Reading

As I said in the post below, reading a lot again.

Just read The Time traveler's Wife, good book, love story with a twist, highly recommended.

Also just read, Pushing Ice, Sci-Fi, again good book, describes itself as a Space Opera

Just in the process of reading a biography of Spurgeon.

Good book, easy read, very full life this man had.

But....

The only problem I have with this type of book is that I can't relate to these people. They don't seem to lead normal lives.

"Aha", I hear you say, "the Christian life isn't normal"

Maybe not to the man in the street, but I am a Christian, it is who I am, not what I do, but I still lead a life where I go to work to put food on the table, have a wife and two children and have constant contact with the people who live in this world.

But these godly men I read about seem to be super human and the only sins they seem to have are the sins of omission.

You never read that Spurgeon shouted at the kids because they got on his nerves or shouted at the wife because he had a bad day at the Tabernacle.

You never read that they didn't read their bible for a week because they got complacent or that they couldn't get to the meeting because their wife said they had to decorate the back bedroom.

Their prayers are eloquent and always seem to be answered, their preaching is powerful and fill churches. There wives are equally godly people and you never hear much about the children apart from how many they had (unless they went on to be great themselves then they have their own book)

Maybe things are harder these days, we have to compete with TV, game boys, x-boxes, computers. Instant gratification. A sermon over 20 minutes is too long for people, and they have to be multimedia performances.

Surely there were distractions in the 1800s

Why don't you read that that Spurgeon got stuck in traffic and came into the pulpit hot and sweaty and dying for the loo.

(they did have traffic jams in the 1800s, London streets used to get clogged up with horses and carriages, there was no High Way Code then)

Don't get me wrong, he was one of the greatest preachers in our history

But will someone make these guys real.

I had read that there is a biography/autobiography out there that runs into six volumes - maybe this will be the one to read.

God Bless

Creatist

Mr Brown

Hi Bro my comment to your blog

I have read the book, and yes, I agree that some of my "brothers" have taken up too much of their time "promoting" this book, but their problem is that Mr Brown does say at the beginning of the book that it is historically correct.

Hence, knickers, twist

There are many out there who would agree with him but there are also many out there (non Christian as well as Christian) who show that it is not historically correct and a lot of the "signs" he speaks of are open to interpretation in many ways.

Now my faith is strong enough not to be swayed by such a thing that

one, has been said in the past, and

two, will blow over and be forgotten about in a couple of months when the media frenzy has died down.

In fact I have found it a good opportunity to talk to people about what I believe.

Just as an aside, the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (written 15 years ago), took Dan Brown to court saying that he had copied their work. Big media coverage.

(it turns out Mrs Brown found most of the stuff on the net).

But, they both had the same publisher, and low and behold the latter book is now back on the shelves, (updated of course:)

So if you want to sell a book by the millions, arrange to have it banned......Hmmmm what was that book about Islam that they tried to have banned and the author got death threats?

To finish, if Mr Brown did this intentionally, then he has done very well out of it, but if he actually believes it he is a poorer man for it.

God Bless

p.s book about Gospel of Judas? Someone has. WH Smiths for about £15.00

and the Gospel of James

and every other disciple

but thats another post

p.p.s I also read once that a cow jumped over the moon, I wonder if I can prove it.........

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Recently

Can’t believe that it has been nearly five months since I last left anything on here!!

What’s been happening? Well let’s say that the only thing that is constant is change.

Additional hobby – Woodturning – addictedJ

New office @ work
New responsibilities @ work – my colleague and counterpart left too sunnier climes, now interviewing for replacement

Wood turning

Reading (on the grounds that for every book I buy, I give one away)

Furniture restoration (Can you make my table smaller?)

Woodturning

Changes in responsibilities @ church

Oh, and did I mention Woodturning

Holiday to St Ives (fantastic weather)

Holiday to Scotland (next week)

And of course Woodturning

Creatist