Read Dan and find out: “The world is dominated by a single economic and military superpower. Her armed forces are several times bigger than the nearest competitor. Her multinational corporations dominate the global economy. Her culture, technology and ideas have been spread across the globe, as has her political influence. Yet, there exists an underdeveloped region of the globe, which, despite having vast natural resources, lacks much of the economic and political infrastructure of the more developed nations. This region... Read more

Someone has described my blog as a parent blog! In What If I Stumble blog I am listed as what I guess is essentially a blogfather. I feel honoured but concerned that this blogger feels ‘unworthy’. The blog is well worth a read and as I said in the comments over there- Trust me I would be honoured to stand near you! Its possible to be too ‘humble’ you know. Some Christian circles honour some leader-types too much. Remember in... Read more

Jollyblogger quotes The Golden Rule “Do unto others as you would have them due unto you.” He then goes onto quote The Golden Result “People usually do unto you as you have done unto them.” He explains “When someone treats us badly we ought to begin resolution of the conflict by examining how we have treated them.” So essentially all too often whilst we feel self-righteous and an ‘innocent victim’ we are in actual fact simply reaping what we sowed.... Read more

There are many points of transition in ones life when age begins to catch up with you. Somehow the fact that my oldest daughter only has two more weeks left in infants school is one of those moments when I feel I am loosing the race to remain young. It is right up there with the first grey hair, becoming a parent, and giving up looking after the university students from Middlesex for my Church (I handed on the responibility... Read more

Thanks to Antioch Road for this one. These new 3D ultrasound pictures are amazing and surely help to give the lie to the idea that a young baby is simply ’tissue’. The BBC has a slideshow Read more

Our ever generous host over at The Truth Laid Bear: says: “I know what the problem is. Remember (scroll down), I recently changed the Ecosystem to retrieve a blog’s name from the TITLE attribute. Well, at least one blog in the Blogdom of God has some funky HTML code embedded in their TITLE. Dunno which it is yet, don’t have time to check myself. But I’ll bet you a dollar that’s what is screwing up the blogroll results. So: Track... Read more

Jollyblogger has been shamelessly promoting Ken Sande’s book the peacemaker and speaking of adapting much of his material. Well I have been there too, and preached on ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’ I was able to construct some useful acronyms such as that forgiveness means to ‘DROP’ something- refuse to dwell on it, prevent it from effecting your relationship with the other, promise not to talk with others about it (there may be limits to such a promise of course- eg... Read more