Entries from April 2008

April 29, 2008

Matthew 25

Health warning: This is a generalised piece – it is not meant to criticise people in general but trends in the western church.
I wept for the world today. Does the church realise that Satan must be dancing? When we pray for the world, for HIV patients, for the victims of genocide, for the poor on our [...]

April 28, 2008

Polaroid help

My friend Emma is travelling to Uganda in the summer as a photographer with the charity Fields of Life in the summer and she needs your help. Please read her blog here:  http://emmsy.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/get-involved-polaroid/
I really need prayer and support with my own fund-raising also – please pray.

April 20, 2008

Skegness at Christmas

 

I love the unexpectedness of film cameras. I took a bunch of photos at Christmas in SKegness and totally forgot about them – only to rediscover them when I got my Glencoe photos developed. Love the randomness!!

April 20, 2008

Flickr

Hi everyone. I have just set up a flickr account. There are loads of photos from Glencoe up there so have a gander. It’s http://www.flickr.com/photos/coralfrog/ If anyone would like to buy copies of any of these and help me fund raise just let me know (sorry Emma for stealing your ideas) I was thinking £5??
Also I [...]

April 18, 2008

Photos

Just got back my photos from Glencoe. You’ll see more of them later; but just a few to tempt you…
 

April 9, 2008

Quotes

I got a new book today; its called ‘Red Letters: Living a Faith That Bleeds’ by Tom Davis. Heres a line that really jumped out at me “The only gospe; worth living is one that incarnates love. The only gospel worth giving our lives for is the one that elevates the needs of others above [...]

April 3, 2008

Guess what I’m talking about…

“Architecture, building projects, large areas of urban settlement, over population, mass deforestation, agriculture, ecological disaster, industrial production, organised religion, pollution, malnutrition, epidemics, wars and genocide…”
Yes! You guessed it – the British Neolithic!
“… the Neolithic is where it all began. Who knows where it will end?” - Monuments of the British Neolithic: The Roots of Architecture by Miles [...]

April 3, 2008

Prayer…

Pray for Zimbabwe. Weep for that beautiful country hovering on a knife’s edge at the moment. The people are starving and crippled by AIDS, the breadbasket of Africa, a land of jasmine and mangoes, stars that shine like diamonds in the blackness of the night, cool red tiles and corrugated iron roofs, ‘classic’ cars cherished [...]

April 1, 2008

Lessons learnt from the women at the tomb…

I went to church on Sunday not expecting a life-changing sermon or intimate time with God. To my shame it never even occurred to me… I was too upset about losing that hour in bed. But nonetheless, despite my lack of note-making materials, I was blown away by the power of what was said. (I [...]