Categories: funny

• bad harmony

  Did you hear that three-piece squawk painfully on weekend TV? Did you see the shame and courage, the attempts and the misery that the early episodes of the X-factor (inevitably) induce? They are incredible (mad-bad-incredible!) examples of what happens when you surround yourself with people who are not wiling to speak truth. Do you reckon each one of these people sat with friends and family and belted out those songs: that  someone actually heard them and then said, “That’s so [...]

• Rev. and that….

  I’ve really enjoyed Rev right from it’s tv-start… and I’m always prone to comedy but this rarely co-exists  with faith! The Vicar archetype has long been a staple of British Comedy for years, so it’s relativity familiar territory for the viewer. Yet here in Rev Rev Adam Smallbone is a grittier, less pious, more realistic representation of the model, and the show is based deep in urban London, away from the pastoral idyll settings we so often see televisionally-representated! At [...]

• contextless links

  You’re the offspring of eternity, if you know Jesus! Take heart! Divided about how you see God, yet very united in relationship….! It is wonderfully possible? Ways to fight loneliness in leadership,…… Great writing advice from CS Lewis! Brilliant holiday advice: re eating and sleeping ratios! Gordon McDonald, offers a way to debrief with God and stay connected…. Eugene Peterson’s timeless wisdom living from Jeremiah! John Piper’s epic advice to emerging leaders… The LICC’s very helpful discipleship blog-conversation Mark Driscoll [...]

• ,….really?!

  I saw this recently,….. imagine being the receptionist,… “Hi, it’s……!!”

• contextless links

  A possible sound-effect for church stimulis, world-cup inspired?!! Church ‘death’ always (but rarely) produces Kingdom life! A great merger story…. Truly as Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote: “One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.” A glorious global phenomena, only in London! Great concept! A few more of my recent book-reviews, are posted on Amazon: very many-more too follow…. Andrew Murray’s brilliant Surrender-writing and other goodies, free on pdf…. In my tea-drinking life,… was amused at this Metro story,… [...]

• random ruminations

  best cv info-format? stunning pizzicato work on my favourite instrument, all bias aside! A compelling community sharing resource,…. Discerning God’s call…… Jack rocks, Logan is tortured,… but the end is here for 24: series 8 definitely the best! Precious visuals from ’60′s CCM,….. a giggle indeed God’s word ever-secure! DA Carson quote…. Frugality is a challenge,… some sugguestions!

• a favourite moment

  today…… I was driving with my one and only daughter, singing along full-tilt with the radio on, and the very very special lyrics of a Beautiful South song, came on…… ” i love you from the bottom of my pencil-case!!” and though impossible for some to believe, it’s a real song!! Listen here!! Great to sing and very easy to mean, with all my heart! Precious….. ,….. and out of parental equality, on downloading Angry Birds with Noah for his [...]

• contextless links

  The Tall-Skinny-Kiwi’s guide to attending church without embarassment! A Twitter-based Easter challenge for those who tweet! Great truth:- Generousity is what keeps the things I own from owning me. A funny dilemma that is surely worthy of eternally-pet-consideration?!! Faith journeys is a helpful partnership project worth a look…. Ouuuuuuuuch about this new face-representative….??! surely not?! Five Big Issues facing the western church, according to Tim Keller. Challenging but utterly realistic stuff….. and the Redeemer response: the priority of church to [...]

• random ruminations…..

  Single-minded and unhappy? Duke discusses… Bible Fresh; 6XT’s and the 30th March at the LICC Ipod fast, not chocolate this Lent? Tim Kellers Church-planting London lectures all in pdf format Reasons we’re slack in our bible reading: An EA resource Consumerism gets us all, but with these testamints you get a whole other league of option!! A perennial question:- Do pets go to hell!? Is Twitter, really, a leadership tool? ….. and this genius summary from Dallas Willard:- ” The [...]

• contextless links

  How an iPhone app made a life-saving intervention in Haiti! Wisdom from an older and wiser voice….. If you could have real virtual church; is this what you’d want it to be? Death within churches from the top down; Marcus’ great article and challenging questions,….. worth your time. Incandescence: and God’s call in our lives! How about sermon length…? What about it! What church leaders might learn from the Apple genius: Steve Jobs?! The Happiness Machine, c/o Coca Cola! and [...]