Audience of One

The twelfth miscellany

UCCF have just put a video they showed at New Word Alive up on Youtube, so for those who weren’t there or aren’t students, here it is!

I’ve read a few of them and it seems an excellent selection. Delighting in the Trinity and Let the nations be glad! are on my to-read list.

Sam Allberry posted a list entitled “You know you’re an Ebbe’s student when…” back in 2006, which I’ve just discovered. Favourites of mine (which are more widely true, I’d say!) include:

• You can’t remember the last time you asked a Christian “How are you?”. “Are you well?” is the only appropriate enquiry.
• You can distinguish between a Iwernite, a Lymington-Rushmorer or a CYFA camper on the basis of fashion sense alone.
• Whenever a chorus in a Christian song is repeated more than once you have an involuntary eyebrow-raising reflex.
• If someone asks you out for coffee, you lie awake at night beforehand examining your conscience and preparing for the worst.
• During a break in lectures you have an unaccountable urge to turn round and get to know the person sitting next to you.
• You secretly wish you could carry off addressing people as “brother” or “sister”.
• You know you can’t, but you start doing it anyway.

And in a long-running tradition of amusing search terms that bring up this website, this year’s are positively tame:

• saying what you’re subconsciously thinking
• what type of government did the lion king have
• ways to lose your job

Now Google has search analysis tools as well, and so I can inform the world that in Googlebot’s humble opinion, the four most important words on this website are:

• God
• Matthew
• Christian
• Joy

Grace clocks in at #17 – should probably work on that.

Matthew @ 17:00, May 2, 2008 to Miscellaneous | Comments (3)