Dr Adrian WarnockA blog by this UK based Christian Psychiatrist, preacher and Father to 4 childrenGood Friday Agreement- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Chatting with the wife about my posts from yesterday she described what happened between me and God as my own personal Good Friday agreement with the Almighty. Fortunately although even I probably bent the agreement as much as it seems the Irish Good Friday agreement has been, God has never suspended it and I keep coming back to it. It really is SUCH a good deal on offer don't you think I cant see why anyone wouldnt vote for it.http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200169266 Risk aversion- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Our natural tendancy to risk aversion fascinates me this article Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Girl, 13, dies after being hit on head by remote-controlled model plane immediately makes me question my long held desire to buy such a ultimate boys toy and yet I am quite happy to drive on the roads knowing full well that according to one magazine if I start driving for work I will be as likely to be killed as a quary worker. How we perceive risk is not at all clear, with even regular fliers...http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200161376 Put away childish things- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Last Sunday I spoke on legalism as being dead religion that occurs when God seems distant. Unfortunately much Christianity seems to advocate just such a view. No wonder Ludovic Kennedy in Guardian Unlimited: Put away childish things today stated Every week in their churches Christians belt out in hymn after hymn that "God" is just and merciful and wise, yet also, they claim, invisible, inaccessible and silent as night. These attributes are contradictory, for if the latter are true, the former..http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200161712 Blair generation- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Blair apparently said "My generation enjoy a thousand material advantages over any previous generation. And yet we suffer a depth of insecurity and spiritual doubt they never knew... Mine is the generation with more freedom than any other but less certainty in how to exercise it responsibly." Blair concluded by urging his audience: "Together we can make this the young country of my generation's dreams." Guardian Unlimited The Guardian The Blair generationHis analysis is accurate, how sad that.http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200161749 411th London blogger!- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Well this is something new the London bloggers tube map has me as their 411th London blogger, and you can find me by clicking on Walthamstow my local tube staton. This is a really neat bit of programing that may help bring londoners together. Funny we spend our time on the tube mostly trying to ignore each other (although a massive fire at a nearby shop at Walthamstow helped me to break the ice with another commuter today!) then go online and want to meet up! Having had four bodies pressed...http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200163735 UKBlogs Aggregator- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This blog thing never ceases to amaze me in its all new tecnology, take a look at the UKBlogs Aggregator this will show you summaries of all the latest posts at UK Blogs (which must only register at weblogs.co.uk to joinUnfortunately there seems to be an obligation to use a UK in the web address so I had to improvise with some free webspace I have never used at doctors.org.uk as a front page. The use of which website proves incidently that I am indeed a UK based doctor, honest!!! If you are by..http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200163868 Preaching the gospel of blog- (Found July 2, 2008 ) It seems to me that if you have a message to share like the Weblog pioneer who preaches the gospel of blog then Blogging may well be a good opportunity. Actually if you are looking for a good description of what blogs are that is a great article. I do love this quote from it He's a preacher with a projection screen which could refer to me on a Sunday morning.http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200164115 Crucifixion- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Once again in The Philipines as ABS-CBNNEWS.COM report Enaje will reprise his role least year as the main Kristo. He will reenact the via crucis or Christs way of the cross, complete with whippings and the weeping women of Jerusalem. He has been nailed to the cross 16 times. The Sangalang brothers have been crucified 14 times and Velez 15. ........Six-inch, stainless-steel nails will be driven by hammers through the palms and in some cases through the feet of some of the penitents as they...http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200165217 Burial box of Jesus's brother- (Found July 2, 2008 ) No one has ever found Jesus' bones but it seems that they have found the box that held his brothers according to todays Telegraph Tests on a 2,000-year-old stone box support claims that it once held the bones of James, said to have been the brother of Jesus and an important early Christian leader, scientists have concluded. Whilst we cannot be sure and this story has been around for a while they say that the odds on a prominent Jesus being named a brother on a box with the father named as...http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200165296 Banger racing or Easter parade- (Found July 2, 2008 ) An interesting dilemna- I was asked to an Easter March and despite my churchgoing tendancies I think Spedeworth International wins- now to persuade my family!http://www.adrian.warnock.info#200165419 |