December 2010
21 posts
Make Christmas last a bit longer →
Those of you getting a new iPhone/Pod Touch/iPad will be wanting to download this app first.
When it's ok to use comic sans →
Via DF
The Nativity: Was Jesus Welcomed or Rejected? →
The Jubilee Centre,
Picture the scene for a moment. Suppose when I phoned Dad to make our Christmas plans he had replied, ‘Sorry, your brother and his family have already taken the guestroom, but I could clear a space in the shed at the bottom of the garden.’ This would never happen! Even if the house became rather crowded, the worst that would happen is we would sleep on the...
Abergavenny Nativity →
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about…
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Have you seen The Voyage of the Dawn Treader yet? It’s the third in the series of Narnia films and tells the story of how Edmund and Lucy returned to Narnia and sailed with King Caspian on the eponymous ship searching magical islands for seven lost Lords. Joining them on the adventure is their obnoxious and cowardly cousin, Eustace.
The film is not bad. The effects are good, and the story zips...
Are Fairy Tales Finished? →
From The Gospel Coalition,
Apparently Disney are going to stop making films about princesses because five and six year old girls don’t want fairy stories they want to be cool.
It’s a bizarre exchange. While there are exceptions (and I would quickly say The Little Mermaid is one) most of the Disney princess tales celebrate virtue. Snow White is a beautiful, humble servant of all (even a...
The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Wales... →
From the Moderators blog
Every £1 that is donated will be used to improve the hospitals that our Welsh missionary doctors and nurses established earlier in the last century to bless thelives of the people of north east India.
Pundits Photos →
See what I did there?
Living Nativity →
OK, this is a bit silly but the end was worth it.
Carl Trueman's Christmas Messages →
He’s writing a series of reflections for Christmas over at Reformation 21. His first deals with the paradox of Christmas. (After you’ve read it, see how Inspirer Media said the same thing in video form)
If we are to be rescued and redeemed, we want it to be on our terms, by a redeemer worthy of us: a great and mighty one, powerful in word and deed, one who strikes instant fear and...
Cliff Tumble →
I would love to have seen the meeting where they decided to include this. Also, does anyone do double takes better than Justin?
Faithfulness Under Fire: The Story of Guido de... →
A new children’s book about the author of the Belgic Confession. I’m not sure how child friendly the book is, but the kid doing the narration couldn’t be cuter. Our boys loved it.
Free Cereal →
It’s all about you.
Parents can take photos of school nativity plays,... →
The Telegraph,
Parents cannot be banned from taking photographs of their children in nativity plays at school, the Information Commissioner has said.
“It is disappointing to hear that the myth that such photos are forbidden by the Data Protection Act still prevails in some schools. A common sense approach is needed - clearly, photographs simply taken for a family album are exempt from data...
Christmas at Whitefield →
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Why Johnny Can’t Preach by T. David Gordon (P&R...
T. David Gordon had cancer. He was given a 25% chance of survival. Faced with almost certain death, this Theology lecturer decided it was time to write a book about the thing which had troubled him most in 25 years of church attendance- the answer his wife would routinely give when he asked her what the Sunday sermon had been about. Her reply was usually, “I’m not really sure”.
This is a book...
12 interesting question marks →
Number 3 should advertise next terms Big Questions series quite nicely.
Qatar? →
The Telegraph
There is also concern at how such a relatively small country will absorb around 400,000 World Cup fans. Amazingly, 10 of the 12 stadiums will be located within a radius of just 30 kilometres in and around the capital city of Doha.
Crazy.
Ekklesia on Not Ashamed
The British Humanist Association (BHA) and the Christian think-tank Ekklesia are among those contesting the claims of the ‘Not Ashamed’ campaign, which has been organised by the socially conservative group ‘Christian Concern’ (formerly Christian Concern For Our Nation) and is supported by Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and by Bishop Michael Nazir Ali, former Bishop of...
March of the Unqualified →
Worship Media are giving away 12 multimedia resources over the next 24 days. Theiy have American narrators and spellings but if you can get past that they’re ok.
Today’s is a short film about the types of people God chooses to carry out his plans.
Not Ashamed →
The Declaration
WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is good news for our nation. He is the only true hope and solid foundation for our society.
WE CALL on government, employers and other leaders in our country to protect the freedom of Christians to participate in public life without compromising biblical teaching and to promote in our society the values that are revealed through Jesus Christ and...