Dallas Willard was speaking at our Sunday meeting recently and proclaimed “God made coffee” (among other things). He was challenging us to remember to thank God for the many good things we are surrounded by and try and to start the day by blessing something of the amazing world we live in. It is a […]
Category: Friends of CVM
I really love film. I enjoy trips to the cinema, if I want to watch something on TV it is generally a film; I am a fan of Mark Kermode’s podcast and I was even in the film society at University! My friend Russell is also a film fan and I have recently borrowed a […]
So I’m through the op. It’s not nearly as bad a thing as many blokes who may read this have had to face. But I’ve allowed myself to get down and frustrated over this. There have been weeks stuck in the house, off work, a premature retirement and being made to face for myself, the […]
Discs gave me trouble in my mountain bike brakes, now one’s gone in my back, so I’m in hospital, to have it removed. I worked in the same hospital as a consultant till last year, so it’s interesting being a patient. An hour before I go to theatre, the anaesthetist turns up. I didn’t realise […]
Carl Beech just bought me the latest Black Eyed Pea’s CD–The E-N-D–for my birthday. I must have said I like their music. They must be the best selling hip hop band in the world—amazing music/beat/words/electronic effects. Some of their lyrics are so cool and witty:–‘I’m so 2008, you’re so two thousand and late.’ I suppose, […]
