This is one for the family.
Elle had her first 'school' trip. She went to Banham zoo armed with her packed lunch and 'school' uniform.
Here she is showing of her lunch bag
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Back to Work
Two days back, and it's going quite well. Plenty to do and plenty done.
Eva is growing and changing daily. She had her hearing screening today and passed with flying colours.
Elle seems so much bigger, but I think it's mostly to do with the obvious comparison to Eva.
Hol is taking everything in her stide. Nothing unusual there then!
I've spent some of my time making the first of the cables for Oak Grove's new PA system; that's 84 solder connections out of about 396....! The majority of the system has been delivered and first play is next week! I've had a chance to play with our LS9:32 and it is incredible. The key seems to be to only use the amazing features sparingly. More on that later.
Eva is growing and changing daily. She had her hearing screening today and passed with flying colours.
Elle seems so much bigger, but I think it's mostly to do with the obvious comparison to Eva.
Hol is taking everything in her stide. Nothing unusual there then!
I've spent some of my time making the first of the cables for Oak Grove's new PA system; that's 84 solder connections out of about 396....! The majority of the system has been delivered and first play is next week! I've had a chance to play with our LS9:32 and it is incredible. The key seems to be to only use the amazing features sparingly. More on that later.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Where Does Theology Come From?
Definition:
Theology - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth.
or the threechordwonder version:
Theology - Stuff I know about God.
A certain type of person has exclusivised 'Theology', to suggest that you have no theology until you have studied it thoroughly or completed a masters or similar. This is nonsense.
This type of theology often includes or is integrated with philosophy, but this seems to me to distract from God more often than it enhances our understanding, and can become another weapon in the Arsenal of Intellectualism (please appreciate the irony of that statement.)
That is not to say that these things are wrong, oh no, but its all to easy to make knowledge of theology a goal, whereas we need to make, and keep, knowledge of God as our goal.
There are many places that we can find more 'stuff' about God to add to our list of 'stuff we know about God', or theology. Depending on how we add to our list, we can end up with some very interesting questions and problems to solve.
Some of these places are obvious, some are not. Some are healthy and some are not. Hopefully, and prayerfully, we will see the difference and build a strong, coherent, God led theology.
Interesting, Graham Kendrick recently said that he believes that most people get their theology from songs. Whoa. If that's true, and in an environment where we see so much 'life application' teaching I would tend to agree, that puts a large weight of responsibility firmly on the shoulders of those who write/chose the songs we sing in Church (and maybe those who program TV radio etc etc.)
Which reminds me of a rule which I try to stick to when leading..always sing about the cross! I wish I knew where I learned that from...
I digress.
Theology is not meant to be complicated. Or simple. It is a relationship with Creator God; who we will never, on this earth, be able to understand or know everything about.
Usually I'd finish on a song, but given what I've said above, I'll finish on a quote from the bible:
Amen.
Theology - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth.
or the threechordwonder version:
Theology - Stuff I know about God.
A certain type of person has exclusivised 'Theology', to suggest that you have no theology until you have studied it thoroughly or completed a masters or similar. This is nonsense.
This type of theology often includes or is integrated with philosophy, but this seems to me to distract from God more often than it enhances our understanding, and can become another weapon in the Arsenal of Intellectualism (please appreciate the irony of that statement.)
That is not to say that these things are wrong, oh no, but its all to easy to make knowledge of theology a goal, whereas we need to make, and keep, knowledge of God as our goal.
There are many places that we can find more 'stuff' about God to add to our list of 'stuff we know about God', or theology. Depending on how we add to our list, we can end up with some very interesting questions and problems to solve.
Some of these places are obvious, some are not. Some are healthy and some are not. Hopefully, and prayerfully, we will see the difference and build a strong, coherent, God led theology.
Interesting, Graham Kendrick recently said that he believes that most people get their theology from songs. Whoa. If that's true, and in an environment where we see so much 'life application' teaching I would tend to agree, that puts a large weight of responsibility firmly on the shoulders of those who write/chose the songs we sing in Church (and maybe those who program TV radio etc etc.)
Which reminds me of a rule which I try to stick to when leading..always sing about the cross! I wish I knew where I learned that from...
I digress.
Theology is not meant to be complicated. Or simple. It is a relationship with Creator God; who we will never, on this earth, be able to understand or know everything about.
Usually I'd finish on a song, but given what I've said above, I'll finish on a quote from the bible:
Amen.
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