Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Worth the work

Well this years bible class is taking abit of a different slant, split the classes, so i'm now taking the 3rd form upwards.  Really wanting them to take ownership of the programme, keep it as conversational as possible in approach, and as relevant to their lives as possible. Would be alot easier from my point of view to simply churn out some pre-prepared "off-the-shelf" material each week, but don't know how beneficial that would be in encouraging them in their journey in faith.  Their programme ideas have been interesting, think i've a fair bit of research to be doing over the incoming months to prepare and help lead discussion, filtering it all through Gods Word as our benchmark.  Topics from peer pressure and relationships, how to pray and read your bible, growing in your faith; through to more in-depth ones like biblical interpretation, creation/evolution, prophesy, world religions, where our souls go when we die and suffering/poverty.

Challenging, but hopefuly beneficial  as we share together on this journey, exploring these topics using Gods living word as our guide.  Any good resources anyone can reccommend would be much appreciated. 

Find it amazing how the bible raises such diverse questions and thoughts in our minds, and also has something for everybody throughout its pages. 

Opera, not the musical kind!!

Have recently switched to a new web browser, a change does you good as they say.  Now using Opera, some nice additional features, loads a fair bit quicker than IE and is hopefully more sucure and virus free.  Still finding my feet with all it's keyboard and mouse shortcuts, tabbed browsing and RSS integration are nice features.  Will see how it goes for a while anyway

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Gone wireless broadband

Well we've finaly gone broadband, and wireless at that.  As cheap a package now for broadband than dial-up, so figured we might as well enjoy the surf where you want and talk option of Bt's wireless broadband.

Hopefully it will mean more regular postings on the old blog, can't really get less than recently as they have been rather scarce.  Anyway work in the morning so i'm off to bed having got connected after abit of hair pulling!!