steve

visit www.urbanmonklife.blogspot.com

visit www.urbanmonklife.blogspot.com

Andrew Jones seminar

Readers are becoming writers - renaissance of the writer. Blogging as accountability - athananius on the benefits of journalling for combatting sin.

• To blog is to praise.. Hallelujah - to publish ..
• To blog is to be accountability
• To blog is to be vulnerable
• blogging tells you more about me than a book., andrew has different blogs for different groups
• To blog is to give, not renumerate. Freely give. Generosity. A good namk is better than riches. Open source economy. Google search gift economy.
• to blog is to repent
• To blog is to fellowship including economic .
• To blog is to evangelise in a great way.
• To blog is to have integrity - being yourself. Do the graphics fit your level - who you are.
• To blog is to watch + pray. Watching sites..
• To blog is to tell the story In need to get bloggers prayer off andrews site.

thanks andrew www.tallskinnykiwi.com

Monday at Greenbelt.

At last, I seem to be able to blog from my pda. I'm posting from a tent listening to debate on churchless faith.. Simon Mayo was full up. I am definitely missing my tribe, i'll see them tomorrow. I'm having a wonderful chat with a postmodern monk friend of mine in the car- Tom Kirby. He has some interesting ideas about church + mission.
Jesus..- here I am for you, Steve.

well done matthew

a friend of mine Dr Matthew Dyer from Exeter is to become the new senior pastor of the church Brian Mclaren founded.. Matthew is an amazing guy with a wonderful family, a great brain and pastoral heart. God bless him in all that happens.

here I am at Greenbelt

here I am at Greenbelt sitting in the internet cafe. Some really intereseting things including Blog Forum from some top bloggers TSKiwi, Jonnny Baker, maggi dawn, wiblogs, etc... I'm just seeing the blog and interactive websites as real ways forward for loads of stuff.

Also went to 10 years on from Post-Evangelical with Dave Tomlinson - some interesting comment from Elaine Storkey.. I love this place, it so resonates with so much of who I am, faith, justice and the arts is how GB describe themselves. There is something for everyone, whatever faith level, age , theological bias, etc... I'll blog when I get home and put in some pics maybe.

Had a chat with Andrew Jones www.tallskinnykiwi.com and he's as great in real life, camping with his old youth group, real grassroots guy. He's doing a seminar on spiritual formation and blogging using this article as a starting place.

I'm camping with some wonderful young people from plymouth, it's so great to be with them.. I can still do the youthwork thing at 36 years of age, they said I was cool, can you believe it !! I'll be feeding on that one for a while.

God bless you whatever you are doing today. Your mate, virtual or otherwise.

Steve

Study refutes faith in silent majority

Study refutes faith in silent majority

Tim Radford, science editor
Tuesday August 16, 2005
The Guardian 

nomisonline.org.uk guide to podcasting, thnaks Simon

Link: Welcome to nomisonline.org.uk.

My Simple Guide to Podcasting

Connecting with Connectors

Link: Connecting with Connectors.

Call them super-connectors

Brother Roger killed - this is so sad. He was a serious man of God

Link: BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Christian leader stabbed to death.

Christian leader stabbed to death

the divine hours - retro future anglo-vineyard mix

Link: ann arbor vineyard presents: the divine hours.

A form of prayer at specified times to be used by individuals or groups. The Divine Hours includes morning, midday, vespers (evening) and compline (before retiring) offices, having roots in the biblical tradition. By default The Divine Hours below is displayed (print only version) based on Eastern Standard Time, U.S. however, you can now localize The Divine Hours... Learn more about The Divine Hours...

playin with flash graphics

playing with flash, I'm learning slowly and by trial and error

Draft of one my new web pages

Link: Home of FE Chaplaincy in Devon.

lot projectstories ccypmeet the team good practice fresh expressions churches together benefits links diocese neafe

a new week begins

a new wek begins. My birthday was excellent, suprise visits from some old friends, Steve and Jenny Rees with their 4 kids, Jon and Lucy Loose and their new son Joshua. So cool to see them, I first got to know them when I was 18 - 18 years ago. I've known them half my life... !!

This week is again a catching up and doing cool stuff with my planning for Greenbelt starting to get important. Taking a group from Devon.

Finishing Coaching Course project and having some coaching sessions.

May I wish you a wonderful week and God's blessing on all you are and do

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

"probono" - doesn't mean a U2 lover

Been on big catch up at work with backlog and also a few weeks of doing te stuff I should be. Had an annual  appraisal today, they still love me! Ruth, my line manager is excellent and soooo professional, exactly what I need. She's given me some study leave for my coaching diploma, bless her.. just what I need to catch up. I'm starting to coach pro-bono (for free) to get me going on the real thing. I have several guinea pigs but if you fancy some radical life change email me. !!!!!!???

awesome flash and a christian too

http://www.clubchaplain.com/

Sacred Space - the prayer site run by the Irish Jesuits

Some good advice from my Irish Jesuit friends

Link: Sacred Space - the prayer site run by the Irish Jesuits.

Something to think and pray about this week: You could eat your way through the Gospels, so frequent are the stories about meals and parties. Apart from the intimacy of lovers, there are few human actions that bind people to one another more closely than what the Romans called a convivium, their word for a banquet that literally means living together. We drop our defences, feel grateful to the hands that have prepared the meal, we argue and discuss and quarrel and tease and laugh. But we stay at the table. It is there that children watch their parents and learn about living. From the marriage feast of Cana, to the Last Supper, to his post-resurrection breakfast on the shore of the lake, Jesus loved to eat and drink with his friends. And he used the imagery of the banquet for the Eucharist in which he leaves us his abiding presence. In George Herbert’s words: You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat. So I did sit and eat.