Monthly Archives: May 2009

Christian The Lion…

Sorry i havn’t posted in a while, i will post very soon :) But for now, check this video which is pretty cool…

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Reality, Childrens Church

So last night i lead worship at Reality, which is the weekly Youth gathering here at Aldates. Which i really enjoyed, had a great time worshipping the Lord. Steve (One of my housemates) gave a really good talk on Taming the tongue from James 3. Focussing especially on the bit where it says how it only takes a small spark to start a forest fire. One bit i found really helpful was that he then went on to explain a little why this analagy is such a powerful one, apparntly A forest fire can travel up to about 7 or 8mph, which sounds quite slow to us. An average non elite sprinter, sprints at about 19mph or so, but can only keep this up for 200 metres or so. When a human runs a marathon, they would run at about 6mph, so essentially it is not impossible for a forest fire to outspeed a human running away from it. And that is just such a huge thing, that James is saying that our tongues, though a very small part of our body, can say something that maybe we don’t think about that could then spark off something so huge.
We went into groups after and stuff to chat about this, because it is something that no-one has perfect, and something that we all really need to make such a concious effort in improving etc.

This morning i lead worship in Children’s Church which was fab! Really enjoyed that, just before the worship they had a game, where 2 kids covered their faces in golden syrup, and a couple of other kids had to throw sugar puffs to see how many would stick!! Brilliant!

I think one of my favourite things of this year, is leading worship in so many different areas of the Church and just meeting God with so many different people and stuff! Love it

May

Well, May is upon us. Summer has nearly arrived! I like that a lot! First week back in Oxford has been really good! I co-lead worship at Hungry on wednesday with Rich, which was really good! Always a bit of an odd one, not really knowing where the evenings going, no idea what songs will be sung! But i really enjoyed it. Rich has written a new song too which we have started doing, which is just amazing! It’s called ‘He Lives’ So the clue about what it is about in the name!

Thursday i lead worship at ACT, was a really good evening there actually, good conversation and bible study and stuff with Pete and one of the guys from ACT, looking at Genesis 1, always a good one.

So Friday was bank holiday! Here in Oxford they celebrate this in quite some style! Its tradition for all the students to stay up all night, all the bars and stuff open all night, and then in the morning everyone gathers in the centre, and at 6am a choir sings from the top of one of the colleges, and a short blessing is given over the city etc! So i decided i am only in Oxford for a year, i may as well give it a go! So 4.45am my alarm goes off, unsure if this is still a good idea! But got into town just gone half 5 and thousands and thousands of people we’re there it was amazing! An old tradition is also that people used to jump off the big bridge just next to where the choir were! So obviously now a days the police put half of the british police force on the bridge from 4:30 till about 7 to stop this happening! Obviously the people who still wanted to do it, just did it after 7, so the police just caused a mere inconvienience to the timing of their day really.

We did however go for a full english breakfast after though, so it was definatly worth getting up for!

Last night we celebrated Lizzies birthday, had a chineese, then went out to the pub where quite a number of other guys from Church joined us. Was a really pleasant evening.

I am leading worship at Reality tonight, so best go finish planning! And Children’s Church tomorrow morning, should be good!

Its the May ball this thursday too, can’t wait for that! Its a caley (How do you spell that? Like a country dance/barn dance thing!)

So yeh, God bless

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