I recently had a near death experience in a mercedes! Herzlich Willkommen bei Mercedes-Benz – Welcome to Mercedes-Benz says the website. Welcome to the afterlife thought I! Having had the car for 4 days as a company car from my posh new job (no I didnt choose to have a merc- I wanted the Jaguar X-type but someone else got in their first!) it nearnly killed me! Picture the scene, M25 at 6-50am (I am missing the traffic that way-... Read more
There are some wild ideas about a ‘Smart’ hospital to improve care. Hey if I was still in the NHS I would be happy if I even had access to an email system or the ability to look at electronic journals online! Amazingly enough most hospital doctors dont even have access to PC’s on their desks. Amazing to think that something as high risk as reading someones dodgy handwriting is still relied on for medicating out sickest patients in hospital!... Read more
I wonder why it is that issues of childbirth and contraception seem to cause more heat than light with all of us? Having just had a debate about what exactly is the mode of action of the pill (why should that be of interest I hear you say!) and the morality of having lots of children, no children or just a few I thought I’d have a look at the CMF website to see what the Christian Medical fellowship of... Read more
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. –Indira Gandhi taken from The quotations page Read more
For many of us work seems like a curse and is something that we endure in order to earn money so we can do other things. I am not convinced that should be the case. Can we all get a job we love? I’m not sure but if we are realistic maybe we can get close to being in a job we love. Certainly I am hoping that my own change of direction- starting tomorrow- will prove more ‘me’ than... Read more
The Shifted Librarian Reports “The following message won a competition sponsored by Ship of Fools, an Internet magazine, to rewrite teh Lord’s Prayer for the mobile phone using 160 characters or less. dad@hvn,ur spshl.we want wot u want&urth2b like hvn.giv us food&4giv r sins lyk we 4giv uvaz.don’t test us!save us!bcos we kno ur boss,ur tuf&ur cool 4 eva!ok?” This is a useful test of how young you are! If you understand all of it then your thumb is probably... Read more
As usual the best humour is in atrocious taste and entirely accidental.. This advertising campaign was planned before SARS but since breathless is a major symptom of SARS to say this is unfortunate is an understatement! Hong Kong’s ‘breathless’ ad campaign Read more
A couple of months ago I preached on meekness this was a message that certainly challenged me. I was reading in Philipians this morning the following passage which to me seems like a commentary on meekness. I love the bit about counting others more significant and concerning ourselves with their interests also. It is rightly a famous passage. If we all lived like this what a better world it would be! Bible Gateway : PHIL 2; 1So if there is... Read more
A nice thought, which according to quotesblog comes from G.K. Chesterton | “”Christianity has died many times and risen again, for it has a God who knows the way out of the grave.” Thanks QuotesBlog even if it wasn’t the man himself its a great quote for these times of closing churches (and new ones being started!!!!) Read more
I asked previously Will my faith save me? in response to this my email correspondent stated. Further to your reply – it still looks like salvation by effort to me. Unless you are saying the Pastor never accepted the work of Jesus on the cross as a substitute for all his past, present and future sins. It looks like this indeed may have been the case. After all when told he was going to hell his answer did not include... Read more
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