Giving up Social Media for Lent? Think Again…

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Something that I get very frustrated in seeing are people saying that they are going to give up Facebook/Twitter, etc. for Lent. Vicky Beeching has written a post today in which she summarises well why so many are doing this: The ethos surrounding these sort of statements are ‘I’m fed up with being so distracted’ or, ‘this [...]

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Week 4: Challenges #BigRead12 #Koinonia

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Nibbles Last week did we achieve anything?  One read a bit more of the Bible, not as much as planned, but congratulated on progress! Bex did lots of new things – one that may seem odd is that she decided to listen to her body, not go to Boxercise and slept for 6 hours Friday [...]

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Week 3: Expectations #BigRead12 #Koinonia

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Nibbles We talked about positive experiences from childhood that have impacted on us in the modern day. Mary’s time in school grounds led to taking up her role in Learning Through Landscapes. Bex, as a ‘new action’, was re-inspired to start preparing for the Great South Run, with a phone call from the NSPCC, although [...]

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The Big Bible Project Round-Up: 1-14 February 2012

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#BigBible Darren Hill gave us five things to look for when reading the Bible. Nancy Wallace has continued her series looking at women of the gospels – this time Simon Peter’s mother in law, who had a ministry of hospitality,  opening up bigger questions about women’s role in the church. News stories identified that Bible reading leads to increased [...]

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Why has @krishk got involved in #BigRead12?

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The other day, I was at a meeting at the Evangelical Alliance, and I grabbed Krish Kandiah for a quick chat about The Big Read 2012, why he’d agreed to offer a week’s reflections, and why his church is involved. With a week to go before #BigRead12 starts, let’s re-run that: Chatting with @krishk about [...]

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Quiet Time with Pinterest #digidisciple (@drbexl)

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After re-reading Holly Poulter’s post on PinInterest, and this recent Slideshare find on PinInterest, I decided to chase up a personal invite – and thanks to @grahamcrosbie who was the first to respond. I had a bit of a play the first day with adding a ‘PinBoard’ with ‘Places I’d like to Go‘ – God [...]

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You Are Loved #HappyValentines

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Source: 30.media.tumblr.com via Paula on Pinterest   Pinned to my PinInterest ‘Faith’ board. A great encourager to those of us who don’t think we have a reason to ‘celebrate’ Valentine’s Day.

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Week 2: Echoes #BigRead12 #Koinonia

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One of our group works for BT, and happened to mention that they allow people to set up charity websites for free, with the ability to collect monies. Anyway, here’s how my housegroup ‘Koinonia’ got on with Week 2 of #BigRead12. Nibbles Did we do our activities from last week? Our family went to a [...]

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The Big Bible Project Round-Up: 15-31 January 2012

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Welcome to another newsletter from The Big Bible Project, it’s been an exciting couple of weeks, with lots of great content to share with you. #BigBible We’re keen to get people talking about the Bible, and others have also been encouraging that. Helen Nicholls went to an event launching The 2012. In a world in [...]

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