Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

  • Thoroughly enjoyed the church BBQ in Porthkerry country park. Good food and goo fellowship. #
  • Looking forward to the church BBQ. #
  • Establish and Maintain Your Online Identity – identity management – Lifehacker http://bit.ly/aPNTyL #
  • Happy 501st Birthday John Calvin #
  • Packing up. We will be moving out in one month today. #
  • Use a Daily Log to Keep Yourself Focused on Productivity http://bit.ly/aMJGhM #
  • Who else has noticed the football shaped button at the bottom right of the youtube video player? Press it to see what it does. #
  • Had a great meeting in Lampeter last night. #
  • In Lampeter with Esther. We are speaking on brittany tonight. The children are with their french grandparents in Cardiff. #
  • The Worst Email Habits and Annoyances You Should Avoid (or At Least Be Aware Of) http://bit.ly/9eb5XC #
  • Speaking with Esther in lampeter tonight. The french grandparents are looking after the children. #
  • Still trying to get back on track. Difficult when you have visitors, but we'll get there. #
  • Getting thigs done step 2: Processing #
  • http://www.christianity.com/ligonier/ #
  • One customer was shocked to learn my home church in Cardiff is the Heath. She was married there by mr Higham in 1965 #
  • Sunday trivia: Brooke Shields has got some French blood, direct line from Henry IV, St Louis and Hugues Capet. How useful is that? #

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Visiting Cardiff Castle

My parents have been staying with us since Tuesday, and are going back to France on Sunday morning. As they have come over the week and we have had several commitments, we have not been able to go very far to visit places this time. Instead, they have helped us packing up, and they have looked after the children one evening while Esther and I went to speak in a Church in Lampeter.

Nevertheless, we have been able to go to visit Cardiff Castle this morning. I had been twice before, but am still surprised by it. I learned today that William Burgess, the architect commissioned by the Marquess of Bute to restore Cardiff Castle loved opium. It is not surprising when you see the designs of some of the rooms. It is a real excentric Victorian place. My mum thought Bute was mad to want something like that. But was he really? He was one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time, and had more money than he would ever need. After all, very reach people today do not behave differently do they?

Do not be like children

Last Sunday morning’s sermon was rather challenging. Wyn Hughes continued on the same theme as the previous week on the need to be mature as believers. He preached from Ephesians 4:14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. The church should not be affected by the spirit of the world. The Spirit of God governs the church, not the spirit of the age. Wyn Hughes went on to describe children as an illustration on how we should not be as Christians. So how do children behave?

  • Children lack of self-control, they are controlled by their feelings. We should be controlled by our heads.
  • Children over react: we should not be involved in playground policy and avoid being dogmatic.
  • Children love novelty. Novelty isn’t bad in itself, be we should be wise and not too quick to adopt every new fad.
  • Children like being entertained. We need to grow out of that, we need a stability.

So how to we get out of this childlike state? The answer is simple: by feeding on the word of God and making the most of the means of grace.

I found this challenging. My impression is that the world we live in encourages a childlike behaviour in adults, and this creeps in in our lives much too easily.