I was playing Bop It the other day, and discovered a small hole in it (see red square). Now maybe I’m stupid and this is obvious to all Bop It owners, but I had now idea what this was, but it looked as though my headphones might fit in there. To my delight it turned out it was a headphone socket, now I can play my Bop It without disturbing anyone! Was also pleased to see that JP put Bop It on his wedding list.

I’m still not entirely sure what I’m going to be doing after University, although I’m tempted to apply for this…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7328410.stm

Two evenings per week, £7 an hour, and all expenses paid… that’s right you can get paid to spend an evening at the pub with an old gent, and get your beer and crisps paid for you!

Take note anyone who puts sermons online and isn’t part of a church which has a super-flash content management system to do it for you… if you want a flash-looking CMS church website then visit me at Web4Christ.

Anyway… as part of my final-year project I’m building a website to manage sermon files for churches (or other Christian groups), it’s slow work, but it’s coming together.

I already mentioned the little feature where you can view the Bible verse of the sermon that you want to add, you can have a play and test by adding some new sermon records - Add some new sermons to the database

And then, the new bit, is the super-cool browse function. Using AJAX you can browse though the sermons without leaving the page, it’s very cool. Check it out (click the search image on the right side to activate browse) - Browse Sermons

It’s no where near finished, and there’s plenty of bugs, well less after today’s little session, but bear with it. If you think this system (be a visionary and see what it’ll look like when finished) is something that you/your church could make use of then get in touch… I don’t think I’m allowed to sell it, but it might be worth a donation…

Right, time for some Coke, a rock cake, and a book.

The other day I was thinking about baking and was reminded of my favourite childhood recipe… Chocolate Rock Cakes, mmm…

Makes 12 - 8oz self raising flour, pinch of salt, 3oz butter or margarine, 4oz plain chocolate, 3oz castor sugar, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of milk, a few drops of vanilla essence.

Grease a baking tray and heat oven to 350F, gas mark 4.

Sift flour and salt into large mixing bowl. Add butter, cut up, and rub into the flour.

Cut the chocolate into little chunks and add along with the sugar to the mixture. Mix it all up and make a hollow in the centre.

Get a small bowl, crack the egg, add milk and vanilla essence and mix lightly.

Add the egg mix in to the big mixing bowl, mix the ingredients into a stiff dough.

Place the mixture in rough heaps on the baking tray.

Bake for 10-15 minutes until light brown.

The Pooh Cook Book - Katie Stewart (1971)

Loved this…

HT: Mark Meynell

Yesterday I somewhat jokingly said that I might live-blog the resurgence conference… I did actually stay up till 2am to watch Driscoll and Mahaney… but Adrian Warnock actually blogged it, what he calls “Remote Blogging”. So anyway, he’s put some notes up there… just watching JP now

Also… Adrian has set up a little competition, to guess what the most read post on his blog currently is… having seen the previous 29 most read posts, along with a little common sense and knowledge of how search engines and blogs work the answer to the question is probably going to be his post about the ‘Word Alive, Spring Harvest split‘… we’ll have to wait and see if I’m right…

UPDATE…

I was wrong, so I better have another guess… Adrian gives a clue that the post in question is about a Christian leader… chances are that means it’s a post about Mark Driscoll, probably his interview of him…?

UPDATE 2…

Hoorah! I won a copy of Vintage Jesus… saves having to buy it

‘I simply taught, preached, and wrote God’s Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf… the Word did everything.’- Martin Luther

Doing some of this tonight… haven’t yet found a pub serving Wittenberg, usually just go for some Kronenberg, or a Staropramen…

The flyer below for the Sussex Revolution week excluding the ‘Che Jesus’ picture which someone else made was knocked up in about 10 minutes on Photoshop, little did I know that it would be scrutinised in detail by a group of Sussex media students… see their review. The CU events week, coincides with finishing serving on committee, sad times, but after two years it’s time to hand over to some fresh blood and to actually try and get a degree.

Speaking of degrees, I’m currently doing my final year project. It’s a website system written in PHP, MySQL, Javascript etc. and is going to be used by churches to manage their sermons online… you can see a little bit of what it does at the front and at the back (check out the AJAX bible verse lookup!).

I’m preaching at church this Sunday at the 8am service, Matthew 13:53-58, the prophet without honour. Will post something about that later, I think it’s ok… my main concern is 1. getting to church by 7.45am! and 2. being awake enough to form a sentence, grunts usually suffice at that time of day…

Lots of good stuff at church, new series on Revelation in the mornings and 1 Timothy in the evenings - have a listen. Starting tomorrow is the BH Lent course, we’re doing ‘Walk thru the Old Testament’… an overview of the OT, good times… apparently it involves doing actions and general audience participation, bad times.

Latest website project, gave Holy Trinity Eastbourne a facelift, and coming soon is a website for a new conference in Eastbourne, look out for ‘Bible by the Beach‘ in 2009!

We’re at week 6 of Religion Saves? the sermon series from Mars Hill, still to come; Dating, Emerging church and Regulative Principle. I’m booked in to the New Frontiers leadership conference which I’m excited about, two reason, 1st is obviously that MD is coming to speak, 2nd is that it’s in Brighton, which means it’s about a 2o minute walk to the conference. MD still hasn’t got back to me on my offer of coffee together…

Gutted to find out that I can’t go to the London Men’s convention this year, I double booked myself with a stag do that I’m organising in Snowdonia - I’m excited. The one relief is that it’s not too much longer after that till New Word Alive!!

In the blog world I’ve been a bit busy of late, but Mr Weston has rejoined us at least… Bish points us to a little review of evangelicalism in Britain from an outside perspective by Doug Wilson …and of course the big news on the WWW recently is the launch of UCCF’s theology network site, there’s loads of great stuff there already, so far I’ve listened to Mike Reeves introducing Augustine, Luther and Calvin… it’s good stuff!

Valentines day on Thursday… I’m hopeful…

Hello 2008. Have a happy new year everyone!

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.