Blog
Mar 2010
10
Movie Reviews
I use a couple of movie review sites to get a flavour for a particular film, and I’m starting to think they are actually quite pointless. Most of them allow you to rate a film out of 5 or 10 stars..
Feb 2010
22
The Message for the Broken
Jesus’ teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind ..
Feb 2010
3
Computer Games
Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. Marcus Brigstocke
Feb 2010
2
Nick Griffin and Haiti
I was rather appalled to find some comments by Nick Griffin about Haiti on the BBC website . They’re from a couple of weeks ago, and apparently he published them on his Twitter site. Mr Griffin’s orig..
Jan 2010
28
TV Intelligence
Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked ‘Brightness,’ but it doesn’t work. Marcus Brigstocke
May 2009
3
Amazing Art
Now often I find art stupid, rubbish, pretentious, etc etc - I’m sure it’s because I don’t understand it. This this is stupendously good - I genuinely couldn’t believe my eyes the first time I saw it...
Apr 2009
30
Communities of Grace
Over the years I have frequently thought about the relationship between the uncompromising ethical stance of much of the New Testament (not least the Sermon on the Mount), and salvation as the free gi..
Apr 2009
17
Unscientific Questions
I watched an excellent programme on BBC One last night, called the Narnia Code. One of the points of the documentary was that CS Lewis preferred a medieval understanding of the universe to the modern ..
Mar 2009
31
Good News Proverbs
By this I don’t mean Proverbs that necessarily are Good News, but the translation of the Proverbs in the Good News translation of the Bible. One or two have actually made me laugh out loud, because th..
Mar 2009
30
A Good Sermon?
What makes a good sermon? We are having a preachers’ meeting this evening at church, and at our staff meeting this lunchtime we discussed the kinds of things we look for in a good sermon. We suggested..