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 has chaned hands over tonights award (nor incidently over the recent ESV blogging– although I think I deserve more than a free bible for those... Read more
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 we can find it massively difficult to grasp a God who created us to glorify him, a God whose true reality is so unfathomably brilliant... Read more
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 by one of my readers) You may remember some funny acronyms for other versions for example the “Nearnly Infallible Version” or the “New Insipid Version”.... Read more
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 God has given him, for this is his lot. Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and... Read more
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 and what this means after a period of “blind” testing. Read more
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 of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy... Read more
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 next up with a great post on how to find Christian happiness Meanwhile Joi cites Job but makes the point that too many christians reject... Read more
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 mistakes along the way. Blogging has taught me a lot- thank you everyone who has been a part of this journey with me. It has... Read more
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 for me. I could use more prayer again right about now! If you want to committ to regular prayer, do let me know it would... Read more
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 our guilt AND heal our wounds, produce the fear of God whilst destroying the fear of man, and many more things. So as The SHEEP’S... Read more
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