Wednesday, December 17, 2003

This reminds me of something...



Which is one of the most important "lifeskills" shapes employed by St Thomas' church in sheffield, which I'm at right now.

I'll go into more detail about lifesills at some other point. Not now.. I nedd sleep, and Mitch seems to agree with me on that fact ^^ *waves to Mitch*
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Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That'll be ten ponies, guv. You're the epitome of everything that is english. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack!

How British are you?

this quiz was made by alanna

This just proves my fear that I'm becoming more stereotypically british each day
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Here's a way to waste hours and hours and hours and....
Just take my advice and don't :p

The Dilbert Archive-- 1994-2003

This must be heaven. But I haven't checked it out yet other than checking to see that it was a complete archive- which it is.

It's 11:00. I'm tired.. I think I'll act on that for a change. Certainly can't do me any harm.

God bless you all.
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Sunday, December 14, 2003

How did I know I'd get this...?

I'm a Christian!



Which Enemy of the Christian Church Are You?

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...heh..

is that meant to discourage me?..

Too little, too late :p. Not even a very original or backed up argument of why I'm foolish to believe what I do.

There are so many things they didn't even mention- and they wouldn't have budged me either.

Little do some of you guys realise that when you put down my faith for it being proofless, you are only putting down your belief that man came to be by purely scientific means.

However you can not even tell me how that came to be. There is not a scientifically possible method by which man could come to be, which is known.

"EVOLUTION! EVOLUTION!"

Yeah.. but in order for something to evolve something must be there to begin with. And no-one can give a working mechanism by which this could have happened. Only theories to do with the climate which we can not even begin to prove.

What is my point here?.. well it's this. There is such a thing as objective truth. Gravity is a force which accelerates two bodies towards each other, in inverse proportion to their mass.

We know this to be true- it is objective. Anyone who has watched anything on earth will know that things gravitate towards the ground.

The subjectiveness comes in when we put our own slant on it. Is it 9 metres/second squared, or is it 30 feet/second squared. Actually they're both exactly the same, but in different perspectives. Then there's the question of how does it work- this in't proven thus it is subjective.

You can argue all you like about how evolution over a long time from a cell to a man is proven but at the end of the day all you have is a sketchy fossil record. You know that certain species existed at certain times, not what happened in between.

You have no intermediary species, which ought to be there if evolution is to be true.

Still, evolution may be true- this isn't the actual point- the point is this. Even if despite your lack of necessary evidence of full-scale macro evolution, it turns out true, you lack one vital thing. You can not explain how a cell can come about in the first place.

Don't be under the impression that atheism is a new thing and that science has only recently been used as a means for disproving God's hand in creation. In fact it has been around far longer than you think, and it was far less proven back then.

Your whole argument against God as creator rests on one thing, and that is the assumption that God had nothing to do with it.

When you take away either assumption- that either God was involved or wasn't, you end up with a messy set of results which it's impossible to draw either conclusion from. That means that they don't prove God's existence either.

My point here is not to prove God, but merely to let you know a little of the assumptions you are already making. Assumptions that your idea is true, which when applied to the results make it true, but without the assumption there is nothing.

You want to play "Your faith is based on assumption, not on proof"- fair enough, but remove your own assumptions first and I guarantee you will find you have as little grounding.

Your own faith on assumptions astounds me. Not that I see that as a bad thing, I just wish you'd realise it sometime.
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Thursday, December 11, 2003

You steal my greeting, I steal your sheep quiz!!!

Which flock do you follow?

this quiz was made by alanna

Eh. As usual. I didn't even know how to answer some of those questions:

Music?: anything by U2, and anything else that I like.

School?: Is somewhere I left a while ago.

You're most often heard saying: Jesus/God/Ay up/Innit/Dun'nit

Flowers: Are all part of God's creation.

Favourite place to hang out?: Actually it's usually my house, someone else's house, or other random places not mentioned on the list.

Computers.: Are a means of doing things. Not a lifestyle- nor something which is undeniably evil.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Where Danny= meant to be.
For a while now I've been wondering where exactly am I to be. I started off up here in Sheffield, joining a student cluster. After a while I thought that that wasn't where I particularly felt called to.. so I tried an inner city one.

Though I enjoyed it I just didn't get that sense of calling. Which frustrated me for some time.

But the other day...

CROOKES!!!!

It makes much more sense. Crookes is the more parishy kind of celebration.

I say more parishy.. it's hard to be even a little bit parsidhy without being even more so than the church at Philadelphia. Even though I can get into the modern forms of worship, the less traditional churchy ones, there's just something about that church, when it's actually filled with people who love God, that I really like.

So yeah.. Crookes is next on the list.

Greek 'n' Hebrew

I've started taking Greek and Hebrew lessons with about 5 others on TT, by this guy called Haig.

Hannah really dropped herself in it with his wife..:

Hannah: So how many daughters do you have?
Haig's wife: Three
Hannah: and are they all girls?

^^;.

What are we going to do with her...
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TT of the day: Liz Challis


Originally from: Cheltenham
Lives: Up in Crookes- about 2 miles south-east of here, up a big.
STEEPhill which pretty much starts here and finishes there.
Did TT because: She needed to know God.
Been a Christian for: When she started TT she said that she had been a Christian "always and never", in that she was raised a Methodist but had a hard time actually believing. However she seems much more positive about things now.
Liz is best known for: doing dance classes, and talking about it in TT notices despite getting some stick (not hurtful, more teasing) from Greg on occasion.

Liz unfortunately has very few pictures which turned out well.
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Monday, December 8, 2003

TT of the day: Joe Bean


Originally from: Manchester
Lives: In my house- eats next door. Moved into our house due to noisy neighbours next to his room, but pays all the bills for next door. Eh. It's the same landlord so it matters not to us.
Did TT because: It seemed like a good idea, I think.
Been a Christian for: A while :p
Joe is best known for: Being engaged to the TT course leader, the "chicken story", LRGCC co-director, friends with Tim Hughes (UK-based worship leader)

OTHER PHOTOS:




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Sunday, December 7, 2003

Watchmen
Though you fear the darkness, the things that lurk within,
The watchmen are your eyes,
You need not fear, for they guide you.
And though the darkness, it confuses you,
Though it brings you despair,
The watchmen never sleep, til morning comes
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The word for me today
Proverbs 22:11

"He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend"

the word "gracious", in hebrew is "khane", which means "objective kindness/favour".

Ie. Be gracious in the way you approach people. Reveal the ways in which they need correction but do it gracefully. Do it with respect whether they deserve it or not, because Grace is "a gift which is neither deserved nor earned". Thus to be gracious is to give such a gift. Thus to be gracious in speech is to "give a gift" ie. to respect, even if it is not earned.

Anyone following my posts the last few days on OB will realise that there have been times when I haven't exactly followed that rule.

I repent of that now, and will resolve the issue shortly.
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