Big shout out to small group

Mark Batterson, who wrote “In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day“, is the sort of guy who just always sounds excited. Today he changes between being excited about a church plant and posing with his car. Travis is excited about catching a lobster with his bare hands. It’s good fun to read [...]

Missional Life: Being at the margins

Carrying on from my posts on purpose and process, I wanted to drill a bit deeper into the 3rd stage of loving the world. Which, as John rightly pointed out, could be stage 1 or stage zero for a person on a journey towards Jesus and us.
 I set out 4 areas of focus: being at the margins, [...]

What a mug

After my rating on blogging addictedness, I have compounded it by buying this mug.

Hearts vs Barcelona - be afraid, be very afraid

On Saturday I’m heading (assuming I’m better) to Murrayfield, our national Rugby Stadium to watch one of the most exciting football (soccer) matches there has been in years - Hearts versus Barcelona, a pre-season friendly. The Barca team reads like a who’s who of football - they have the toothy man Mr Ronaldinho, the new [...]

God’s Blogs

Just finished reading God’s Blogs, the 19th book I’ve read this year (albeit 6 of those have been in the last 5 days whilst I was off work). I’m not, as was planned, blogging through every book I read but I wanted to mention this one. Because it’s special and in a genre that’s not [...]

Addicted to blogging? Me? Nah……

85%
Apparently I am pretty highly addicted. I prefer to see it as committed
How addicted are you?

Time management

Following from posts a few weeks back (maybe just two?) that I did on stress, and linking to some excellent insights from Mark Driscoll (see his blog for the full 11, including video of him talking through it), I wanted to move on to time. Billy Chia also reminded me this morning of some helpful [...]

Not again Duncan?

Have come down with something again, prob tonsilitis according to my wife. Been off work sick for two days, which is not great. But I have been through 3 more the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series (great books if you want some light reading and good humour, very uplifting) by Alexander McCall Smith. It’s kind [...]

Rob Bell: Peace Brother Part III

This is the third, and final part of my notes from Rob Bell’s calling all peacemakers tour, on which he recently spoke in Glasgow.  Part 1 and part 2 notes are also on the blog.
So Rob pointed out that the Kingdom of God is here, right now, and is present. The message of Jesus is to return (to repent) [...]

Technorati

OK, next question, how do I get Technorati ranking on here? I’ve claimed the blog (dropping back to 1.6millionth in the world from <170k doh) but I can’t find out how to embed it here - it was easy on blogger, you just dropped the HTML straight in.