Nigel Ring on May 19th, 2011

If you live in the UK you will be pleased to know there is a Social Action Conference ‘Churches that change communities‘ planned for October 1st. I urge you to be there! Click on the photo to enlarge it if needed. You can register here.

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Nigel Ring on February 11th, 2010

What is a diary?
Traditionally diaries have been for recording history. Many books have been written as a result of people keeping diaries of their daily events and these have given us fascinating insights into life and culture in different eras and nations.
Elizabeth Fry
I have just been reading a biography of the great prison reformer in [...]

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What does God think?
Before we discuss specifics about Time Management I want to take just one posting to consider briefly what God’s view of time is.
In Ps 90 the psalmist tells us to ‘number our days’ (v12) having already told us in verse 10 that ‘the years of our life are seventy, or even by [...]

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Nigel Ring on January 4th, 2010

Do you feel in control of your time? I think I can help you!
25 years ago I recognised that I was very inefficient at managing my time despite the fact I had been heading up a research team in Rehabilitation Engineering for 15 years. I had never heard the expression ‘Time Management’ and started to [...]

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I have been writing this blog for about 6 months and am aware of a growing following, so some may have missed the early material. To help you find that material it seems appropriate at the turn of the year to Index these 6 months. Clicking on the Topic will take you to the first [...]

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Nigel Ring on December 21st, 2009

I am taking a break from my blog over Christmas in order to focus on celebrating with my family. However, in wishing you a very happy Christmas I would like to share with you some photos of stars I discovered on the Hubble Telescope site. Since stars feature in the Christmas story it seems appropriate [...]

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Nigel Ring on December 17th, 2009

I have two friends who are part of Harvest of Grace Church in Mumbai, India. For several years they have given themselves selflessly to caring for those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS among the poor and destitute of Mumbai. (Their personal story comes at the end of this posting.) On receiving a report [...]

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1Ti 3:2  Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach
Continuing to look at the character qualifications related to an Administrator the next phrase in this verse is:
‘.. the husband of one wife..’
Although this should need little exposition in the context of the western [...]

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Full of the Spirit and wisdom
Returning to our examination of qualities that make a good Administrator we shall now look at Acts 6:3. Here we see that the apostles specify that the candidates must be ‘full of the Spirit and wisdom’. In times of tension, which undoubtedly was the case with the particular dispute that [...]

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Job vacancy!
We live in an upside down Kingdom. When advertising a post the world will pay great attention to the qualifications needed for the job – a degree in Business Administration or Economics may be a good start. However, the Bible does not seem to be particularly interested in such information, concentrating more on spiritual [...]

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