House Hunting

Since I just started my new job yesterday, Tim and I are very excited to start looking for a place of our own. It will be great to get to set up house in our own space, and now that I am working it will be easier to get going with that plan. It just so happens that David Lee Estate Agency is in Stansted and Lee (of David Lee) lives 2 doors down so we have talked to him about finding us a place. Above are some pictures of houses in Stansted and Bishop's Stortford which is typical of the houses that are around here. The one with the cream and brick house is a few houses together which is typical as well and these houses are called character cottages. That means that they have quaint features and are much older. The new houses are like the one on the left which are much more modern but thoroughly boring looking inside and out. So I think we are going for a character cottage (which will be small but hopefully we can make it work). All the houses are smaller here anyway so it's a non issue and at lease we will get to be on our own!

Tim Got Dunked!

Just a quick note to say that Tim got baptized on Easter Sunday at our church. He has been a Christian since childhood but never took this brave step. He was a little nervous talking in front of the church but did a great job and even got dunked in twice because he didn't go all the way under the first time! It was a good day. His parents and his brother came and all of our friends were there supporting Tim. I am very proud of him!

Book Review: The Reason for God

I read this in 2 days because I borrowed it from a friend and I had enough spare time to do so. It was a good, logical and well organized discussion of some of the key arguments against God with practical explanations of evidence for the existence of God. It also covered why and how the God of Christianity is the only true God without being preachy or trite. A good read for initial research into Christian apologetics. Next, I will get into more detail with writings by C.S. Lewis and Ravi Zacharias who are both brilliant and can get into a different intellectual realm when it comes to these tough discussions. But, this one is definitely easy to digest without leaving out important details which is why it is so good. Check it out!

Book Review: Deception Point

Dan Brown again! I read his other books, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons in that order and finally got around to this one. I have to say that his books are good for a page turner and a quick and easy read. That is good because they are a bit like an action adventure movie with more action than character development or other literary aspects. There are a lot exciting plot twists which you come to expect with his writing and start to predict after getting to know his style. Apparently there is one other book by him that I could read, Digital Fortress, but by now I may be able to completely predict the entire book's worth of plot twists so I am not sure it will be worth it. So I will probably wait a while before I go after that one once I finish my reading list (which is pretty long). Anyway this one is about a scientific discovery that comes at a critical time during a presidential election, and the details of the discovery could have a dramatic effect on the election as well as the world of science in general. So if you like science, you might actually see all the holes in his scientific events and descriptions and therefore may not be all that gripped by it, but if you can just enjoy it however far-fetched it may be, it is an exciting ride.

Book Review: Journey Into God's Heart

I have just finished reading a book by Jennifer Rees Larcombe who is an famous English Christian speaker and writer. She came from a Christian family heavily involved in ministry and quite famous in the UK. Her story is about a lot of things in her life. This is a book she wrote much after many of her other ones about God healing her and other spiritual topics. This one is very personal though. She admits a lot about herself and her difficulties and what is really going on under the surface of a life like hers. She has certainly been through a lot, but the great thing about the book isn't that she dealt with everything amazingly well and God just brought her through it and made everything work out (cause a lot didn't) but that she told how she learned things from simple occurrences in her life and how she processed through them going through all kinds of phases and learning to accept different things along the way. I can't really describe it well, but it is very interesting and encouraging for anyone living a Christian life.