November 2011
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October 2011
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Book Review: Youth Ministry - A multi-faceted...
Book Review: Youth Ministry - A multi-faceted approach edited by Sally Nash
Having done a Youth Ministry degree through CYM (Centre for Youth Minsitry) I feel that I have studied, reflected and approached nearly every angle of Christian Youth Ministry. Over the last 9 years I have read many books, each with its own stamp and suggestions for good practice. Many of them have been useful, others...
September 2011
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Riots, The Naked and Famous and Fear….
Last month our country experienced a week of fear, uncertainty and shock. Last month our country descended into riots, seemingly led and largely populated by young people. It was a bad week for the UK, and it was a very bad week for young people. It seems that in the aftermath, instead of the governament talking about what can be done, how to improve relations in the cities, they have decided to...
August 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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Apple Win
Apple is paying close attention to all iPad 2 returns during the first few weeks to make sure there are no major production defects. This policy has indirectly led to a free iPad 2 to one customer and an amusing story that we thought was entertaining enough to share. The story comes by way of an individual close to Apple:
[Apple’s] focus this week has been to troubleshoot all the iPad 2s...
Last week I was at Arrow (a church leadership programme) and a visiting preacher shared a part of narrative from a Narnia book ‘Prince Caspian’ I reflected on it quite heavily during that day and I want to share it with all of you….
May this be our image of God, for it is beautiful, intimate and love;
Lucy looked very hard at the trees of the glade
“Why, I do believe...
2011 in music is the year of roots? This is my prediction - and i am excited about it. There are some exciting records being released this year and it looks like most of the most anticipated releases will be showcasing the bands ‘roots’ R.E.M. will be releasing ‘Collapse into Now’ which has references to Murmur and New adventures in HiFi in it, Elbow are releasing a new...
November 2010
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May 2010
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March 2010
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Last night i fell in love with my job all over again - an amazing night at our ‘Free Burger Night’ where all of our church youth cook free food for the young people hanging out on the streets of Dorridge and Bentley Heath.
With around 80-100 young people in attendance the atmosphere was fantastic, chilled out and comfortable, and as i walked around i heard Jesus’ name being...
February 2010
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December 2009
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My top 25 albums of 2009
So it took me a while but here are my favourite albums from this year:
25: Airborne toxic event - Airborne toxic event
24: Miike Snow - Miike Snow
23: Morissey - years of refusal
22: Bombay bicycle club - I had the blues but I shook them loose
21: David crowder band - Church Music
20: U2 - no line on the horizon
19: Switchfoot - hello hurricane
18: Mumford + sons - sigh no more
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October 2009
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Maccabees Philosophy
I went to see the Maccabees the other night at the new 02 Academy and they were great live (their support ‘The Lyrebirds’ were good too) Anyway two stories -
firstly me and hannah rushing to pick our tickets from the box office and a steward convincing us that the maccabees had cancelled and their replacement was Paulo Nutini - we were GUTTED for about 20 seconds when the steward...
September 2009
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Arrow Course?
So i got an email today advertising the Arrow Leadership Course - It said you needed to be 25 so i thought i wouldn’t be able to join - however after some emailing it turns out i will be 25 when it all kicks off in March 2010!
I’m quite excited as i’ve heard so much about it from so many people in church leadership roles - anyone got any opinions on it?! My work are going to pay...
new Tumblr blog thing
hoping this updates twitter and facebook - what is this tumblr thing all about?
New tumblr account
So what is this tumblr business all about?