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Der Frühling ist nicht mehr zu stoppen.
Neues Leben durchströmt die kahlen Äste und lässt neues Grün aufbrechen.
Metamorphosis is the scientific name
for the change of an ungainly, crawling caterpillar
into a delicate, flying butterfly.
The word is from a Greek word
meaning “transformed.”
My Easter greeting!
more than a greeting ...
an encouragement.
xoxoxoxo
The Bevo fox called "Reynard" may be seen on the back seat.
In 1908, Busch directed his chief chemist to develop a non-alcoholic beverage that tasted nearly the same as beer. It was called “Bevo,” and it was an immediate success after its 1916 introduction, selling more than 2.2 million cases in six months. Production rose greatly with national prohibition in 1919, and “Bevo” was by far the most popular of the many “near beers” of the time. In the 1920s, though, “Bevo” sales cratered with the rest of the near beer market. With sales flattening to 100,000 cases by 1929, Anheuser-Busch stopped production. [Sources: The History Channel & Wikipedia]
1. My children's room, 2. before, 3. P1100994, 4. Toy Storage, 5. basement/playroom, 6. Don't know what the hell I did, 7. Untitled, 8. Four year olds accumulate a lot of clutter, 9. Zoe's "girly modern" Nursery, 10. Playroom after, 11. 書房的牆上又釘了兩個層板, 可以放些重量較輕的展示品. , 12. Boy's bedroom, 13. The Kid Area, 14. Untitled, 15. DSC08936, 16. 080210_0154
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. In keeping with my Easter theme, this is the Friday shot. John 19:30 says Jesus last words were, "It is done". To those around him, those following...this was indeed their lowest moment. Rather than an end, it was just a beginning.
This was shot at a church where I was a second shooter for a wedding back in November. When I took this shot I planned to upload it to Flickr for Good Friday.
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1. ikea玩具收纳, 2. Ausflug > IKEA, 3. Clutter Control!, 4. Miss P's room, 5. fallcolor, 6. Israel's desk area, 7. Reading corner, 8. Poppy and Ramona, 9. P1100409, 10. Ava's Room, 11. Alena in my studio, 12. bookshelf, 13. Nursery, 14. Wille's room, 15. A Fresh Look - Southern Boy's room, 16. storage in front of storage
When I began with this one, I didn't want it to be dull, so I used a lot of colours. I was afraid it would be too much, but after all I think it is all right.
What do you think?
Yes they are thousand chocolate chip recipes but not many done if any this way,
They are very chew with pure large 2000 count dark chocolate chips,
the new creation is they are filled with Cannoli cream,
Baking time is precise 7 minutes at 400 F
Made these for my Nephews Birthday,
Unfortunately the game was running late like any other Super Bowl so we had to go home for some rest:-)
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This one I finished yesterday. It is hard to get the right colours today on the picture, it is too cloudy outside..
Again, I didn't plan anything, just begun with the red pieces, the leaves came much later, and I finished with the white pieces, in fact the most work, because it has to fit!
New, handmade texture. Ok to use for your private artwork but not for commercial nor resale. Please do not use my stock to make other stock.
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This is a view of Muller House from Narroways Hill. And if you're a resident of Bristol and haven't been to Narroways you certainly should go there! You can see where it is on Wikimapia or by clicking on the above Flickr map. To get there go up Stottbury Road, off Muller Road. When you reach the top you'll see a narrow pathway opposite Allfoxton Road. That takes you to Narroways. You'll get good views of the City as well as of Muller House itself.
The Grade II Listed building known as Muller House is well known to me and the countless other students and staff of the various Bristol colleges that have used it over the years. It's one of five buildings erected on the site by George Ferdinand Müller, an extraordinary German pastor and benefactor who was born on 27 September 1805 in the small Prussian town of Kroppenstedt about 30km northeast of the Harz Mountains between Hannover and Berlin. In 1810, the family moved to a village that Müller refers to as Heimersleben 6 km from Kroppenstedt where his father worked as a tax collector. In fact the village may have been Hamersleben which is 20 km northwest of Kroppenstedt
In his early years George Müller was far from virtuous. A spoilt son of an indulgent father, he became – even before he was ten years old – a habitual thief and fraudster. He would even purloin government funds that were entrusted to his father. In spite of his misdemeanours, George's father wanted his son to enter the Church so he sent him to the Cathedral School in Halberstadt. Later he attended a school at Nordhausen and finally the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. But, during his adolescence, he became a compulsive gambler and drunkard. And his behaviour gradually worsened until the Christmas period of 1821 when, aged 16, he spent 24 days in prison. Yet, at the age of 20, not only was he a student at a Lutheran university but – still as decadent as ever – he was accepted as a candidate for holy orders with permission to preach.
However, after a pleasure-seeking visit to Switzerland, a change came over George Müller. He made a full confession to his father and attended a prayer meeting led by an unsophisticated tradesman called Johann Wagner. The debauched but educated George Müller was by then well accustomed to high-flown religious services – and they left him cold – but Wagner's lowly prayer meeting was life-changing. Müller put his years of decadence behind him. He determined to live a life of active Godliness and, thereafter, attended Wagner's weekly prayer meeting whenever he could.
For a while his principal preoccupation was to attempt to convert Jews to Christianity but, in 1827, he spent two months in free lodgings provided in the orphan houses in Halle established a century earlier by August Hermann Francke. While there he learnt about how, starting from a single small house, Francke had set up network of orphanages in Halle. Then, in June 1828, the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews invited him to London on six months, probation. However, being a Prussian citizen, he was required to complete three years' military service. Fortuitously, having tried but failed to obtain exemption, he contracted an illness that left him unfit for service. He was therefore free to take up his London appointment.
In March, 1829, George Müller finally took up his post in London and started his work with a study of Hebrew and Chaldee. One of his fellow probationers told him about Anthony Norris Groves, an Exeter dentist who had given up his well-paid job and, with wife and children, gone to Persia to work as a missionary. During his study, George became ill again and, after a spell in hospital, was advised on medical grounds, to move to Teignmouth in Devon. During his recuperation in Teignmouth, Müller took the opportunity to study the Scriptures as never before. On returning to London he proclaimed that he was much better in body and soul. But he had also decided that the work of converting Jews to Christianity was not his forte and he therefore tendered his resignation to the Society.
Early in 1830 Müller was invited by his friends in Teignmouth to become the minister at the town's Ebenezer Chapel. The Chapel is still there though it's now the town's Gospel Hall (see the photo in the 3rd comment below). Müller accepted the invitation with some reluctance as, at that time, his command of English was not good. However he was helped in that respect by a Scottish evangelist by the name of Henry Craik. He was to become Müller's life-long friend and helper. Also in 1830, since he was now close to Exeter, Müller made a point of contacting Mary Groves, sister of the Anthony Groves the dentist who had become a missionary in Persia. On 7 October that year, they were married in St Davids Church, Exeter.
In 1832 the Müllers moved to Bristol where Müller became joint pastor of Bethesda Chapel that was then in Great George Street but was destroyed by a bomb in 1941. There were, at the time, many orphans in Bristol and George Müller couldn't help but remember the three months he had spent lodging in the orphan houses of August, Hermann Franke in Halle. In 1836 George and Mary Müller adapted their home to care for 30 orphaned girls. More room was soon required so they purchased houses in Wilson Street, St Pauls (now demolished). They housed 130 children, but that was still nothing like enough to house the many hundreds of orphans in the Bristol area. The Müllers response in 1849 was to open the first of five purpose-built orphanages on the hill at Ashley Down. Although they soon became known as the Muller Orphanages or, more often, the Muller Homes, that was never a name favoured by Müller himself. By 1870, 2,000 children were housed on the site. George Müller never went into debt, and never made a public appeal for donations, working on the principle that, if he had faith, God would provide.
One of the principal benefactors was another strongly religious German who had settled in Bristol. Conrad Finzel was a farmer’s son born in about 1790 in a village near Frankfurt. While still in his teens he fled to Britain to avoid being drafted into Napoleon’s army. He made his way to Bristol and started work in a in a sugar refinery. By 1830 he had founded Finzel's Sugar Refinery in the City. It was very lucrative but, in 1846, it was destroyed by fire. Many would have merely thought "What have I done to do deserve this". But, as was written in 1868 in The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 55 *, Finzel reflected more deeply on what had happened:
"I then asked myself"; he said some time afterwards, in terms eminently characteristic of the man, "what Conrad Finzel had done to call for this chastening stroke from God; and after thinking for some time, the truth flashed upon me. The Almighty had punished me because I had not given to His uses as He had blessed me. He had greatly increased my store, and I had only helped the poor in the same proportion as when I had little. Thus I deserved punishment, and God sent me this affliction to remind me of my duty, so, instead of giving so and so, I said, I will give one-third of my gains, for the future. I have given them, and God has gone on blessing me."
Finzel gave freely to all sorts of charitable institutions, but most freely of all to the remarkable Orphan House established on Ashley Hill, by his countryman, the Rev. George Müller. During some years it was reckoned, his gifts thereto amounted to £10,000 a year. When near his end, a friend once spoke to him of the misfortune that his death would prove to the institution. "What has the life of George Müller, or Conrad Finzel, or anyone else," he answered, "to do with the Orphan House? It is God's work, and God will take care of it when there is not one of us left." In that temper Conrad Finzel lived and worked in Bristol for nearly forty years. He died at Wiesbaden, while on a visit to his native land, on the 21st of October, 1859.
The five houses of the orphanage were constructed to designs by John Foster & Son during the 25 years that followed 1845. At the time of their construction they were designated by numbers that reflected the order in that they were built. Only later were they assigned the names by which they are known today. Number one, now Allen House, was constructed between 1847 and 1849. Brunel House followed in 1857 and Muller House itself in 1862. The two remaining houses, Davy and Cabot were built in 1868. There's an artist's impression of how the site looked at the time here in which Muller House is front centre.
The decade following 1865 saw many changes in George Müller's life. In 1866 his life-long friend, Henry Craik died and, on 6 February 1870, his wife Mary also died at the age of 72. Later the same year his daughter Lydia married his assistant James Wright. Then late in 1871 George himself re-married. His new bride was Susannah Grace Sangar, whom he had known for 25 years. Finally, in 1875 George Müller handed over full responsibility to Wright and started a programme of preaching first in Britain, Europe and America and later in countries such as Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Ceylon and India.
In 1894, after 23 years of marriage, Müller's second wife, Susannah died. By then George himself was 89 and was living in House Number 3 – the building featured in the photo that's now known as Muller house. He preached his last sermon on 6 March, 1898 at Alma Road Chapel in Clifton and, four days later was found by his maid dead on the floor by the side of his bed. His funeral on 14 March was Bristol's largest by far. Tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets – among them thousands of the orphans who had owed their start in life to George Müller. He was buried by the side of his two wives. He had never sought money for its own sake and died a poor man with few possessions.
After George Müller's death, his son-in-law, James Wright, continued to run the orphanage until his own death in 1905. Well before that James had made arrangements for his colleague George Frederick Bergin to take over as Hononory Director. George duly took on the job with the help of his two sons, Fred and William, both doctors. Fred died in 1910 followed, two years later, by George himself. William Bergin ran the orphanage until 1930 when he also died and Alfred Green was appointed Honorary Director. The next Director was Green's assistant and brother-in-law, Thomas Tilsley in 1940 who was succeeded in 1952 by John McCready the last director to have charge of the Ashley Down site.
In 1958 the Orphanages were relocated and the buildings became the home of a succession of colleges: Bristol Technical College, Brunel Technical College, various faculties of Bristol Polytechnic and finally the Ashley Down Centre of the City of Bristol College. Some of the buildings – including Muller House itself, were converted to flats when they were no longer required by the College.
In the closing years of the 20th century, the City of Bristol College decided to relocate about 60% of its teaching accommodation to a new purpose-built campus in Bristol's Harbourside. In the year 2000 listed building consent was given for residential conversion of all the orphanage buildings. The college wanted to finance this project by demolishing three of Müller's buildings and replacing them with a housing scheme. Predictably, the proposal triggered a hostile reaction from the local community. The college reconsidered their approach and came up with the idea of an "urban village". As at January 2012 that hasn't happened – if it ever will. However, Muller House itself has been converted into flats and in 2012 an application was submitted and accepted for the conversion of Allen House to 44 residential apartments. Meanwhile (as at Dec 21012), the other three houses are still in use by the College.
The five simple but imposing grey buildings at Ashley Down have long since ceased to be orphanages, but George Müller's legacy lives on in the form of the George Müller Charitable Trust. It's located at another Müller House – at 7 Cotham Park, Bristol– and has wider aims than those envisaged by the Founder. They include the advancement of citizenship and community development, particularly among children and families, young people and the elderly, and the relief of those who are in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantages, including deprivation of normal parental care.
For photos of George Müller and the people and places that were associated with him visit www.georgemuller.org/photos.html
* The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 55 by William Scott, Francis Garden and James Bowling Mozley, 1868.
Robert Cutts, bob@winton.me.uk
A list of sources will be added in due course.
freelance video for Christ the Rock Community Church. Eric Gamero (themishmash) per his usual awesomeness was the one who developed the artwork for this:
Spencer's imagining of resurrection at his village church yard.
I spoke to the Tate recently about where to see this painting, since the recent Spencer exhibition in LIverpool ended. It is currently in storage in Lambeth, and there are no plans for it to be hung again soon. But, you can make a request to the Tate to see it, and they will bring it out of storage and let you see it. Now that I must do.
The Language Instinct ... Steven Pinker
The Science of Words ... George A. Miller (George Armitage)
The Ape that Spoke : Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind... John McCrone
Tower of Babel : the Evidence Against the NewCreationism... Robert T. Pennock
Alphabet to email : How Written English Evolved and Where it's Heading ... Naomi S. Baron
Governing the tongue : the politics of speech in early New England ... Jane Kamensky
The secret life of words : how English became English ... Henry Hitchings
A Cultural History of the English Language ... Gerald Knowles
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue : the untold history of English... John H. McWhorter
Ad Infinitum : a biography of Latin ... Nicholas Ostler
The Adventure of English: the life story of a remarkable language ... {DVD}
Dreaming in Hindi : coming awake in another language ... Katherine Russell Rich
The joy of lex : how to have fun with 860,341,500 words ... Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
100 words every word lover should know : the 100 words ... American Heritage Publishing Company
The Word Museum : the most remarkable English ever forgotten ... Jeffrey Kacirk
Damp Squid ... Jeremy Butterfield
Right, Wrong, and Risky : a dictionary of today's American English usage ... Mark Davidson
The language war ... Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Misreading masculinity : boys, literacy, and popular culture ... Thomas Newkirk
Talking from 9 to 5 ... Deborah Tannen
Scripture reference: 2 Corinthians 5:17. Drawing by LiLi, a young woman from our church.
Here’s a poem she wrote that goes with her artwork:
“I AM A NEW CREATURE”
In my darkness
You gave me light.
In my hopelessness
You restored my sight.
You pulled and tugged at my heart;
Telling me there was so much more than this.
In that moment I felt like my mind was falling apart.
You told me to grab onto Your hand and so I took the risk.
I denied myself
And I took up my own cross.
I dusted off the Bible that was on the shelf
And I followed You no matter what the cost.
I started to set my mind on things above
And everything came into perspective.
The earthly things I pushed away and I no longer loved
Because I found Your gift to be much more attractive.
In You, I am a new creature.
The old is gone and the new has come.
Now I can see the bigger picture.
My praise to You will no longer go unsung.
You taught me how to forgive again;
Not just seven times,
But seventy times seven;
Because You have forgiven me for my fines.
You taught me how to see again.
Everything around me is so much more vibrant and colorful.
I no longer see life as a dull and gray blend.
The little trust I had in You before, I realize now that I was such a fool.
You taught me how to love again.
You gave me an unending and eternal grant
By giving me a new heart that would make love transcend.
As a surgeon, You operated a life-changing and unforgettable heart transplant.
You taught me how to breathe again.
Your sacrifice is something I will never negate.
I will be always be Your warrior; I will always defend
Because the love You have shown me is so great
That I am still taking the time to comprehend.
Your strength is made perfect in my weakness.
Through You, all things are possible and limitless.
ACTS TODAY
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Sam Hailes spent a day at London Jesus Centre.
He describes what he found there as “like the early Christians”.
“Some things never change." Although such a phrase often has negative connotations, it can be good to have some stability in an otherwise changing world.
Whether it's the taste of Coca-Cola or the cycle of the four seasons, we can all think of things that we enjoy just the way they are.
Most importantly, we know that God and His truth never change. But 2,000 years after Jesus began his worldwide movement, the Church, the world is a completely different place. Is it still possible to live like those early Christians did?
Tucked away behind Oxford Street, lives a community of Christians who are proving the answer to that question is a resounding "yes!"
As I arrived at the Jesus Centre one cold winter morning, I was greeted by Centre Manager, Rob Bentley, and shown around. The first thing that strikes you is the sheer size of the property.
The grade-two, listed building used to be a convent - and still contains a magnificent chapel where 120 people gather every Sunday to worship.
To my surprise, I discover 30 people live in the building and share everything from meals to chores. I ask Rob what it is like to live in such a unique community.
"The dynamic of people pooling their resources and living together is amazing," he says. "Like a lot of people when they come across the church, there's a sense of 'I've come home'.
Yet there's no way such a mixed group of people could hang together except through God."
But living together is only a small part of what happens at the Jesus Centre. Every weekday the Centre is open to the homeless.
Around 50 people visit the Centre each day and are provided with showers, cheap clothing and free food and drink.
Rob tells me, "There are more rough sleepers in central London than the rest of the country put together."
Statistics show that after six months on the street many homeless people begin to suffer from mental illness.
"We help a lot of people who wouldn't get any help except for the voluntary sector."
Although the staff and volunteers are all clear on the Christians motivation for their work, the gospel is never forced on people.
Over the last two and a half years, Rob and his team have built a friendly atmosphere where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcomed and provided for.
"It's our desire that as many people as possible come to know Jesus, but while people are perfectly clear where we are coming from, we are happy to help anybody."
Rob says. "If people raise religious issues we are happy to talk about it, but only if they give permission - it's not a condition of them getting help."
The Centre is equipped with a number of classrooms where people can partake in courses ranging from basic IT skills to learning English as a foreign language.
Rob and his team also offer help with breaking bad habits and addictions.
Not only that, but the Centre contains a tearoom, a quiet room, a lounge and even an arts and craft room.
Many of these rooms are hired out in the evenings to local community groups with the profit invested back into their ministry to the poor.
Since the Centre opened three years ago, it has enjoyed donations of clothes for the homeless from United Colours of Benetton and John Lewis , shower gel and shampoo from The Body Shop and Lush and even cafe furniture from a local Costa.
In fact, every computer in the building has been donated!
Rob says the main aim of London's Jesus Centre is to extend the availability of church throughout the week.
"Our aim is to reach a wider range of people and to make an increasing impact in the local area."
As somebody previously unfamiliar with the work of the Jesus Army and their Centres, I left London Jesus Centre inspired and with Luke's words in Acts chapter two ringing in my head.
Surely, they sum up the Jesus Centre's work perfectly:
"All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need."
Sam Hailes is a third-year Journalism student from Eastbourne, currently studying in Southampton. He is co-president of the Christian Union and loves Starbucks coffee.
Read his blog here: holymansam.wordpress.com/
If Anyone Is in Christ
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
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The Language Instinct ... Steven Pinker
The Science of Words ... George A. Miller (George Armitage)
The Ape that Spoke : Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind... John McCrone
Tower of Babel : the Evidence Against the NewCreationism... Robert T. Pennock
Alphabet to email : How Written English Evolved and Where it's Heading ... Naomi S. Baron
Governing the tongue : the politics of speech in early New England ... Jane Kamensky
The secret life of words : how English became English ... Henry Hitchings
A Cultural History of the English Language ... Gerald Knowles
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue : the untold history of English... John H. McWhorter
Ad Infinitum : a biography of Latin ... Nicholas Ostler
The Adventure of English: the life story of a remarkable language ... {DVD}
Dreaming in Hindi : coming awake in another language ... Katherine Russell Rich
The joy of lex : how to have fun with 860,341,500 words ... Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
100 words every word lover should know : the 100 words ... American Heritage Publishing Company
The Word Museum : the most remarkable English ever forgotten ... Jeffrey Kacirk
Damp Squid ... Jeremy Butterfield
Right, Wrong, and Risky : a dictionary of today's American English usage ... Mark Davidson
The language war ... Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Misreading masculinity : boys, literacy, and popular culture ... Thomas Newkirk
Talking from 9 to 5 ... Deborah Tannen
To work with mosaic is special, because I can "paint" with peeces of stone instead of usual paint. It gives other results, it is very exiting to work with.
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Colin Witkowski and Lorraine Cheape had been together for four years when a friend had suggested they try heroin 'for the buzz.'
"I thought 'I'm not going to get addicted'" explains Lorraine.
"But we didn't realise what it was like.
The buzz soon stopped and we woke up ill, because we needed another hit. Then we realised it had got us.
After that, we couldn't start the day without a hit and went from smoking to injecting and shop-lifting to get the money.
We both got caught and sent to prison."
Things went from bad to worse.
One day in 2000, they came home to find they'd been evicted.
Their belongings were out in the street and the locks had been changed.
"We sat on the step, needing drugs and wondering what to do," says Colin.
"That's when I said 'we need two miracles!'"
Unknown to them, God was already preparing their miracles - through the Northampton Jesus Centre.
Because their faces were well-known to police and shopkeepers in Corby, Colin and Lorraine decided to move.
In 2002, they landed up in Northampton - homeless, addicted and with no friends.
Within a few days, on her 31st birthday - 28 June 2002 - Lorraine was arrested for jumping bail.
A week later, Colin was sent to a different prison.
"We'd already met Jesus Army people in Kettering, cooking hot-dogs for the homeless," says Colin. "
A guy called Shaun told us he'd once been a druggie but got free when he became a Christian.
That gave us hope. But we moved on before we could accept his invitation to a meal.
"Just before we were arrested in Northampton, we met Steve, from one of the Northampton Jesus Army houses.
At first, Steve didn't think I was serious when I said, 'We want to change.'
Steve knew about addiction. He'd been an addict, himself.
But when Steve read my letter from prison, he realised God was at work.
"When we left prison, Steve was there for us and so was the Jesus Centre. We spent most of every day there.
We found friends who cared about us, prayed for us and helped us through detox.
Best of all, we found God!"
On Saturday 28 June 2003 - Lorraine's 32nd birthday - Colin and Lorraine played an important part in the Jesus Army's "Jesus Festival" in London.
Lorraine turned to Colin and said "Do you realise: this day, last year, we were homeless on heroin.
This year we're, standing on stage, clean, in Trafalgar Square, telling our story to thousands!"
A few days later, Northampton Council gave them the keys to their own flat.
"When we moved in," says Colin, " we had nothing - just two mattresses from our squat. People from all over the church sent us stuff.
The amazing thing was, we didn't tell anyone our flat was green - but everything matched!
"God's done so much for us and we can't speak too highly of the Jesus Centre.
From the day of our baptism, our whole lives have changed. Honestly, I could go on about it forever!"
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