Camping
July 29th, 2006 by Mark Tiddy Posted in Just For Fun
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July 25th, 2006 by Mark Tiddy Posted in Uncategorized
How to get a job for an insurance company?
July 20th, 2006 by Mark Tiddy Posted in Just For Fun
It turns out that insurance companies no longer look for skilled individuals, people with people skills, confidence, phone skills, computer skills or good CV’s, oh no
The end is near!…
July 19th, 2006 by Mark Tiddy Posted in Youth Work
Well, it’s now under a week until I go home for the summer, in fact only 5 days and I’m having mixed feelings, I’m gonna be so glad of the break cos I’m pretty knackered as of late, and I’m really looking forward to seeing people etc, but I know it’s gonna go so quick and before I know it I’ll be starting uni, now there’s a scary thought, yes I’ll have familiar surroundings for it but me and uni? how scary! I filled in a form today and worked out that I’ll finish uni in 2009, that sounds ages away! It barely seems yesterday that 2000 came upon us, time really seems to fly.
Anyway easy last few days for me? Yeah right! I have a sermon to do on sunday which, until I blogged I was in the middle of researching and brain storming, I’m gonna be talking on humility and other than ‘We should be humble’ I’m not too sure what I’m gonna say, I think I’ll pray in a minute and crack on, I’ll be so glad when it’s written because it’s the last big thing I have to do before I finish for the summer.
This has been a funny old week so far, quite a lot has been happening and it’s all lasts! I had my last CAMEO today, it’s funny, when I read that I’d be going to old people’s lunches this year I thought ‘Fun [/sarcasm]‘ but I’ve actually really enjoyed it and in a funny way I’m going to miss it, but I guess as a youth worker moving on from things is something I need to get used to, I feel so much older now than I did in September and although I’m used to saying ‘youth workers just get more immature’ I think I know that it’s not true, this year I can see how much I’ve changed, people have told me that too, I can see how confidence has grown not just from being in Peterborough but from various other things and relationships throughout the year, I posted about the future a week or so ago and it being scary, I don’t think it is scary, it’s fairly unknown but I don’t think that bothers me, I think I quite like the mystery and the not knowing now which is odd for me because I usually hate unknown things, this last week I’ve been surprising myself a lot, doing things I never thought I’d do and realising how much I’ve actually changed, and I like it… I like it a lot.
ok, well I was thinking it was time for another blog and I was thinking on what to blog on, and attractive as the thought of blogging on Matt was I thought I’d leave it for a bit because this blog my friends, readers and goons who happen to click here is much more exciting, this blog is about
Music!!!
Music has always been one of the most important things in my life and I’ve got through a fair amount of it, I went through the whole ‘young child lack of taste’ stage where you listen to talentless bands such as S Club, Atomic Kitten, Steps and the like, of course then you enter those teenage years and what you listen to determines how ‘Cool’ you are I guess, however I didn’t really go for that, it was two events that got me into the music which now I don’t think I could live without (ok, exaggeration I could but I’d rather have it!) Punk rock. The first of these events was a trip in Andy’s car with Sum 41 for company, possibly the only good music I’ve ever heard in andy’s car and that hooked me, then the following Sunday I was watching the CBBC chart show in my grandma’s kitchen and on came New Found Glory! That hooked me!
Of course since then I have discovered loads of awesome punk bands, all varying in style and the best of them being Blink 182 and Relient K methinks. However recently my musical taste has become varied. I think the whole teenage thing let’s you become very ‘closed-minded’ on music and you don’t like songs because ‘they’re not punk’ rather than because they’re a bad song, so in the last year among varies punk albums bands like ‘The Corrs’, ‘Catatonia’, ‘The Beatles’, ‘Madness’ and the latest in my weird collection ‘ Vanessa Carlton’ have arrived among Blink 182 and the like. It’s kinda odd, however kinda cool, the variety of music I have is massive and it’s great, something for every mood, every situation and it’s really inspiring for writing varied music not just of one particular genre.
So my friends, that’s my musical blog! Byebye readers
Miserable!
July 9th, 2006 by Mark Tiddy Posted in Articles, Just For Fun
So the other day I paid a visit to hell…
Nope…not that one, this one…
okay, so perhaps it’s not hell, however whilst I trundalled around our local Tesco shopping for the youth camp with a trolly which refused to do what I wanted, I made an observation.
Everyone who I saw with their trollies or baskets looked miserable, not a single happy face, ok I admit that shopping at Tesco isn’t my favourite past-time however why can’t people be happy?
If I can walk around Tesco not getting annoyed that my trolly isnt goin anywhere and that I’m running out of space and that the pizzas are about to fall off then surely some of these people with half empty baskets could at least smile! I can think about other things whilst there to make the experience happier, I could even plug into some music, I don’t really think there is a huge excuse for being miserable there, but maybe that’s just me!
Anyway my strange ramble on people being miserable in tesco is over and I am very tired but certain folk on msn are worth being tired to talk to!
Healing…my perception
July 6th, 2006 by Mark Tiddy Posted in Articles, Christianity
okay so every Thursday night at Church recently and tonight was the good old ‘Does God heal today’ evening, the one thing which I think is great about the Alpha course is that it doesn’t do it in a particually ‘one denominational way’ so it doesn’t do the C of E ‘God lets the doctors heal and that’s it’ and it doesn’t do the charasmatic ‘You will be healed and if not I’m gonna tell you you are healed anyway way’. Okay so I’m being a bit stereotypical there but I think it’s the general gist with the odd difference here and there, which leads onto the title of this blog…
Healing… my perception
I think today a lot of people are sketical and almost scared of the idea of God healing, our society has amazing medical knowledge and many a illness, disease etc can be healed through that, and yes I do believe that God has given the doctors knowledge and skill to do their jobs and discover things and also that he helps us through times in hospitals, however one thing which I absolutely do not believe is that this is the only way God heals, that is utter nonsense and I shall now proceed to share why i think this.
From my experience and from what the bible tells me I believe and to an extent know that God can heal today, I have heard loads of stories of people being healed…okay you say ‘they’re third party stories and therefore not as sound’, yes I’ll give you that, amazing as stories of people being brought back from the dead are I am still skeptical of amazing healings though (to contradict myself) I absolutely believe that God has the power to and will in some occasions.
The way I see it churches take 2 opinions (as meantioned before), the latter of these the whole ‘God will heal you if not I’m gonna say you’re healed anyway’ is ridiculous! God doesn’t heal everyone otherwise no-one would be dead! God, I believe that God does heal some people if it is his will (once again I hear you cry out, this time it’s ‘why would God want anyone to suffer’ I shall return to this later), Jesus says that we should pray for sick and pray for healing, infact it’s part of the great commissioning found at the end of Matthew & Mark so I believe that we should pray for healing for people and sometimes God will choose to heal them, I have prayed for things like headaches for people and they’ve been healed instantly so to my belief God does heal both small and large things.
Now to return to my ‘hear you cry!’ question, Why would God want anyone to suffer?
A while ago in the cinema I watched a film called ‘The Exorcism Of Emily Rose’, now in this film a young Christian girl became possessed by a demon which wouldn’t go even when prayed for, this girl was going through hell, now in a dream she met God and he said to her ‘You have 2 choices, I can take you now and you can come to heaven with me or you can stay here for a few more days and your story will change peoples lives’ in this case she chose to stay.
So how does this answer my question?
Well the bible tells me that ‘God works through all things for the good of those who love him’ so for 1 dying and going to heaven for Christians is the ultimate goal, the final healing if you like and the second thing that this quote spoke to me about was that sometimes suffering does good, for example I have heard of so many Christians who despite suffering/ not being healed have used their last time to do a great ministry which wouldn’t have been possible were they well.
So there we go, a tarkmiddy perspective on healing, make of it what you will however to conclude I shall say that regardless of success or not we should continue to pray for healing for people because if we don’t then it certainly wont happen!
