April 2005

Warnie award shock as 10 day old blog walks away with gong

April 19, 2005

In amazing turn of events a prestigious blogging award has gone to an outsider who only began blogging TEN days ago! “Has Adrian lost his mind?” the blogosphere is asking tonight. “Did he have one in the first place?” the detractors may well ask. I can assure you that unlike certain election bloggers no money [...]

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Ps 30, More on Christian Joy and the Blogger Challenge

April 19, 2005

Well, the Blogging challenge is continuing to cause a steady trickle of interest. Previous entries can be found here and here. Today, one blogger asks “Can a Christian be TOO happy?” meanwhile an excited blogger (who is about to get even more excited I suspect) writes- The Christian world has become so severely man-centred that [...]

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Free ESV bible

April 19, 2005

The kind folks at the ESV blog are wanting to give away a free bible to the first 100 bloggers who link to their new blog in their blogroll- act quickly if you want one! In the meantime, I thought it might be fun to play acronyms with the letters ESV (actually it was suggested [...]

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Eccl, Christian hedonism and some more challenge entries

April 18, 2005

Following on from my thoughts yesterday about contentment and enjoying riches, this passage in Eccl really made me think- “Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that [...]

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What social style are you?

April 17, 2005

Am developing a questionnaire, and would really value your help with it. Please download it the questionnaire itself complete it then let me know in either an email or as a comment to this post the total number of each letter results you chose. (ie A=10 B=5 C=1 D=0 etc) I will explain the scores [...]

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Godly attitudes, humility, peace, contentment and the error of the "word of faith" or prosperity gospel

April 17, 2005

At risk of causing offence to some, I have to say how relevant to today I find these words from the ESV Bible’s version of the McCheyne reading plan where today we read 1 Tim 6: “Teach and urge these things. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words [...]

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Blogging challenge : Christian hedonism the first entries

April 16, 2005

The first few entries in the blogging challenge on Christian hedonism have come in. Rumours of prozac has taken an interesting slant, sharing the pain that he has felt encountering death. He seems to suggest that finding joy in the midst of suffering is sometimes a step too far. One of my favorite blogs is [...]

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Happy blogiversary to me- this blog is 2 today!

April 15, 2005

Well, I suddenly realised that it is now two years since I began my blog wondering if anyone would ever read it, and mainly writing for myself and my family. It still amazes me that people read this thing. I feel much richer for the experience-I have learnt a lot, and yes I have made [...]

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Please pray for us!

April 15, 2005

Callmeteem said not to link to this post where he offers a prayer for Christian Bloggers, but I was so moved by it that I am going to ignore his request and link anyway. A couple of weeks back I had a great week and suddenly remembered a bunch of you had offered to pray [...]

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The simple gospel debate continues…..

April 15, 2005

After 2000 years you would have thought that we christians would have at least agreed on what our message is by now! But perhaps our disagreements are precisely because of the glorious riches of the gospel which DOES in my view both give us a sense of purpose AND deal with our sin, both remove [...]

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Will the French say "non" to the European constitution?

April 14, 2005

It seems as if Tony Blair does begin a historic third term as labour prime minister it is possible he may be saved by the French! It is not clear if Blair is relishing another challenging electoral battle to support the European constitution in a referendum,but the French may make it unecessary. In an amazing [...]

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Blogging challenge : Christian hedonism

April 14, 2005

Please humor me as I try out an idea I have just had. I wish to lay before you a blogging challenge. The reward in this challenge will genuinely be in the taking part. Anyone who completes the challenge, and sends me an email with a link to their post will get a link in [...]

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An ESV Kids bible is on the way…..

April 14, 2005

How can we wait till early 2006 for this which is announced on the official ESV website…… This much-anticipated Bible combines the complete ESV Bible text with fifty-two four-page, full-color, illustrated Bible study helps for kids. Each includes: The Story; Message; Things to Remember; Verses to Memorize; How Does This Apply to Me?; and Where [...]

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Jollyblogger endorses the ESV "with qualifications"

April 14, 2005

You can always rely on my American blogging alter-ego to say almost the same thing as me but more politely and measuredly (hey isnt HE supposed to be the Yank and me the BRIT???) So, whilst making room for those who disagrees David points out that he too is largely reading the ESV now. Meanwhile [...]

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My friends labour’s so-called "rent a mob"

April 14, 2005

Well, prooving that the press has too little to talk about it seems my dear friends the Virgo’s have created a stir by accepting an invitation to breakfast. Knowing them as I do, I am sure there was nothing more sinister than the desire to thank their local MP who helped them get a council [...]

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Listen to why Piper uses the ESV

April 13, 2005

Acording to Piper the ESV strikes the best balance between being excessively literal and being too much of a paraphrase.

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UK Elections "to decide world political course"

April 12, 2005

According to Mark Byron on the Spero News site our elections will decide the worlds political course. I am flattered, but not quite sure that this really is the case. Mark overestimates the importance of our little island off Europe and of any likely outcome. But, I can only assume that he refers to the [...]

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ESV Bible Official Blog

April 11, 2005

Partly prompted by the recent surge of blogging on the English Standard version, the makers have launched their own official ESV Bible Blog

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Books every Christian should read: Spurgeon’s Sermons

April 11, 2005

The Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit and New Park St Pulpit include 3200 sermons by Spurgeon and are one of the marvels of English language publishing. Widely believed to be the greatest English-speaking preacher ever known Spurgeonexpected to win souls with every message. His preaching created a stir in Victorian England and beyond. He was every bit [...]

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Star Trek Medical Scanners here we come

April 9, 2005

BBC NEWS reports that “Hand-held gadgets could be used in the future to take 3D scans showing tissues inside the body” but as usual SciFi got there first!

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