In a match that offered something of a workout to supporters, Scotland just managed to squeeze victory over Italy in the world cup, which means we’re through to the quarter finals. There was a great atmosphere in the Standing Order in Edinburgh, but flippin’ heck it would have felt better if we’d seen some more [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Scotland Victory
Posted in Scottish, life, musings, tagged edinburgh, rugby, rugby world cup, scotland rugby on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Questions
Posted in life, musings, theology on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
hehe!
from ASBOJesus
Change-creation
Posted in emerging churches, musings, quotes on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Over at No Impact Man, a short discussion of how to go about reducing our environmental impact on the world highlights volunteering in a group as a key part of actually effecting change. Makes me think too about how we create change in churches and beyond.
When you’re just trying to save the world in your [...]
Inertia
Posted in Scottish, emerging churches, evangelism, life, musings on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If there’s one thing my dissertation has convinced me of, it’s the need for churches to try more seriously to communicate the gospel effectively in the emerging culture. Being from Scotland has compounded the frustration this conviction causes, as I sit in the pew watching the people around me fail to take the challenge seriously. [...]
Update
Posted in life, musings on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I think its time for a short wee update.
I have finished my dissertation, the title was eventually along the lines of “faith change and emerging churches” and deconstructs the use of faith development models in emerging churches and seeks to understand how they relate to their evangelical heritage.
I’ve been on holiday, last sunday I spent [...]
the homophone song
Posted in musings, video on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This evening, a bit of silly relaxation: I present, The Homophone Song
Dancemat Worship
Posted in evangelism, musings on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some schools in Luton have introduced dancemats into PE, and pupils follow a big screen to do their moves, and the plan is, get some exercise in a fun and non-competitive way.
The, er, dream (?) of dancemat worship is that much closer now, particularly for churches in Luton now. You could hire the mats, stick [...]
Church for people who don’t go to church
Posted in emerging churches, evangelism, ponderings on September 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“More than 70% of people in the UK now have no contact or history with the church. This is just one experimental way of expressing Christian faith outside a church setting. We have a genuine desire to build community; these days so many people are isolated and cut off from support. And we’re trying to [...]
Scotland Victory
Posted in Scottish, life, musings on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I do not understand football, but there is no way you could be in the pub and not understand the incredible victory this evening. Scotland 1, France 0, oh yeah baby… and it puts us at the top of the group B table. Woohoo!
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GD
PTS
Prostrate Trouble
Posted in evangelism, musings on September 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Just after church this evening, after a hymn which talked about the crystal meth sea, the person sitting on one side of me leaned over and whispered, “I see we’ve had prostrate trouble again this evening.”
It took just a moment for me to realise that what she was referring to was the vocabulary in the [...]
