I made it to the first three London Men’s conventions, but sadly missed the last two. However, it is in the Easter holidays for me this year so may be able to make it…

So what lies in store for 2008… well no new years resolutions, except maybe one, if I get my act together I may try and do the McCheyne Bible reading plan, but what’s happening in 2008…?

Hugh is 22. Mission at the end of January.

New Word Alive!!

Finish my degree hopefully…

Weddings – at least 3

Some conferences… Kent Hughes at EMA? Mark Driscoll in Brighton? David Cook at Keswick?

Colwyn Bay 3 – love it!

Lots of reading – have lots of books I want to read

Get a job! – I dunno what I’m doing after university yet

Could be quite a fun and exciting year… lets hope so!

I do like a bit of TK (Tim Keller), as does Povey, who is officially a TK-geek. As it happens, Mark Driscoll is also a TK-geek, stating in one of his sermons that he rips most of his material from TK – in other news Driscoll joined Facebook last week, over 1000 friends already, most of whom, like me have never met him.

Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed TK at EMA and listen to a bit of his stuff every now and then. Although the one thing that does annoy me is that most of his sermons cost money, not cheap either! But one free one, a good one is available at BeThinking on the subject of exclusivity and other religions and worldviews, he’s great at analysing and deconstructing worldviews.

Exciting news for TK fans, he’s written a book! The book is titled ‘The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Scepticism’ , and I’m guessing picks up some of the same of the same themes as the BeThinking talk. You can read a bit more about it on the Redeemer website, he has a little page called ‘Yes, I wrote a book‘. It’s released on the 14th February and will cost £12 on Amazon, although the cover looks pretty bad, looks like it’s been published by Banner!

Another book that caught my attention recently was Lesslie Newbign’s ‘The Gospel in a Pluralist Society’, after it was recommended by both Driscoll and Keller, who I would regard as being two of the key thinkers on what you might call Reformission, so I think I shall try and get myself a copy some time.

Had the privilege of playing a truly awesome game the other day… imagine playing Jenga in reverse, then replace the wooden blocks with small plastic chairs, and you have the game of chairs. It is genius, and highly addictive. Not to mention shuffle-board, old school, but good fun!

Gone are the days when my family would humour me and play charades and pictionary with me, gone too are the days when I had the desire to play these games. Sad times.

I had a look for this game on the net and it looks like it’s completely sold out – hopefully some new stock will arrive for the new year.

Another great theme from Design Disease gives me a nice new look for 2008. I guess I just like playing around with themes and WordPress to make this site extra pretty and generally rather cool.