We’ve all heard about the Irish Farmer who interrupted the filming of a video clip in one of his fields. i wondered if the guy might be a Christian, but the BBC article didn’t give any hints. Well, the Good book Blog has rectified the BBC: The Good Book Blog – The Beeb and the Gospel: Silence it, it’s embarrassing.
Month: September 2011
A cross cultural experience: the pheasant (caution, graphic images)
The dad of one of the girls in Jean-Baptiste’s class goes hunting. The hunting season opened on Sunday, and on Tuesday, his wife brought us a pigeon and a pheasant (their children don’t like game, so they tend to give away everything he catches). She cleaned and plucked the pigeon for Esther and left us with the pheasant to prepare. I was in a Bible study when she came. We feel very privileged to have received this gift.
Now, that’s a whole new experience to me. I never thought I would have to clean and pluck a freshly killed wild bird. Having watched the butchers do that when I worked in a French supermarket, I had an idea of what to do. But I phoned my dad to check with him how to do it. It was easy enough. So, Esther plucked the bird and I emptied it. It is now cooking and we are looking forward to taste it later today. Esther cooked the pigeon in a soup last night and we will taste it today also. I am including a few pictures below. if you are sensitive, look away.
Lloyd Jones on “The Christian’s secret of a Happy Life”
I read this today in the latest issue of the Banner of Truth Magazine. It is an extract from a sermon on John 1 by Dr Martyn Lloyd Jones :
(…) Another trouble with our attitude towards sanctification is that we desire to be happy rather than holy. We want happiness so we go to our meetings, our conferences, our conventions, to get ‘it’. What is ‘it’? It is the happiness of getting rid of our problems. A book that has had a great influence has a significant title: The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life. That’s it! ‘Happy life’! Come along, I will tell you. I can make you happy quite easily. You need not wade through your Bible, you need not understand theology, you need not go this long, roundabout way via the law. Here you are: ‘The Christian’s secret of a happy life’. But happiness does not come first.
What does come first? Holiness!
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-25
- Bible Works 9 installed on a virtual machine on my Mac, looking good, looking forward to test it next week @bibleworks #
- @TonyRucinski google working here in reply to TonyRucinski #
- Now to Rostrenen for the monthly Bible study. The sun is shinning, looking forward to the 45min trip. #
- Eph 6:19, pray for me and my colleague as we go out to the weekly market this morning to do some evangelism. #
- Euan Murray from the Scottish rugby team: It's basically all or nothing, following Jesus. I don't believe in pick 'n' mix Christianity #
- The fool says in his heart there is no God: http://t.co/QcDnr2GP #
- Reactions on DSK's television interview, in French: http://t.co/wozx4wS9 #
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BBC Sport – Rugby World Cup 2011: Devout Euan Murray questions Sunday matches
Scotish Rugby player said a few years ago:
“It’s basically all or nothing, following Jesus. I don’t believe in pick ‘n’ mix Christianity. I believe the Bible is the word of God, so who am I to ignore something from it?
“I might as well tear out that page then keep tearing out pages as and when it suits me. If I started out like that there would soon be nothing left.
“I want to live my life believing and doing the things (God) wants and the Sabbath day is a full day.
“It’s not a case of a couple of hours in church then playing rugby or going down the pub, it’s the full day.”
As a result of his convictions, he won’t be playing in the rugby world cup game this Sunday. Amen. At last a Christian man with convictions.
Read the full article on the BBC website:Â BBC Sport – Rugby World Cup 2011: Devout Euan Murray questions Sunday matches.
First Breton Lesson
My first Breton lesson was on Monday night. I had at first hesitated between learning Breton or starting rock climbing again. My friend Alan convinced me that I should live dangerously and get started on the Breton.
Well, that was an experience… There were quite a lot of people (12-15 I think), but I expect some will drop out in the coming weeks. It was very unstructured and difficult to follow, but we managed to learn to count up to 30, and the teacher got started on telling the time. Some in the group have already done some Breton, so there are different levels in the class, which won’t help. Anyway, I’ll give it a try. It might require some extra work on my own, but once I understand how things work, it should ve fine. I’ve been told there are similarities with Welsh, which will help.