From around the web...

June 21, 2011
in Random

Here’s a few articles I’ve read recently that are helpful and challenging:

In Reminders Are More Effective Than Rebukes, Tullian Tchividjian reminds us of the need as Christians to regularly remind each other of who we are in Christ, rather than focusing on our sin and that we re-focus on Jesus for “because of Christ’s work on your behalf, God does not dwell on your sin the way you do”

A prayer for strength for one of those days: Dear Lord Jesus, it’s looking like one of THOSE days ... Am I whining? Yes I am, Lord, but I’m bringing my bad attitude and my very busy day to you.

10 Things That Keep Us From Mission looks to be a challenging series on the Resurgence and well worth following.

In Speaking with Contempt, Tim Keller warns against the natural temptation to respond to criticism with self-righteous contempt towards the critic.

Would you record a Psalm for me?

May 5, 2011
in Bible Study

For a while, I’ve been wondering about putting together a different kind of audio bible, one with a different person reading each chapter, but I didn’t get very far with it — so I’ve decided to test this out and collect recordings of the first 30 psalms for my 30th birthday.

So please could you record me a psalm for my birthday?

Reserve your psalm in the comments below and then you can either post a link to the recording or email me the file ( ricky at this domain). Please can you include with the recording which Psalm it is and your name.

I will share all the recordings with those who record one, so sending me one recording should hopefully get you a set of 30 psalms!

Systems Bar

April 14, 2011
in Design
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Systems Bar Screenshot

New systems bar for HostDB shows the number of systems with actions required and has quick links to recent system records viewed.

Banana & Chocolate chip muffins

February 13, 2011
in Food
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Had a lovely afternoon making these Banana & Chocolate chip muffins with Abi and Jessica:

I’d used the last 2 eggs at lunchtime so when we decided to do some cooking I searched for recipes without eggs — turns out that the best thing to search for is eggless recipes. I then found the recipe for these muffins which after I made a couple of alterations to, we had all the ingredients for. We all had fun making them and they were delicious, although unfortunately I decided to only make half the quantities so we only had 6! The recipe with my alterations is below (makes 6)

Ingredients

  • 1 cup self raising flour
  • ¼ cup oats
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 6 squares of chocolate (chopped up)
  • 2 bananas (mashed)
  • ¼ cup sunflower oil
  • 2 tblsp water

Directions

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 190°C
  2. Mix the mashed banana, oil and sugar and water together to create a smooth paste.
  3. Mix in the flour, oats and chocolate pieces.
  4. Spoon carefully into muffin cases, about 3 tsp of mixture per case
  5. Cook for 20 minutes.