One of the things that really stood out to me last week was something Mike Breen said in the last evening talk I recorded. He was talking about how we communicate the message of Jesus to our present culture. The thing that really stood out was this…

“we live in a culture that is high tech and low touch, surrounded by people who long for low tech, high touch relationships.”

As you can probably see, yesterday was spent decluttering the sidebar of my blog. For some reason I’m having issues at the moment with blogger, gmail and the settings on my computer.

This morning my New York Lock arrived, weighing in at a hefty 3.8kg. It’s definately a beast of a lock and should keep bike theives away, but I’m not sure if the weight is a little excessive (it’s about half a stone for those of you on different measurements). I might exchange it for the New York 3000 D-Lock (pictured right)…

Today Mark and I cycled up to Castell Coch, in Tongwynlais. As we rode up the hill, who should pull up but the Turrigianos on their first visit to the holy land. How surreal that we’d be in the same place at the same time.

Sharon is now blogging.

I’m back! I know I said I’d be gone 2 weeks, but I’ve discovered that when it comes to the conference/festival thing I’m really not all that hardcore. One week at New Wine was enough.