Day Off Week 40 2024

More like the usual day off pattern on Tuesday, although early on I had to be at the doctor's for a blood test. When I came back I went to my study in the chapel and threw away another pile of sermons. This time it was handwritten ones and that was hard. During the day I read, had a coffee and looked at today's Times (as it had an obituary for Kris Kristofferson). I also tried to make prgress on this project I have to complete in the month or two. In the evening we watched the first episode of Ludwig with David Mitchell and enjoyed it mostly. Then the itv news and sleep.

10 People with reduplicated names

1. Bev Bevan, English drummer with The Move, ELO
2. Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist and TV presenter
3. Kris Kristofferson, American country singer and composer
4. Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian former UN head
5. M(arj)o(rie) Mowlam, English politician
6. Jo(seph) Johnson, English politician and brother of the PM
7. William Williams, Welsh hymn writer and preacher
8. Jerome K Jerome, English novelist
9. Ford Maddox Ford, English novelist
10. Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer

Lord's Day May 31 2015

Every Sunday is different at Childs Hill. Fifth Sundays are perhaps more different than others. We had a good turn out in the morning though we were quite low in the evening. There were a five or six regulars away for various reasons. We had hopefully encouraging sermons that sort of matched. I am not planning to begin a new series in the morning until after the summer so we looked at Psalm 73 in the morning, which I know best from Dr Lloyd-Jones's book The Triumph of Faith. I didn't check out Lloyd-Jones to remind myself of his approach but I'm sure it is there subliminally. In the evening we looked at worrying from the Sermon on the Mount. Previously I have gone through verses 25-34 over two or three weeks but it seemed better to take it all in one go. I ended up quoting three pop songs for some reason (Three little birds, Hands and One day at a time sweet Jesus). I would not be happy with any of those songs but each has snippets of truth - Don't worry about a thing, worry is wasteful and the need to live one day at a time.