Rehash

I’ve been uploading some pictures on to “Flickr” that I have posted before. Basically now you can click on the pic & get a bigger version. Anyway, it gives me somthing to post whilst I concentrate on study.
Fooze
Little Fooze-Ball man from Berlin.

Time after time

Time is running out dear friends. A week and a half & then I will be in exams. I have 5 in total, so there is a fair bit of preparation to do.
To compound my inability to post stuff for you, I have lent my camera to a guy from college for the weekend. He is off shooting a wedding down south. No camera, no time and no energy.
Even now, I had planned to write a big post, but ended up chatting to a mate. Maybe I will just leave you with a poem. A happy little ditty from C.S. Lewis called “Evolution”
Lead us, Evolution, lead us
up the futures endless stair;
chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.
For stagnation is despair.
Groping, guessing, yet progressing.
Lead us nobody knows where.
Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow
In the present what are they
While there’s always jam-tomorrow
while we tread the onward way?
Never knowing where we’re going
we can never go astray.
To whatever variation
our posterity may turn
Hair, squashy, or crustacean
Bulbous eyed or square of stern
tusked or toothless, mild or ruthless
towards that unknown god we yearn
Ask not if it’s god or devil
Bretheren, lest your words imply
static norms of good and evil
(as in plato) throned on high
such scholastic, inelastic
Abstract yardsticks we deny
Far too long have sages vainly
glossed great nature’s simple text;
He who runs can read it plainly
“Goodnes=what comes next”
By evolving life is solving
all the questions we perplexed
Oh then! Value means survival-
value. If our progeny
spreads and spawns and licks each rival
That will prove its deity
(Far from pleasant, by our present
standards, though it may well be.)

treading the grain

I have had a busy weekend. Well, I haven’t done a great deal of stuff, but more than enough to keep me entertained.
Friday night was youth group. It was good times, because we have a bunch of Uni students on mission from Cedarville University in Ohio. They were just hanging out on the friday night & enjoying youth group as it came.
Saturday was a little bit of study, some final bits of sermon prep, and then a beer or two down at the pub with a mate. In the evening I headed over to my minister Darren’s house, where we hung out and chatted. I stayed the night there because I had to drive Darren to the 7:45am service, which means being there at about 7:20. Not my time of day.
After the first service, I managed to pile in 4 guys, all of my gear, a guitar & a major-sized keyboard into the PT-cruiser so that we could all head to the St. Columb’s church. The guys were Cedarvill dudes & they performed, Darren lead the service & I preached!
I hung at church for the afternoon, shot some hoops with the kids & then got the place ready for the evening service, which was going to be a dinner service of sorts. Certainly not traditional church.
The Cedarville people did a number of different performances then I got to preach again! Certainly a different beast! We were expecting maybe 60 people & got in excess of 100! The night went well.
Man, I am aware that this is a very dry post. For that I apologise, but I am feeling whacked after a big day with only an estimated 3 hours sleep last night (which I blame on a combination of nervousness, a foreign bed, Darren’s young daughter who wakes up at night, and the dodgy digestion of some lebanese “kibbi balls”).
Insread, you can enjoy a picture from tonight. This is actually me about 20 seconds before my sermon started. Thanks to everyone who rocked up! Oh, before I forget, a special thanks to N8 & Amy who travelled out from their home church, just to come & support me while I preached. Much love to you guys!
Preaching