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OK - there is a bit of a waste of time that I enjoy. Soccer manager It's out now, I've told you, now that feels so much better!! We're in league 1441 and FC Schalke 04 are currently top of the table and available!

It's been a while since I have been to see Chelsea at Stamford Bridge - I'm in the wrong profession !! But a ticket came available for last nights match against Juventus and I treated myself! It was a relief to see Chelsea hang on! Watching the Chelsea subs warm up made me feel pretty old! I'm a bit hoarse this morning!!

I missed this documentary a couple of Christmas

Word Wordle is a bit of fun when you want to do something different with words.

Synthetic-Conventional (The Loyalist) This is a stage that I find a lot Christians identify with. It is a stage where faith becomes a form of loyalty and is influenced greatly by the self awareness and awareness and others. This means that faith is expressed in personal relationships with the like-minded and that consensus contributes to an important sense of affirmation. we hunted as a pack, finger pointing at anyone who offered opinion outside corporately held evangelical orthodoxy. 'Dodgy theology' the most damning of all sentences. This tribal loyalty can lead to too much dependence on thinking like the crowd rather than for oneself, shielding faith from important questions and admissions of diversity. I look back to Christian Union days at university and remember how we hunted as a pack, finger pointing at anyone who offered opinion outside corporately held evangelical orthodoxy. 'Dodgy theology' the most damning of all sentences. Fear of being on the outside preve...

Abbot Christopher Jamison of BBC Monastary fame, was everything I had imagined. He spoke with a quiet and unassuming authority about how and why the church needs to move from being 'locked up' to being 'open as sanctuary' for a society that needs a break. Pointing to the Night Church in Copenhagen he illustrated the power of contemplation within evangelism and without saying that one supersedes the other he illustrated the difference and relationship of 'evangelism as silence' and 'evangelism as amplification'. The time flew by as we listened to this gracious man invest of himself into us. His point is that church has much to offer in the way of silence, virtue and grace No video clips, buzz groups, role play, modelling, art - this was simply someone articulating with intelligence and amazing insight a real depth of character and experience. The time flew by as we listened to this gracious man invest of himself into us. His point was that church has mu...

Andrew Grinnell and Ian Mayhew are starting up a Lent Blog which will be worth visiting I am sure. It is called give up give out Here's their welcome: Throughout lent we are going to be posting a thought, an action and a picture each day. The idea is that we re-imagine the world by capturing something of God's dream for his creation and get involved in making it happen. We want your help as well by sending through snapshots of where you've seen people engaged in extraordinary acts of giving. It could be as simple as giving flowers to a stranger, a random act of kindness for a friend or a symbolic moment where you pass on God's love. Think deep, think hope and think love and then give it out to the world.