Awesome Scenes (and why Bishops shouldn't wear speedos)
Unfortunately my splurge from G&Ds last week was not recoverable but not to worry. I shall ramble in much the same way again, but without the accompaniment of a Mad Cow coffee (coffee containing a scoop of G&Ds ice-cream. mmmm).
It's been a busy couple of weeks - with more work than I'd hoped for and an application form for an MSc to be handed in. I managed it though, but this week could be potentially just as crazy. Last night was great though because it was a joint birthday and I enjoyed a quality evening, enhanced by the presence of many big names who have sadly moved on from life in Oxford. It was awesome.
I think I will talk a bit dad's induction at his new church, which some of you may have read a bit about it on Sam's blog. It an amazing occasion, and it was great to see so many friends and family. Afterwards we stood at the church door as a family to meet everyone, including the new parishoners who have been so very welcoming to us all. It was difficult though in some cases to know whether to say "Hi I'm James, nice to meet you, thank you for making me so welcome in Billingshurst" or "I haven't seen you for ages, how are you?" Rather embarrasingly I did get it wrong on one occasion but not to worry. What was fun is that finally I got to put some faces to random names from Christmas letters. You know the type - the ones addressed to the whole family even though they are people your parents only vaguely knew before you were born.
The actual induction service itself was very exciting and there was a real buzz about the place. The service proceeded interspersed with some classic hymns and the Bishop (Lindsay Urwin) gave a quality sermon. Bishop Lindsay was interviewed by Ali G some time back and he is cool. He was a very engaging and amusing preacher, and really delved deep in to the chosen passage from Phillipians. The sermon seemed shorter than it was and he made some quality points, both for my dad as the new vicar and to the people of Billingshurst as a whole. I especially liked his point about the church being in the business of making Jesus Christ of Nazareth known. "To do this we need to know and love Him ourselves, otherwise we won't know what we are talking about."
Talking of Bishops, I think that I saw the Bishop of Oxford in the swimming pool the other day - wearing a pair of speedos. Not cool.
I'd best go get on now, but before I go I want to tell you about the list of past chapel wardens I saw in Merton Chapel this morning. One of them was called Scrope Beardmore. Has anyone ever come across anyone called Scrope? Are you yourself a Scrope? If so please comment and introduce yourself.
Disco.
It's been a busy couple of weeks - with more work than I'd hoped for and an application form for an MSc to be handed in. I managed it though, but this week could be potentially just as crazy. Last night was great though because it was a joint birthday and I enjoyed a quality evening, enhanced by the presence of many big names who have sadly moved on from life in Oxford. It was awesome.
I think I will talk a bit dad's induction at his new church, which some of you may have read a bit about it on Sam's blog. It an amazing occasion, and it was great to see so many friends and family. Afterwards we stood at the church door as a family to meet everyone, including the new parishoners who have been so very welcoming to us all. It was difficult though in some cases to know whether to say "Hi I'm James, nice to meet you, thank you for making me so welcome in Billingshurst" or "I haven't seen you for ages, how are you?" Rather embarrasingly I did get it wrong on one occasion but not to worry. What was fun is that finally I got to put some faces to random names from Christmas letters. You know the type - the ones addressed to the whole family even though they are people your parents only vaguely knew before you were born.
The actual induction service itself was very exciting and there was a real buzz about the place. The service proceeded interspersed with some classic hymns and the Bishop (Lindsay Urwin) gave a quality sermon. Bishop Lindsay was interviewed by Ali G some time back and he is cool. He was a very engaging and amusing preacher, and really delved deep in to the chosen passage from Phillipians. The sermon seemed shorter than it was and he made some quality points, both for my dad as the new vicar and to the people of Billingshurst as a whole. I especially liked his point about the church being in the business of making Jesus Christ of Nazareth known. "To do this we need to know and love Him ourselves, otherwise we won't know what we are talking about."
Talking of Bishops, I think that I saw the Bishop of Oxford in the swimming pool the other day - wearing a pair of speedos. Not cool.
I'd best go get on now, but before I go I want to tell you about the list of past chapel wardens I saw in Merton Chapel this morning. One of them was called Scrope Beardmore. Has anyone ever come across anyone called Scrope? Are you yourself a Scrope? If so please comment and introduce yourself.
Disco.
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