365 Albums 196-210

1. Caravan The Rosenberg Trio 1994
2. From the Basement Jan Akkerman 1984/1998
3. Signs of Change After the Fire 1978
4. Focus Live at the Rainbow Focus 1973
5. Reflections Thijs van Leer 1981
6. Ekseption 0.004 Ekseption 1971
7. Abbey Road The Beatles 1969
8. Direct Vangelis 1988
9. Show Some Emotion Joan Armatrading 1977
10. Karine Polwart's Scottish Songbook Karine Polwart 2019
11. Mother Focus Focus 1975
12. Public Service Broadcasting Inform-Educate-Entertain 2013
13. Blues Hearts Jan Akkerman 1994
14. Introspection 4 Thijs van Leer 1977
15. The White Album The Beatles 1968

10 Biographies Recommended by John Wesley

1. Joseph Alleine
2. John Calvin
3. Bernard Gilpin
4. William Whitaker
5. John Donne
6. George Herbert
7. Archbishop Usher
8. John Howe
9. Philip Henry
10. John Eliot

10 Fictional Ships

1. Dawntreader (Voyage of)
2. Pequod (Moby Dick)
3. Hispaniola (Treasure Island)
4. The Unicorn (TinTin)
5. The Poseidon
6. SS Patna (Lord Jim)
7. HMS Thunder Child (War of the Worlds)
8. Jolly Roger (Peter Pan)
9. African Queen
10. Nautilus (20,000 leagues under the sea)

Lord's Day July 26 2020

Great day Sunday. We began with communion at the chapel for members. I think we were about 8 or 9. I read the first part of the communion hymn by Horatius Bonar and then read from part of Luke 22. I focused on verse 15 where Jesus says I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. One of my deacons has bought a thousand small plastic communion cups (made in China I notice). He set out a number of these on a table, some with grape juice in and some with a small piece of bread in. People picked them up as they came in and then at the appropriate point we ate and drank. We closed with me reading the second part of Bonar's hymn.

After short break, after others joined us, we had our main morning service. We were 16 this week so we are slowly rising in numbers. I preached a one off on Luke 11:13. We began and ended with a hymn provided by EMW played over speakers while we sang in a mumble. Others joined us on zoom.

In the afternoon we had some people over to the house - quite a novelty. In the evening it was Zoom again looking at the final verses of Joshua 8. We also had an update from Eduardo Lemos, our member who heads, with his wife Anna Marzia, to Brazil next week to work with a church near Sao Paulo.

Midweek Meeting July 22 2020

Just to note that we did have our usual Midweek zoom time again last Wednesday night. We took a break from 1 Chronicles to begin a short series on Romans 8:28. I just focussed on how the good things work for the good of believers this time - the easy bit. As usual these days we were able to pray and numbers were decent. Good time.

10 Final Works in John Wesley's Christian Library

These from the remaining volumes of which there appear to be thirty

1. The Holy War by John Bunyan
2. A Gospel Glass by Lewis Stuckley
3. The Saints Everlasting Rest by Richard Baxter
4. Extracts from the Works of Stephen Charnock
5. Extracts from the Works of Edward Reynolds
6. The WOrks of Archbishop Tillotson
7. Extracts from the Works of John Flavel
8. The Living Temple by John Howe
9. Nicodemus, or, A Treatise on the Fear of Man by August Hermann Francke
10. Some thoughts concerning the present revival of religion in New‑England by Jonathan Edwards

10 More Works in John Wesley's Christian Library

These are all in Volumes 11-17

1. Memorial of godliness and Christianity by Hubert Palmer
2. The whole duty of man by William Law
3. Extracts from the works of Robert Sanderson
4. Thoughts by Blaise Pascal
5. The great duty of self-resignation to the divine will by John Worthington
6. Extracts from Bishop Ken
7. Alarm to the unconverted by Joseph Alleine
8. The Shorter Catechism
9. Letters of Samuel Rutherford
10. The Works of Hugh Binning

10 Works in John Wesley's Christian Library

The first ten volumes of Wesley's  Christian Library included these works

1. Johan Arndt's True Christianity
2. John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
3. Extracts from the works of Robert Bolton
4. Extracts from the works of  John Preston
5. Extracts from the works of Richard Sibbes
6. Extracts from the works of Isaac Ambrose
7. Extracts from the works of Thomas Goodwin
8. Extracts from the works of Thomas Manton
9. Extracts from the works of Nathaniel Culverwell
10. Extracts from the works of John Owen

Lord's Day July 19 2020

I've left this rather but last Sunday went off okay. In the morning we were 13 in the chapel (one more than the previous week) and about 16 joined us on zoom. In the chapel we sang quietly. There are still some teething problems but we are getting there. I preached on the closing verses of 2 Corinthians 5. In the evening we zoomed and I preached on most of Joshua 8. We also had a recorded update on the work of CCM in The Philippines which was great. Heading back to sme sort of normality perhaps/

10 Places In England

1. Week (Devon)
2. Lordsbury (Surrey)
3. Sunbury (on Thames)
4. Malmesbury
5. Tewkesbury
6. Wednesbury
7. Thornbury
8. Finsbury (Park)
9. Salisbury
10. Bury

10 Valley words

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Vale

1. Dale - a valley, especially in northern England
2. Dell - a small valley, usually among trees
3. Combe - a short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline, especially in southern England
4. Gorge - a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it
5. Glen - a narrow valley, especially in Scotland or Ireland.
6. Gully - a ravine formed by the action of water
7. Gulch - a narrow and steep-sided ravine marking the course of a fast stream
8. Ravine - a deep, narrow gorge with steep sides
9. Strath - a broad mountain valley

(Also dingle, canyon, pass, clough, etc)

Midweek Meeting July 15 2020

A little different once again. I went over to the chapel to deliver the message as we wanted to try out our zoom ability there. All seems to be fine now. We tackled a bit more of 1 Chronicles - I'm beginning to get into a good pattern now where the reading of the Scriptures is integrated into the message, which works well. We'll probably take a break next week, nevertheless. It was great to have around 20 on the screen and we had a good time of prayer.

10 Works of fiction Penelope Fitzgerald

1. The Golden Child (1977)
2. The Bookshop (1978)
3. Offshore (1979)
4. Human Voices (1980)
5. At Freddie's (1982)
6. Innocence (1986)
7. The Beginning of Spring (1988)
8. The Gate of Angels (1990)
9. The Blue Flower (1995)
10. The Means of Escape (2000)*

*Short stories the others are all novels. I've read most of them.

Day Off Week 29 2020

Things are beginning to get back to normal. Following a reconnoitring trip the day before I found that at our nearby O2 shopping centre a branch of the Soho Coffee Company is not only letting you sit down there but is serving the coffee in China. So I took a copy of a recently purchased novel Human voices by Penelope Fitzgerald and had a good read. In fact the book is such an easy read I had it finished before the day was over. It is the one most like her first Golden Child and features the BBC during the war. it is full of gentle humour and a silvery undertone of sadness punctuated by brilliant turns of phrase from time to time.the novel.

Wild Horses

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