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Neil

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About Me

I'm a collection of influences
- I'm an influence
I'm a collection of relationships
- I'm in a relationship
I'm a collection of knowledge
- I know very little, really
I'm a collection of wisdom
- I have no wisdom but that God gives me
I'm a collection of ideas
- I probably don't have any really new ones
I'm a collection of sins
- I'm a cleansed and free man in Christ
I'm a collection of goodness
- I have no goodness without Christ
I'm a collection of dreams and ambitions
- I've handed them all over to God
I'm a collection of dust breathed on by God
- I'll return to dust one day
I'm a mortal man
- I'll be immortal one day

You can also find me on facebook!

My Interests



Music:

Debussy, Del Amitri, Queen, Chopin, Jars of Clay, Vangelis, lots more, including
Fant and Frantic

Delirious
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Books:

Lots and lots of them. Currently reading: Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell

My Blog

A Sad Two Days for Britain

In the past two days, our MPs have had a chance to vote morally, to prevent the further erosion of our degraded standards. But they didn't. They voted to allow the creation of animal-human hybrids f...
Posted by Neil on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:59:00 PST

Beliefs and Actions

How many times has someone asked you, "Do you believe in..." about something like, say, stock options, smacking children, the existence of UFOs, or maybe eating meat. Logically, you could answer, yes,...
Posted by Neil on Sun, 11 May 2008 02:41:00 PST

Big Fish at Easter

On Easter Sunday, a TV channel showed the film Big Fish. I watched it with my parents, my Mum thought it was miserable. A lot of people might think that this film is nothing whatsoever to do with East...
Posted by Neil on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:17:00 PST

Seven Predictions for 2008 (For Ryan)

Ryan posts predictions for the coming year, so here are mine:1) General - this will be a dramatic year. There are humdrum years and dramatic ones, this will be a dramatic one with a number of issues c...
Posted by Neil on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:40:00 PST

Eternal or Everlasting?

Something I think about when I have a bit of brain space is the nature of our salvation. To what are we called? Most people think they know the answer to this, it's easy, we're going to be resurrected...
Posted by Neil on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:59:00 PST

Passion vs Balance

Be passionate! But don't forget to lead a balanced lifestyle. Aren't these two things mutually exclusive? I have found myself pulled apart by these two opposing forces in the past few months, with bal...
Posted by Neil on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:55:00 PST

Compassion or Condemnation?

I was having an interesting conversation with a friend a few weeks ago, about Muslims.I argued that as Christians, we should have compassion on them, because they are slaves to a lie, passionate and d...
Posted by Neil on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:07:00 PST

Life - Packed to the Max!

I've not posted anything about life recently... so here's an update!Let's see. Up to mid-August, we were in a state of flux. My income wasn't quite enough to keep us, I had no opportunities to increas...
Posted by Neil on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:56:00 PST

Intellectual honesty in your faith

Richard Dawkins is presenting a television series on Channel 4 at the moment. The subject is how dangerous all forms of superstition are to society - supersition of course including all forms of relig...
Posted by Neil on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:47:00 PST

A little encouragement to my day

I received a newsletter from OM, an organisation with whom I've had a lot of contact but none recently, which really encouraged me.They have an outreach called "Operation Mercy", which provides relie...
Posted by Neil on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:29:00 PST