The Simple Pastor

It’s been a couple of weeks since I last did one of these so hopefully there’s some good stuff stored up but this may be the last one I do. I’ve started using twitter for sharing links as it is more immediate form of sharing. You can follow my twitterfeed and there are links plus latest [...]

Just doing a bit of catching up and hopefully clearing the decks again for some more regular blogging (I know I’ve said that a lot recently!), but here are some links to entertain, inform and provoke. Hope you all have a good weekend. There are some amazing photos in this collection about the world’s most [...]

I’ve got to nothing to add. Here are 7 links that stood out to me this week. Hope you have a good weekend This has to be first and there’ll be more posts on this. But I don’t think there could be a clearer illustration of a society having lost it’s moral grip on reality [...]

It’s been a while since I posted one of these, but here are seven links to keep you going, just in time for the weekend. There’s a book vs e-book theme in this one. Before we get to the books, spare a thought, prayer or even better some cash for the billion or so people [...]

So we’re house hunting actively in Stockholm now and I’ll be glad to stop looking at property websites. Here are a few more interesting things to look at, to keep you going over the weekend This is a fascinating insight into missionary work into North Korea Doug Paul argues that in many ways Rob Bell [...]

How did we get to the end of January already? Really, whoever is speeding the world up, stop it. Anyway, a little more eclectic set of links today. Tim Chester has a great post on hearing God speak How to build an extended family and by that Mike Breen means church, sort of. Do universalists [...]

We started language classes yesterday, so hopefully our Swedish will improve. No idea yet of the impact on my English. Anyway a few links to give you some reading material over the weekend. Denis Alexander gives a brief answer to the following question:  ’if we last shared a common ancestor with the chimps about 5-6 million [...]

It was quite cold this week; -6 at one point. No snow yet. Anyhoo, here are seven links to feed the mind through the weekend. There’s a new year resolution type feel to these links. First up is Tim Challies links on how to keep your resolutions Maybe you’ve set some big goals for this [...]

Welcome to the first set of links for 2012. As usual eclectic in every way and in no particular order The debt crisis looks set to be news for the entire coming year. This infographic illustrates some of the problem My friend Jeremy lists his books of 2011. If you want to know what to [...]

The last set of links before Christmas and a particularly random bunch. Sorry about that. Hope the links have been a source of interesting things for you. One more for the year, but trust you’ll have a great Christmas. I use Google every day, me and billions of others. This was our 2011 (HT: Tim Challies) [...]

Dave Matthias has a good post on why he blogs Are you more likely to give if someone asks you or not? Freakonomics looks deeper Joe Snelling has a think about books, facebook and community This weeks infographic shows you where not to own a cheese shop This explains why if a massive skyscraper is [...]

How did it get to be Friday already? Whoever stole my week please give it back! Somehow Matt Hosier manages to link seeing the latest Twilight movie with the conclusion that the financial crisis might not be all bad. Yep, Twilight and the financial crisis. This may be one of the truly unique blog posts. [...]