September 2011
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April 2011
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BBQ in the garden
The Buckles came over, so we had an ad hoc bbq in the garden.
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“Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute...”
– Proverbs 17:14
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Zebedee is two!!
Just two years old!
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Celebrating the Zebra
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Today we opened the garden, fired up the bbq and celebrated the awesomeness of the little dude.
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Paris in the Spring
So we left the little boy with his grandparents and the dog with his grandad and off we went for a weekend in Paris. Lovely.
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March 2011
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Visiting Grandad
Before the parents abandoned their son, we had a lovely few days in Hagley.
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“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
February 2011
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“Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.”
– William Wilberforce
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“Interfering in someone else’s argument is as foolish as yanking a dog’s ears.”
– Proverbs 25:13
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Another new website
So today sees the launch of a new website for MATCH - men and the church. I’ll be at our conference in Grove today.
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase,...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
January 2011
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“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
– Albert Einstein
December 2010
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Styles Christmas
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Abi has decided to abandon us for Christmas, so we celebrated early.
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October 2010
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Styles Day
A lovely autumnal day in Oxford.
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Visiting Cloud House
We sent the olds away for their anniversary and we got to hang out in Stapleford for a few days.
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“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
– John F. Kennedy
September 2010
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“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
August 2010
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Greenbelt 2010
Fine weather, eclectic music, new friends and good festival vibes.
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Summer Holidays
Despite some rainy days and many soggy clothes, we were sunny in Cornwall.
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Tim and Lucy's Wedding
A trip down to Somerset to the lovely village of Milverton for some Anglo-Germanic joy.
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“The principle danger of the 20th Century will be: a religion without the Holy...”
– William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army.
July 2010
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Chris and Tonti's Wedding
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New Wine 2010
We’ve just got back from a great week at New Wine 2010: Unstoppable.
Highlights include:
Camping with more than 30 others from St George’s, and just down the hill from other friends from St James Gerrards Cross.
Morning Bible teaching from Simon Ponsonby, looking at parables of the kingdom in Matthew 13. Also some wonderful reminders of God’s love for us.
Evening worship...
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with...”
– Galileo Galilei
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Visiting Rara
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Hyperbole and a Half: Dog →
This excellent, educational and hilarious article made me feel less depressed about my failure over the last 18 months to train Baxter.
I found this blog completely by accident and it’s brilliant: wit and great art - who could complain.
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Cream Tea at Dropmore
Each Sunday afternoon St Anne’s Dropmore offer cream teas. This week we went along to enjoy.
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New Website for St George's Church →
Today sees the launch of our new church website. It is aimed to be modern, clean and yet personal and real. We want to give a true picture of our church and also give any visitor all the information they might need.
As yet we’re not sure how it will be used beyond the ordinary, but it’s possible it could become the hub of much of our church communication - although obviously this is...
June 2010
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Ordained Priest
This afternoon at St Mary’s Slough, I was ordained priest by the Bishop of Buckingham together with five others curates from the deanery of Burnham and Slough.
It was a wonderful time as so many friends from St George’s Britwell gathered with my family to support and pray for me as I begin this new ministry. I was particularly encouraged by my supporting clergy: Rev’d Peter...
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“Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock’.”
– Christopher Hitchens Hitch 22
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Loving Liturgy
This evening I went to evening prayer at the church of St Margaret of Antioch, Iver Heath. The service followed the Book of Common Prayer (1662) and it was calmly spiritual and wonderfully English.
Well-written liturgy is beautiful, poetic, dramatic. It has rhythm and pace. There are well-crafted sentences and phrases that stick in the mind. Much of the beauty of liturgy comes from its...
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein