If the ministry is reduced to being primarily a helping profession then those who take up that office cannot help being destroyed if they have any integrity. For they will find themselves frustrated by a people not trained on the narrative of God’s salvation, not trained to want the right things rightly, but rather a … Continue reading »
Brothers and sisters, we are not professionals. So says Piper.* But we are. Or, at least, I am. I am a professional. After an idyllic three years at the ‘right’ university I walked into a job with a top three City law firm. And there began my professional training. I became a professional. In ways … Continue reading »
Almost all good writing starts with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something – anything – down on paper. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft – you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft – you fix it up. … Continue reading »
Redesigning the look and feel of The Art of Steering was fun today! Long overdue, it has been something I wanted to try for ages. I’m pretty pleased with the result (it’s all still free software!) but it’d be great to hear what you think too… Well, August is nearly done and I’m about to throw … Continue reading »
I got a bit excited when this journal came through the post at the weekend. It seems that my Masters essays can be recycled to good effect! Shame about the random capital in presbuteroi though; it wasn’t there on the draft I proofed. I was also a bit overwhelmed, on a rereading of the proofs, … Continue reading »
I’ve done quite a lot of reading and writing this week. Some of you are already thinking that this is hardly worthy of comment given my usual reading rate! But, what with that and not expecting to have time to blog tomorrow now that I can finally spend some time with Peter (who made it … Continue reading »
To start with, I am breaking the cardinal rule of having Fridays off because this Friday I have to go to a load of course and exam board meetings for the open learning tutoring I do. On the plus side there, though, I’ve just agreed to be the tutors’ rep: though no one is quite … Continue reading »
I sense a blog series coming on. ‘Fridays are for…’, it would be called. But I don’t need any more self-imposed pressures in my life and if I were to say that I was going to do such a series, then I would feel committed to produce something every Friday in this vein. Since I … Continue reading »
LML. From the land of texting and Facebook statuses, yet another acronym. This time courtesy of my soon-to-be 13 year old brother. To my delight, one of his friends had to comment on said status, asking what LML stands for. So I’m not totally uncool for not knowing. But it means LoveMyLife. I felt a … Continue reading »
Today I just needed to write something. It won’t be a long piece because I am half-brain dead, it seems, after nearly ten hours at college! But it feels like it has been too long since I blogged; I have been building up so much that I want to reflect upon, to react to, to … Continue reading »
