I think I am going to try my luck once more at the Chingford Chess club. I think I need the practice. Mind you chess seems quite a popular sport among bloggers- any other of my readers up for a game online sometime? UPDATE- contact info Venue: Priory Court Community Centre, Priory Court Walthamstow Click here for a map Club night: Monday Secretary: Brian Spear Email Captain: Robin Oakley, 077 529 51299 Read more
Ryan’s Head has posted the text of Baroness Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy at the funeral of former President Ronald Reagan. It is well worth a read. Read more
Stuart preached on this at Jubilee last Sunday – the audio is not up yet- but I had to share his definition of Fellowship with you A group of people joined together by a common vision, for a common purpose. Does that describe your church? Read more
Having expressed her willingness to marry her half brother, he raped her nonetheless. Then deciding he now hated her, he sent her away. At this point Tamar said “this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me” (2 Samuel 13) Does God really hate the separation after a sexual act more than the act itself? Is it really analagous to divorce and God actually hates that more than the sex part? Was Tamar... Read more
Love for God and ones neighbour constitutes the sum of Gods requirements for the Christian. The man who loves needs no counselling. Love cements relationships between God and man and man and man. While love attracts, fear repels. When love gives, lust grabs. What love builds, hatred destroys. With love communication flourishes; with resentment it withers. Love is the ultimate answer to all the problems of living with which the Christian counsellor deals. Love therefore is the goal Jay Adams... Read more
Jollyblogger has responded, I will respond to him shortly! Read more
I recently heard Greg Haslam of Westminster chapel say that as Christians we are left here on earth to cause trouble, to destabilise things. I suppose that is especially true of preachers. According to Greg the task of the preacher is to tell both the church and the world what neither of them want to hear! I am fortunate to be in a church where the vast majority if not all of us DO want to hear what the preachers... Read more
Thomas Edison (thanks to writing to understand) “Why do so many people never amount to anything? Because they don’t think. It’s astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. They seem to insist on somebody else doing their thinking for them. The individual who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life. He not only misses the greatest plesure,... Read more
Ronald Reagan1911 – 2004 Baroness Thatcher tonight led the tributes to former US President Ronald Reagan, who has died at the age of 93. So far, her comments tower above all the others I have read. That is somehow fitting, as their names were mentioned together as much as Bush and Blair’s are today. Their alliance was strong even from before Reagan became president, and it was said of Reagan and Thatcher: ‘It would take a crowbar to get them... Read more
In common with the not so ‘New’ Labour, I guess many people must be ruing the use of the word ‘new’ in connection with church. For many within what is still called the ‘New Church movement’ -even though it started some 40 years ago- it would seem that the wind is going out of the sails. An article I came accross recently on the Christianity + Renewal magazine stated “John Finney, Chairman of Lee Abbey and former Anglican Bishop of... Read more
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