Make sure you change the toilet roll when it’s finished.
Always text or call when you are running late.
Regularly eat meals together.
Remember and celebrate special days and anniversaries.
In the case of an emergency – buy flowers.
Acknowledge your faults (incl. communication, body odour, and habits).
Go to bed at the same time.
Enjoy your life together.
Earlier this week i was playing around with Google Reader – deleting a few blogs and adding a couple of new ones. For the last 3-4 years i have subscribed to a variety of websites and blogs through GR and it is without a doubt the best way to get the content you want.
If you’re like me then no doubt you visit the same sites each week, perhaps even each day. With GR the content that is on those sites come to one place and immediately after it’s posted. GR is then an efficient way of reading the articles and posts that i find interesting. It also means i don’t have to go searching for what i want, i can decide whether or not to read the content straight away, leave it for later or not even read it at all.
If you look at a number of sites each day or week then i’d recommend getting on GR. There’s just no other way.
If you’d like to subscribe to this blog then put joncoombs.com/feed in the search box over at GR. Alternatively, sign up via email on the right hand side of this page.
The List is a selection of articles that i have seen over the course of the week that interested me – perhaps they’ll interest you…
Top 10 photos – The top photos from National Geographic.
Will Gen Y ever be leaders? – A look at how to groom Gen Y as leaders and having to put up with their eccentricities of their (our) generation.
The company of the year – None other than Evernote. My love for them is known and has been written about here before. Get on them, they’ve got a brilliant product.
Preachers wanting to become great – be careful, very careful.
Everest at 360° - Brilliant pictures of Everest and then the ability to move it 360 degrees.
Gender roles – the issue of submission.
Anti-porn = Anti-sex? – “Pornography makes a guy feel like a man without requiring him to be one.”
The List is a selection of articles that i have seen over the course of the week that interested me – perhaps they’ll interest you…
The demise of guys – A short article and video talking about how guys now suck b/c they just stay in their rooms playing Xbox until they’re 30+.
D.A. Carson’s theological method – This links to the article written by Andy Naselli about how Carson thinks theologically through a variety of issues. It’s a very good and eye opening article into the mind of the best evangelical scholar in the world today.
Fornicating on the battlefield – All about porn, men, and the call to fight.
Judge us by the Red Frog instead – Andrew Bolt writes about schoolies and the great work that Red Frogs do around the country.
How to shrink your church – Faithfulness in ministry vs. attractiveness.
Seeing that I couldn’t get to sleep last night I plugged the iPod in and listened to Mikey’s talk on Priorities.
I thought his dulcet tones would gradually put me to sleep, but alas, I listened to it all.
And…loved it.
Anyone between the ages of 17-25 should listen to this. It is wise and biblically thought through advice on something that almost every young adult I know struggles with. From organising your time to commitment levels to being able to think through the next few years to dealing with what’s next. There are some great tips laid out here which you don’t realise until you’re about 28.
Rather than reading Getting This Done just listen to Mikey.
Get on it.
With Christmas now only 25 days away some organised people in our world are already purchasing Christmas presents for their loved ones. I’m not one of them (although i should probably begin to think about it).
Yet, over the coming weeks we will all get swept up into the “spirit of Christmas” that pervades this time of year and look to presents and gift giving to capture this “spirit”.
This Sunday morning i get to preach on the spirit of Christmas but am struggling to define what that is exactly. After all, some would say that it is simply gift giving, or giving itself. Others may believe that the spirit of Christmas is a time when joy and happiness pervades our being as we seek to look out for others and connect with family over an enormous meal. What if you don’t have family? What if you don’t find this time of year a time of happiness and joy – many in our society don’t. In fact, it is quite often the case that this time of year is one of the hardest for many.
The spirit of Christmas is not something that can be easily defined, as much as I’d like it to be in a box and labelled. Although like the saying “the spirit of the game” you know the spirit of Christmas when you see it (or experience it). The experience of giving and receiving, joy, hope, happiness, family, love, worship, food, and bonding all make up that spirit, however great or little that may be for us.
What is the spirit of Christmas for you?
Today i literally have nothing to say. I’ve been sitting here in front of this screen trying to type a variety of things but nothing is coming at all. Therefore, i am writing about nothing b/c nothing is the thing that is coming to mind. I am stuck.
In some ways there are a number of things that i’d like to write about but i haven’t been able to work out how i would like to say them. I think i am just fearful of what people will think once they are posted but then who really cares about that.
This has now turned into a post of some description but perhaps i should delete it as it is probably a bit silly now. I literally have nothing of value to add to this post so if you are reading this i apologise for wasting your time.
Feel free to suggest topics for me to write about as i can’t think of anything myself.
Good night.
