May 13 2012
Preached this morning at St Francis’, at the 9.15 service. The text was Mark 1.14-20 and, it being the second Sunday of the month, it’s a break from our regular series – currently on the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Download the sermon in Ogg Vorbis or MP3.
I posted a Wordle with some thoughts as I prepared earlier in the week.
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May 12 2012
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This week’s update is a day later than usual and it’s in incredibly small degree of change from the bonus update on Monday. In the intervening time, there’s been a day when I was unwell that will have balanced out the meal out we enjoyed. So here’s the all [un]important numbers:
Weight unchanged then. In fact, so much so that my BMI reading was identical to last time.
On to the next week.
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May 10 2012
On Sunday, I’m preaching from Mark 1.14-20 and here it is as a Wordle:
So we can see, the call of Jesus goes to James and John as it does to Simon and Andrew as it does to us. It is a call to discipleship, to follow him – and so to be part of a movement that involves fishing, searching, looking for others who will also join it.
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May 07 2012
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That’s right, lovely reader, a bonus set of pound-shedding data! Am I good to you or what?
Okay, perhaps best not to answer that.
Anyway, I did an extra weigh-in yesterday so there are new numbers:
The Wii Fit Age is unchanged from Friday but I dropped 3lb. That’s probably largely down to the fact that I did a lot of walking on Saturday.
It means that 2½ weeks in, I’m 1lb down which is a good start in my view.
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May 04 2012
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This week’s numbers:
I’ve almost given up already on caring about my weight because I know from my clothes that I’m getting slimmer – they are feeling gradually looser. Nevertheless, the competitive part of me wants to beat the goal I set myself so I’ll press on.
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Apr 27 2012
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This week I’ve deviated slightly from the rules so I was expecting a gain in weight. We had a guest overnight on Wednesday and ordered a curry. That’s allowed. I had a couple of beers with it (because, you have to, right?). That’s not. So here’s this week’s numbers:
I also today had a large lunch in anticipation of light dinner. Normally it’s the other way around so like-for-like, that’s probably more like a return to the starting weight of 13st 4lb. My Wii Fit Age is still a good few years below my actual age so all-in-all, I’m satisfied this week I think.
Update: I did a 25 minute work-out which resulted in me losing the 2lb I’d gained in the last week. It also meant that my legs were aching so I did badly on the balance tests it gave me so my Wii Fit Age went up to 39!
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Apr 25 2012
Last night was our Annual Parochial Church Meeting, my first as Vicar of St Francis’. At the meeting, we launched the new Vision Document and strap-line for the parish.
You can download the audio, the document and my presentation here. The audio is, as always, available in Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format.
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Apr 23 2012
Preached yesterday at St Francis’, Luton. The text was 1 Corinthians 12.1-11. Last week, I posted some thoughts as I was preparing.
You can also see the accompanying presentation as a PDF.
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Apr 20 2012
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Well, this hasn’t gone according to plan. Four days of extreme discipline. No chocolate, cake, crisps, beer, wine, sweets of any kind, biscuits has resulted in weight gain of 6lb!
Here are the extremely perplexing numbers:
No, I don’t understand either!
Update: I left it five minutes and did another body test, this revealed a weight of 13st 9lb and Wii Fit Age of 28. Go figure!
Update 2: It turns out that I’d put the Wii Fit Balance Board on a bit of a slope in our living room today (that’s another story!). I moved it back to the flat bit where it had been on Monday and retested:
That’s more like it.
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