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December 2008

29 posts

Dec 28, 20081 note
christmas blessing → feeds.feedburner.com
Dec 22, 20080 notes

I want to get rid of my cold really soon.
Lemon honey and ginger seems to be working a bit.

Dec 19, 2008-1 notes
Slow Down

A little meditation I’ve written for Church on Sunday:

Slow down, Christmas is coming,
don’t worry it will arrive.

The unwritten cards really don’t matter;
you don’t need to fret about presents still to buy.

The office party is all in the past.
The long journey home, on Christmas Eve,
through sleet or fog or freezing rain;

for now, it doesn’t matter.

Forget about Nigella’s, or Jamie’s or Delia’s time plans.
Don’t fret about what you’ll say to Mum, or your uncle, or your brother when you see them,
or about having to be nice for a whole day.

Don’t worry about what you’ve spent so far,
or haven’t bought yet
or whether they’ll like it
or whether they’ll be there.

Don’t worry if this isn’t how your family does Christmas
or if it doesn’t seem right,

or if you just miss them
and this time of year hurts most.

Slow down,
Christmas is coming,
it will all happen soon.

But there is something more.

God loved people like you
so much that he gave his son.

Slow down,  
Christmas is coming

Slow down,

stop,

remember.

God loved you
So much that he gave his son.

Celebrate what he’s done.

Dec 18, 20080 notes
#advent #christian #christmas #meditation #prayer #more
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Dec 18, 2008-1 notes
#video #books #animation
100 web sites → jonnybaker.blogs.com
Dec 18, 2008-1 notes
Dec 17, 20080 notes
“

…if you would meet with God-come-to-us,
you must walk away from everything else,
from every other possible source of security and identity,
into the wilderness.

For in the wilderness, not only do you discover that every other possible source of security and identity runs dry…

…you also discover that God Provides.”

”
—Advent 13 / A light for the Patriarchs
Great stuff from Andrew.
Dec 17, 20080 notes
#more #blogs #advent #christian
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Dec 16, 20080 notes
Pallers → feeds.feedburner.com
Dec 16, 2008-1 notes
Dec 12, 20081 note

looking forward to a night off at home.

Dec 10, 20080 notes

About to be trained to marry people.

Dec 10, 20080 notes
mixed economy and no rowan williams is not tweeting → jonnybaker.blogs.com
Dec 10, 20080 notes
Blur :: Hyde Park 2009 → emi.emreact.com

wow!

Dec 10, 20080 notes
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Dec 08, 20081 note
#bon iver #download #music #video #more
Lectio divina - what’s it all about? → rejesus.co.uk

Great, simple introduction to this ancient way of praying throught the bible from reJesus.

Dec 08, 20081 note
R1Mix: The Prodigy minimix by Herve → downloads.bbc.co.uk

Shared by Ben
Some great album’s in Zaine Lowe’s masterpieces shows last week. Loved listening to Jilted Generation’ and like this “whole album in 7 minutes” re-edit by Herve.

Dec 08, 20080 notes
Form Blogs

A couple of good blogs from other people involved in Form this year.

Hannah leads some of the student work at St Toms and is also on the team helping lead Form with me. She writes really well, particularly about her experiences with God and Church.

Pete is one of our trainees.  I love his blog’s name. He goes for a more current affairs/cultural critique approach.

Its cool to see how much people’s personalities show in the way they write.

Dec 07, 20080 notes
#form #church #blogs
“The same mentor defines training like this: employing appropriate actions within our powers by which we become capable of doing things currently beyond our power, and by which we become people we are currently incapable of being.” —Brian Mclaren: Finding our way again, p. 80.
Dec 07, 20080 notes
#formation #discipleship #training
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