Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!”
O daughter of Babylon doomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who repays you
with what you have done to us!
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!
(psalm 137: [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Where do we put our rage?
Posted in church on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Paddling
Posted in life, video on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My sister made this video of my brother and I paddling earlier this year (i.e. January 2009)! It made me smile, hope it makes you smile too. Or worry for us!
Dance the Blues Away!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tonight, against my better judgement I went a ceilidh after work. Not sure how I’ll feel tommorrow – what with a late night and lots and lots of excitement. But, I am feeling much churpier than I was earlier.
Ceilidh’s have a lot of the things I need to be happy going for them; friends, music, [...]
Death by… Pilates DVD
Posted in life on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I bought a pilates DVD on Friday – if you ask me a fairly modest and measured response to the January blues that seem to be slowly, but very sure darkening my horizions.
I thought, as you might, how hard can it be? Answer. Very. Very hard. After 20 minutes I was ready to stop, my [...]
Reading a Nation’s Foundations
Posted in politics, ponderings, tagged foundations, inaugural address, interpretation, obama on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Returning to the nation’s foundations. One of the themes of Obama’s inaugural address today was returning to the source, the foundations of the United States as key to directing its future. Obama claims a vision to build a nation on the solid ground of the nation’s foundational truths and ambitions.
He sets the context of his [...]
Foolishness to us?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was sort of listening to the sermon on sunday. Sort of. And it got me thinking a bit…
In 1Cor1 Paul speaks of the gospel as Christ crucified. Fair enough. Bit of a reduction, but you can see what he’s doing. And this Christ crucified, says Paul, is a stumbling block to Jews (let’s leave [...]
Video attempts
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
more about “Facebook | Videos Posted by Lizzie St…“, posted with vodpod
Can anyone see this video?
Euro-snub
Posted in EU on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apologies to those of you who have read the bbc news online today, but this is actually hilarious.
The Czech’s hold the rotating presidency of the EU Council at the moment, and had commissioned a bit of art of the European Council building in Brussels. All good, meant to be 27 different artists, each producing a [...]
Speed and Faith
Posted in ponderings on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been reading a book about “slow” recently, basically the idea is that our lives would be much better all round if we lived a little slower. Ate slower, drove slower, tried to cram less in and so on.
One of the interesting observations is that most religious groups recognise that revelation cannot be hurried, [...]
John 3:16 in pop culture
Posted in evangelism on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
How do you evangelise? Think these displays of John 3:16 help. Or not?
Pictures here at Time Magazine
