one of the ways we amused ourselves on the orange river trip i just came back from was by playing this game that andrew vaughan had made up with i think it was andrew kerr a while ago - it was the game of 'how's business?' and it goes a little something like this: brett: i've recently started a new business andrew: what business is it? brett: we make wind-producing machines out of rice andrew: [...]
so we made it home from the ambassador's youth orange trip yesterday... made it home? sounds like survival talk there? oh wait, it is... the trip for me included a near death experience - or one that felt like it anyway - for me and so i am really glad to be back, and with my the beautiful Val again... all in all it was an incredible trip - a lot of effort needed at [...]
so we made it home from the ambassador's youth orange trip yesterday... made it home? sounds like survival talk there? oh wait, it is... the trip for me included a near death experience - or one that felt like it anyway - for me and so i am really glad to be back, and with my the beautiful Val again... all in all it was an incredible trip - a lot of effort needed at [...]
so tomorrow i join with andrew of vaughan once more (as i did two years ago) and a bunch of youngsters from Christchurch, Kenilworth, to head up to and then down the river of orange (yes, it's my new thing, deal with it!) and i am very much looking forward to it... originally we were hoping that the beautiful val would be able to be there but sadly thesising and her old housemate's wedding will [...]
i kid you not - on friday while we were waiting for our friends to get married, the beautiful Val and i were paging thru a hymnal and we found this gem from a guy called Richard G Jones and the song is called 'The earth is the Lords' - some classic lines here... 1. God of concrete, God of steel, God of piston and of wheel, God of pylon, God of steam, God of [...]
so bible-flipping is not an exact science but when i flipped open mine this morning and it landed on psalm 73, i think that was divinely nudged to the nth degree... 'Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They have no [...]
having had some cool conversations with a geneticist friend of mine (at least i think he would be called that cos he works with genes - are you a geneticist the pevin?) i find it quite exciting when science and God match up (as, according to my beliefs they always will, because i believe that God created science or at least the things that science tries to explain) - i don't like it when people [...]
so they held a photo fail competition for the Get Rid Of Me comp so many of you have been voting for me for and i made it in with 4 of the 6 pics i submitted - pretty schweet... see if you can spot me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_PP-IB5UE%EF%BB%BF
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
i imagine most people in south africa know someone who is from or in zim and so the zim situation probly connects deeply with a lot of us and usually carries a despondent or powerless 'what can i do?' attachment... well i got this email in my inbox this week and this is a way for the church to get involved and just exciting to know what is happening in the heart of zimbabwe as [...]