I was just going to post a few anecdotes and funny clips from the weekend, but Jeff’s been sent to Coventry for a few weeks so here are the talks to keep you ticking over till he comes back:
Talk 1: Problems, Source and Purpose of Spiritual Gifts
Talk 2: Distribution and Variety of Spiritual Gifts
Talk 3: Discovering, Using and Developing your Spiritual Gifts
And here’s the bonus features you won’t get on rpc.org:
Why if cooks want people to bring tray bakes and bars to the kitchen they should say it straight out
FAO: Rich Ganz
John George doing a couple of book reviews
Questions people asked Robert R before the 3rd talk
I also recorded a few psalms with the voice recorder on my phone and they turned out quite well: Psalm 123 (Tune: Humility) and Psalm 3 (Tune: Belmont – beautfully raised by James Bun). (Those mp3s won’t play in Winamp for me, but they play in everything else). The singing at camp was amazing as always.
Other than that I don’t have much to say about what was a very good weekend. There were 103 people there including committee and cooks. The Beach Games were cancelled on Saturday for the second year running, but we (those who hadn’t rushed off to play tiddly winks for their club that is) still went and the Western Presbytery drew 10-10 with the rest in a straight 90 minute football match. Big Sam got us all to sign the guestbook at Glenmanus. Alarmingly, Cream Bun spells his own name wrong. I did my usual. I’ve now signed guestbooks at Cregagh Road, Newry (twice I think), Glenmanus, the Sterrett’s and Shakespeare’s birthplace or suchlike in England. I might take it up as a hobby. Although I believe guestbooks are becoming less popular. Peter says that Carrick don’t have one because they (guestbooks) aren’t Scriptural. However that didn’t stop Carrick putting up Christmas Trees and celebrating Halloween (well, Oakfield Community Centre at least!). Oh, and despite the party now being less popular than ever, Andrew A says its set in stone – “the laws of the Medes and Persians and all that”. The boys were particularly grieved that they missed seeing Chelsea get stuffed 3-0 by Middlesborough. If you haven’t seen the goals yet, you can download them here.
STOP PRESS: (I always wanted to say that). I was just about to post this when I found that Alistair Rolleston aka Colin Creevey (for taking loads of pitures) has posted loads of snaps of the weekend on bebo:
Setting up for football on Saturday afternoon. Leeroy’s having a rather animated conversation with me there.
Cromie Robert – the West’s star striker
…Although only after him and John McCune had made another charge up the ‘just clean mad’ charts by running headlong into the sea
Boring girls going for a walk
“Yeah great” as Willy would say
The party – doesn’t it just scream ‘FUN!’ at you?
Joel McCavro – he should hang around with us types more often
Other non-camp (chortle) stuff:
I wasn’t posting that much recently, but I hope you’re all aware of the linkblog over there on the right where I link to (and usually comment on) interesting sites / stories I came across. If you click on the word ‘Linkblog’ it will take you to the archive of all the stuff I’ve posted, so you can see what you’ve missed if the 3 most recent ones have changed since you were last on.
Got my exam results there: 62 (Imperial Germany), 63 (Conquest to Charter ig Medieval English History) and 71 (Plantations and Parliaments ig British History 1600-1660 – I answered a question on ‘How revolutionary were the Covenanters?’ in the exam). Getting a first’s a bit embarrassing, musn’t be playing enough pro evo…
Oh, and I updated my Highlights of 2005 post as I had a few photos I didn’t want to go to waste…