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Christ All Sufficient

I’ve not yet finished reading Christ All Sufficient: Colossians & Philemon Simply Explained (Welwyn Commentary) but so far I’m impressed. I like the Welwyn series of commentaries, they are simple devotional books that don’t wrestle with textual issues so much as point you to how the text might influence the way you live your life. […]

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Do Not Use

10-20-30

Peter has tagged me with a meme asking what I was doing 10, 20 and 30 years ago. Well, I don’t have a diary to hand, but I can more or less work it out. October 1997. As a family we were living in Abidjan where we had just returned from a year’s furlough in […]

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Do Not Use

A Man’s Best Friend?

OK, I admit it, I generally don’t think guns are a good idea. I just can’t see any good reason why a private citizen needs to own a weapon that is capable of killing someone. All the more so, when you realise that some desperado might get hold of your gun and turn it on […]

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Computing/Internet Observations

We got tagged!

The sainted Lingamish is looking for interesting blogs and has asked five bloggers each to name five others that he should read. It’s actually a difficult question because not all of the blogs I follow (British politics for example) would be of interest to Lingamish, but here goes anyway… Phil Prior: Phil really should write […]

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Do Not Use

A New Hymn Book

Sadly YouTube withdrew the video of modern worship songs that I linked to last week, but this new hymnbook might go some way to making up for that. Try visiting the Wenchoster Hymn Book; Hymns Modern and Ancient. There you will find classics like the Australian What a Mate We Have in Jesus and this […]

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Observations

Government Permission Required for Reincarnation

The New York Post reports that Buddhist monks in China have to seek government permission before they are reincarnated. I’m not sure if the permission is granted in advance or retrospectively. China’s State Administration of Religious Affairs announced Order No. 5, a law covering “the management measures for the reincarnation of living Buddhas in Tibetan […]

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Observations

How Much Do You Want It?

No one wants to play in third place play-offs! France and Argentina, losing semi-finalists in the rugby world cup, went head to head tonight in the game that no one wants to play in. No one that is, apart from the Argentinians! They played with spirit, with aggression and with shear guts. At the end […]

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Bible Translation

Literary Bible Translation

There has been discussion about the nature of Bible translation circulating on a number of my favourite blogs of late. However, despite the light and heat which it has generated, I’ve found myself somewhat unmoved by the whole thing. Perhaps I’m getting old, or just plain lazy. It’s also true that the further I get […]

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Observations

Life After Death

Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British army recently gave an interesting talk which showed how his Christian faith impacts on his work as a leader. ‘In my business, asking people to risk their lives is part of the job, but doing so without giving them the chance to understand that there is a […]

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Bible Translation Languages Madagascar

Bible Translation in Action

A few days ago Sue wrote; “I don’t know why I feel so tired”. Well, this video proves that she had earned the right to feel tired. In this two minute clip she isn’t checking a translation for quality – which is the normal consultant’s role – but rather helping the team to produce a […]