As I sat down at my keyboard to type out this weeks post and having no particularly inspiring ideas nagging to get onto the screen I decided to do what I suspect is common in the blogosphere, and simply quote someone else’s work. This devilish scheme had one alteration; it’d be my own. What follows [...]
This may come as a surprise, but what you’ve been led to believe about everyone’s favorite bean, whether through mass media or the trendy adverts of the nearest cozy cafe, all these are nothing but an elaborate farce, a shirade to keep you from discovering the truth… Coffee beans aren’t harvested in a field, they [...]
At long last, I have sorted out a nifty system for uploading and viewing pictures on my site. You can now access them on the main menu under the appropriate heading ‘Photos’ (Top Right). The handful of pictures I’ve included so far are in no particular order but feature events of the past few months.
Recently I’ve come to regret a few design points found on my website. For instance, is it really necessary to have the publish date of every post included in size 48 bold font accompanying each article? On the home page no less! Those of you who enjoy reading between the lines have probably concluded that [...]
A few years ago, while visiting a Youth With a Mission training centre in the ‘back-country’ of Montana I was confronted by a number of magazine headlines adorning the shelves of the community convenience store. Competing with the usual gossip guides, horoscopes and images of scantily clad women were the unexpected titles “The Rise of [...]
Fifteen hundred kilometres of rickety rails and over twenty two hours of consecutive travel finds me and my team in Budapest, the capital of Hungary and self-proclaimed protector of a number of world-heritage sites and fascinating inventions (the Rubik’s Cube for one). And yet despite the cities undeniable tourist allure, so far our team of [...]
On my second day here in Kiev I attended a Christian gathering of international immigrants, business-people, and missionaries living and working in the city. As the meeting progressed, the Pastor proceeded to preach a sermon on a topic which to many might be considered cliche or even elementary – the art of personal devotions. Though [...]
What for years has existed only in my imagination and the remote horizon of my calendar has finally come to pass – after years of planning, months of fundraising, and four days of drawn out travel later – I’m in Ukraine and I’m planning to stay. Despite the obvious cultural differences such as reckless (seemingly [...]
A few months ago I was asked to take over the pulpit for Pastor Peter at Mclaurin Baptist Church, here’s the recording from the first service. In this sermon we investigated the rise and fall of the church at Ephesus (Revelation 2 and Acts 19) paying pointed attention to Jesus’s call for that church to remember, repent and return.
As our final stop in the reformation tour, we visited Prague the capital of the Czech Republic and the home of one of the earliest champions of Protestantism – John Hus. As a Catholic priest and professor in the fourteenth century, John Hus objected to some of the practices of the Roman Catholic Church and [...]