Posted in songs and poems, tagged Jesus, Poem, Stewart Henderson, truth on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I discovered this on an old tape the other day. Stewart Henderson is a genius poet, you’ll have discovered his way with words if you’ve listened to any Martyn Joseph stuff. He’s best at stabbing into the heart with truth, here’s such an example:
“The Bible that I read interprets poverty as sin
I’d like to [...]
Posted in General musings, tagged fun, West Wing on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ok, so everyone* is noticing it, and blogging about it, and being amused by it. But it’s so deliciously fun. I always knew the West Wing was real. One day it would be fun to write an thesis on the nature of being human as reflected by the West Wing. For now enjoy the [...]
Posted in fun times on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thursday is Relay Day. Here they are:
And here’s what we did today. Prizes for which bit of the Bible this represents:
Posted in Delight in the details, tagged beach, bread, danish, fun, neighbours, the Queen on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s four weeks until Easter week.
This week saw the move of Neighbours to Channel 5. I haven’t watched the fair programme for a while now but I am delighted that finally after all the petitioning, Channel 5 have seen sense and you can now watch the Neighbours omnibus on a Saturday. Woop.
Tonight I baked a [...]
Posted in General musings, tagged home, rain, resurrection, sunshine on February 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This week has been a strange one in the world of Hoveactually. Illness has bound me to the sofa, memories of this time a year ago have made me muse, and the constant sunshine has made me smile and think that something might be ok after all.
Things of note this week:
It’s been a year since [...]
Posted in faith musings, tagged advice, CU, God, Jesus, prayer, training on February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here some advice I’m giving at an evangelism training day tomorrow.
Don’t pray.
Don’t talk about Jesus.
Don’t love people, have chats with them purely to win arguments and not cos you care for them.
Don’t enjoy it, it’s rubbish news.
Don’t live it out, get drunk down the bar each night so that people can see it doesn’t really [...]
Posted in faith musings, tagged chocolate, church, enjoy, God, guilt, lent on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Today marks the start of Lent. Which depending on your background might leave you feeling guilty that you haven’t even managed to give up chocolate for today let alone 40 days, for others it’s a general shrug of the shoulder at those Pharisaical Anglicans. At somepoint in the history of the church (if I cared [...]
Posted in fun times on February 3, 2008 | No Comments »
This year I have no weddings to go to so far. It seems like most of my friends have moved on and are starting the next generation of people. What is happening this year is the constant 30th birthday parties that I shall have to attend. I would like to shout along with [...]
