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 Getting out of the Bubble. I sat in a pub in South Bristol last week whilst staying with my friends Dave and Ali. It was about the third question, the one that follows after "what's your name?", when one of Dave's church friends asked me "what do you do?" Now normally I love that question because saying you start churches from scratch usually opens up a real flow of God talk, but this time my answer prompted the honest response "so you're not a real minister then!" I was tempted to answer "I'm not a vicar, as there is only one vicar (Latin: vicarious - someone who acts in the place of another) the man Christ Jesus" (see 1 Timothy 2:5), but I resisted and said "I'm not a full time minister".

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This article appeared in the Gloucestershire Echo today. It is a slightly modified version of my press release below. I don't like the headline but it is generally positive.

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My twelve year old son made a New Year resolution to clean his teeth at night as well as the morning! This is not a place to discuss our parenting skills, such as why has this taken us so long to get him to get to this point or the personal hygiene of boys.

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Disabled Access? The first I knew of a Church Planting conference in Bath this week was when it started to appear on the Facebook status of some cyber friends.

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It was great to have a meal the other week with Mark Jones who leads City Church Gloucester. We sat in a pub which had been the site of the first ever Sunday School founded by Robert Raikes, and opposite St.

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  In a star filled Manchester night last Saturday 55 000 gathered at Old Trafford Cricket Ground for Coldplay. "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, everything you do, and they were all yellow" as I joined the mass Karaoke (Naomi tells me I have a good voice - just as well as I was singing in her ears).

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When I was involved in training teachers we used to talk about the "hidden curriculum". This is not the on the page content of urban models or coastal erosion that you intend the students to be learning but the off message content that is learned as unintentional by products of the school experience. The hidden curriculum provides students with regular unplanned lessons on topics such as authority and power from teachers or inequalities in social networks from their peers.

2009-08-31T23:58:00+00:00 2009-08-31T23:58:00+00:00 2009-08-31T23:58:00+00:00 http://www.godfirst.org.uk/blog_article.php?id=4 Godfirst

Podcasting seemed logical maybe there was somebody out there who was interested in listening to my sermons. Even if there wasn't I was preaching Sunday by Sunday and it saved burning CD's for the Kids workers.