for us to try and bring God’s love to- lets do it!

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Over to you….the readers gallery

October 2, 2004

Look, lets put it this way, I want to know who you are. I know I get several hundred hits a day, and since I am having a mini-haitus at the minute, it only seems fair to declare open season. Who are y’all (and how many of you aren’t simply search engine robots?
So, [...]

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Mc’Cheyne has a Bible Blog

October 2, 2004

Much loved by such great lights as Spurgeon, Mc’Cheyne’s reading system is now available via both the blogdom of God and the reformed blog aggregator. Yet another reason to set one of them as your home page!
It is challenging to our lazy world that it was commonplace among ordinary Christians in a byegone age [...]

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Advice for Americans coming to the UK

October 2, 2004

Hat tip to A New Kind of Christian
“MONEY
The Brits have peculiar words for many things. Money is
referred to as ‘goolies’ in slang, so you should for instance say ‘I’d love to
come to the pub but I haven’t got any goolies.’ ‘Quid’ is the modern word for
what was once called a ’shilling’ – the equivalent [...]

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Forgiveness as a health tonic.

October 2, 2004

Scientists are great at studying and confirming the obvious Science now believes forgiveness is good for your health

Research suggests that forgiveness works in at least two ways. One is by reducing the stress of the state of unforgiveness, a potent mixture of bitterness, anger, hostility, hatred, resentment and fear (of being hurt or humiliated [...]

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