Sketching Blogadded - Oct 6 2010 added - Jul 31 2009Back from a few days at New Wine working with HoverAid, a small charity with one big idea - that hovercraft can be used to overcome the very basic problem of travel to and from certain remote rural communities. Currently operating in Madagascar, terrain too wet for land based vehicles and rivers too shallow for boats, HoverAid are able to move aid workers and equipment around in their specially designed hovercraft on the rivers providing highways around the region. HoverAid have been described as the Samaritains Donkey. Take a look at their web site, maybe you would sign up to their newsletter as a start of your support for their work. Take alook at www.hoveraid.co.uk About links from the margin
You are sitting here at the HomePage, the doorway to my notebook on the internet.
At the My Testimoney page you will find news on what is so important to me about my life as a christian. I occassionally update this page as obviously being a christian is all about a living faith, we don't live in the yesterday, but should be living our faith in the now with folk sharing our community space and our world. I spent some time putting together a presentation for my HomeGroup telling them why I find prayer so important. This is represented on my Prayer page, do read through and see if you think likewise. The Links page could be described as a holding page for places I have or currently regularly visit. As with the other pages this is ocassionally added to, but I rarely remove links unless of course they become void. This means I do not need to clog up my puter with MyFavourites, and I have somewhere I quickly access my regular haunts when I am away from my own puter. Also useful for time away from home, if I have internet access I can visit this page for a Daily Scripture. The linked site is not the only to provide this service, but is very usefull when I want to get online to a bible quickly. Courtesy of the Medical Research folk in Cambridge, I had the pleasure of snoozing in a Brain Scanner. See the resultant picture of My Brain here. Random is where old posts from this page may go to die. Some of you may have visited these pages from St Pixels. At one point I was a regular Service Leader, but for one reason or another my appearances at St Pixels have slowed down. Nothing negative about St P's, but I find that I am able to get online at the right time a lot less nowaday. Friendships I grew at StPixels are most valued and treasured in my heart as was the fellowship and worship there. On the Reading & Thought is my very last Reading I talk I gave there. Maybe I will be able to get back again sometime. Blank; Just where does a Blank link lead one to.  Form submission temporarily removed, it only ever sends me blank messages! Need time to scratch my head and think about it. |
Isaiah 55:9-11
added Sun 19th June 2011 9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth - and making it bud and flourish, yielding seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. New International Version Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica Lord God, May we all seek to plant your word in our heart, inspire us through your Spirit. Father give us strength, courage and wisdom to follow you, listen to and understand you - and to be your servants willingly, so that through us your word and promises may return filled and filled again. In Jesus name we ask, AMEN  Tombstones and Banana Trees
added Wed 27th April 2011 To be published July 2011, I have just finished reading an advance copy of Tombstones and Banana Trees, a story of revolutionary forgiveness. ISBN 9780781405027 Published by David Cook "My story changed beyond all recognition. Everything that was made ugly by pain and anger was turned to beauty by one simple, revolutionary thing - forgiveness." Medad Birungi Happy Easter Folks added -Fri 22nd April 2011 I have doodled an animated gif as an Easter Card  Mystery Monk added -Mon 11th April 2011 Join me in following the adventures of Mystery Monk. 
Ready? added - Thu 22nd Oct 2010 Re enacting a tragic story from Burundi, this short film highlights the urgency of the gospe to be ready to meet our Maker.... "The Gospel is the greatest news in the world. But it only becomes Good News once we have dealt with the bad news and maybe we can only realize how good the good news is in light of how bad the bad news is. The concept of hell is so desperately bleak that we must be willing to be broken by it. Lord, forgive us for looking at the world with dry eyes." Francis of Assisi said... added - Thursday 21st Oct 2010 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. Sorted Magazine added - Monday 18th Oct 2010 Hot off the tickertape, New edition of Sorted Magazine out today. Defining Church added - Oct 17th 2010 Wandering the WEB today has made me wonder what the deffinition of 'church' is. Ask many folk in the UK today and they would probably point to the nearest traditional built church building. A lesser number of people may suggest the conngregation within comprise the church. There are many churches nowadays renting premises by the hour, or meeting in their own houses. Emerging churches on the internet, see St Pixels, i-Church to name but two, then today I heard a biblical podcast based messages ministry defining itself as church. Define christian CHURCH,
added - Oct 21st 2010 I have thunked... it is the wrong question to ask. We do not want to act out our faith in church, we should live our faith in or lives. added - June 21st 2011 Maybe not the wrong question, the wrong deffinition of answer... The christian church is a community of believers in Jesus Christ as Lord, who died in our place spending time in hell, then rising again from death and ascending to His Father in heaven. We are a community of believers promised a place with Jesus in heaven. As believers we should take a christlike and often sacrificial attitude to living in community amongst our neighbours. Revelation 3:20 (King James Version) added - Oct 14th 2010 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. As an obstinate teenager I believed Christ's mesage through the Gospels, but thought Christianity an arduous task to complete. I realised maybe I would accept christ in at some point, but... This verse reminded me Jesus would not come striding into my life un-invited, riding in on his white horse at the last minute to save me - he wanted to come in there and then - and it was UP To ME TO OPEN THE DOOR AND LET HIM IN A Merry Heart... added - Jan 6th 2010 Proverbs 17:22 a merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit drieth up the bones Enough beer for a month, I do like the aftermath of Christmas, and today I have even been brought a bottle of beer bearing my surname from the local Manor. I will enjoy... Amongst the other consumable Christmas gifting coming my way this Christmas was some fantastic Port (I fell in love with Port at Tim & Natalie's wedding where Port was served in lieu of Champagne for the Toast. I deffinitely approved.) and some elven like Fudge, which to me took on the form of Lembas or WeyBread which the Hobbitts used to give them strength and energy on their journey. Just a wee sliver at a time - it will take some time to dissappear. 27th April 2008 In a recent email I received a quote from John Piper, "Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for... But what have millions of Christians done? We have stopped believing that we are in a war. No urgency, no watching, no vigilance. No strategic planning. Just easy peace and prosperity. And what did we do with the [prayer] walkie-talkie? We tried to rig it up as an intercom in our houses - not to call in fire power for conflict with a mortal enemy, but to ask for more comforts in the den." My friend went on to say, ....but I suspect many of us need a good kick up the backside in terms of complacency and priorities. I know I do, and often! It's so easy to get distracted and caught up in things of little eternal significance. The battle is raging, but are we even engaging? " Harsh words, but I think we, as christians are well in need of a wake up call as to what our faith is about. Thanks for the timely email S. 8th April 2008 I used to wander the decks of The Ship of Fools, Magazine of Christian Unrest, and still occassionaly creep back on board to see how my old friends are doing. Delighted to congradulate them on their 10th Birthday (or 30th Birthday offline). Happy Birthday Ship of Fools. Links, Ship of Fools, and a 10th Birthday Interview with Premier TV
17th Oct 2007
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