Renovation
Sorry it’s been so long..
This blog is going to get a new template soon.. mainly so that I’ll have put sufficient work into updating it’s look that I’ll put a proportional amount of work into writing updates!
So stay tuned. Gonna be less bulky and full of junk. A normal looking blog, can you believe it!
Al
Destructable
I read with destructable bookmarks and a pen. Something like an old receipt or old advertising flyers. Every time I come across something good, I can shred it and write a note or underline the bits I like so I don’t get distracted.
How do you like to approach good bits in a book?
‘The Boss’
Mikey likes to call him “Jonathan ‘The Boss’ Edwards”
I’ve been reading through 10-20 of his Resolutions each week with a student I’m hanging out with – we’ve been blowing out over a few of them. I’ll be sharing them and some thoughts over the next few weeks at the Uni Fellowship homepage www.ufcutas.org in the notes sidebar (on the front page) or at this ‘notes’ link.
I’d love you to come and explore the resolutions too!
(Thanks to John Cavanough who suggested I read them in the first place!)
Hiatus
It’s funny the things that we ignore when under pressure or stressed. I unintentionally dropped the ball with my blog as I thinned out my thinking space – and then it blew out to a few months!
Thankfully for me I’m neither married nor dating and get to sort this kind of thing out early, because I can imagine under stress I’d probably make some horrible errors in that area. Something for me to think about!
What kind of stuff do you neglect when under pressure?
Theology by T-Shirt
Izaac thinks aloud: Who knew the ‘T’ in T-shirt stood for ‘theology’?.
Izaac links to another dude that distinguishes between Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology by example of hanging your shirts. You should read it. I thought it was both helpful and funny.
Friends
I am so surprised by how many of these guys at Together for the Gospel call their books friends.. check out the Personal Study Tours, a bunch of videos of old dudes showing you through their library.. and revealing their weirdness.. very awesome.
Lasagne
Nikki and Mikey are an awesome ministry couple.
Tomorrow they will God willing have their 3rd child, which is way awesome. With that in the forefront of his mind, Mikey has been working real hard at Uni Fellowship to make sure everything is running smooth and awesome, and that the Committee is pumped, and that I’m doing ok too.
So, today the Lynchs made me Lasagne. They’re really Brilliant. Like Holidays, Airplanes and Volcanos.
Many MANY dragons.
So the other day I gave you an update on our flyering efforts during orientation week.
Well the whole Uni Fellowship Committee have turned into Avatars with many MANY dragons. And those funny horses.
Today after our 7:30am committee meeting, we headed onto Sandy Bay campus – (first time since Monday) – to give out our info to any new student studying Arts. Arts at UTAS, and I suspect everywhere else, is large, so large in fact that they split Arts orientation days down the middle according to surname. So today as the floodgates opened and the students piled in the Committee and staff opened fire. Aaron reckons we got 90% of the students.
And they are back to do it tomorrow!
Please be praying that as students begin their year, they might be curious enough to come along to our weekly lunchtime meetings on ‘The Christian Worldview’ or our evening meetings for awesome community pump up! And please pray that they come back and become curious about Jesus and Salvation.
Around the place Luke Hansard was doing his awesomeness today as well. He’s been doing it all week, just saw him for the first time today. Good times. Pray for him too.
You should comment on Luke’s blog, he will be encouraged and maybe write another blog post.
You Actually Have to Pray | TheResurgence
You Actually Have to Pray | TheResurgence.
As we read the book of Nehemiah, we appreciate that the man is no passive flower. We have a man of swift, decisive action; a creative and brilliant strategist who made things happen. He’d engineer and generate things through a mixture of ingenuity and belligerence.
So then why did he not do something? It would surely beat all this wailing. Begin a PR campaign, start lobbying, get on talk radio, or at least write a blog. Instead he mourns. And in doing so, he’s “blessed,” according to Jesus (Matt. 5:4).
Great post at the resurgence. I don’t link to them too often anymore – the info is generally recycled, a random list, book reviews on their own books or boring. But this one rocks.
Flyer (with dragons)
It’s orientation week at Uni this week – no, not O-week, but orientation week. That’s the one that doesn’t (yet) include alcohol in exorbitant proportions.
So, our aim this week is to attend all compulsory first year student sessions and hand out information for University Fellowship of Christians’ weekly and monthly gatherings.
Flyering I always found scary or confronting, but there is something different to flyering a campus to flyering town, and there is something different to flyering as a graduate than as a student. All of which make it much more enjoyable and pleasant.
What has really rocked is that so far in the two sessions we’ve been to, we’ve been able to direct students toward their lecture room or give them vital information. It’s really good, and I think the students appreciate it too.
Edit: Plus Mikey is a mighty Avatar of flyering. With a dragon. He flyers whilst riding the dragon. Really bold, and that helps heaps. He even goes to speak to lecturers to see if we can come in before the lecture begins to hand out flyers. Great stuff!
