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Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton was born on the 24th of August, 1758 to Thomas and Cecil Picton (Nee Powel) of Poyston, Pembrokeshire. He was later baptised at Rudbaxton on the 29th of August.
His mother Cecil Picton (Nee Powel) was the daughter a heiress of Rev. Edward Powel of Llandow.
At the age of 15/16 he joined the 12th Regiment of Foot at Gibraltar as an ensign. His military career let him to fight under the Duke of Wellington at the Iberian Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo. During the Battle of Waterloo Thomas was fatally wounded on the 18th of June, 1815 and became one of the most senior officers to die at the battle.
One of his relations includes Richard Turbervill of Ewenny Priory. This connection links the family to the The Twelve Knights of Glamorgan and the de Tuberville families of Coity and Sker.
Below is the story of "The Birth of General Picton" - as told by Alun Morgan.
General Sir Thomas Picton, one of the Duke of Wellington's divisional commanders, who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo, had several connections with Porthcawl. One of the town's streets has been named after him, and a public house; one of his relatives, Mary Caroline, married James Brogden who built the docks and the early town. Porthcawlians would therefore be interested in the story of his birth, a true account but know almost legendary. This is how he entered the world.
Miss Cecil Powel, heiress of Llandow, was a beautiful and talented girl. As a result she had many admirers and suitors, both young and old; but, being also highly spirited, she steadfastly refused to get herself entangled at an early age. She wanted to enjoy herself first before succumbing to the fetters of marriage.
Many tried to be her one and only escort but by various ploys she always succeeded in thwarting serious designs on her. One suitor, however, was so persistent that she devised a scheme that was to be both hilarious and effective. She consented to marriage but only on one condition; that the ceremony should take place at St. Tresilian's cave, St. Donat's. This cave was situated in a lonely spot on the coast and had already been the scene of a romantic marriage many years previously; it was also the place. People said, where the body of a notorious Bristol Channel pirate had been buried.
She arranged for a bogus ceremony to be performed, bribing a local man to act as clergyman. All the guests were to be masked, including the 'parson'. When it was all over she would announce that the 'marriage' must be annulled for it had been a sham from the start to finish. The earnest 'groom' would then find himself defeated and everyone would dissolve in laughter.
Everything was arranged and the wilful girl appeared at the cave in a beautiful wedding dress accompanied by bridesmaids who could hardly conceal their enjoyment of the anticipated denouncement. The ceremony was dutifully performed and then, when it was over the clergyman removed his mask to reveal himself as Rev. Edward Powel, Rector of Llandow and father of the bride. He and the suitor had heard of the plot, paid off the hired man and conspired together to make the real thing of it. The bride found herself properly and irretrievably married.
Recovering from her shock Cecil Powel relented and saw the humorous side of things. She and her husband remained happily married all their lives, giving birth to a so who was christened Thomas Picton, later to serve his country well and fall at Quatre Bras.
The Legends of Porthcawl and the Glamorgan Coast
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Taking over the official wallet means there is an opportunity to help members with support issues and direct those to the correct issues on Gihub where necessary. This will encourage a circle of improvement, with minimal effort.
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Posted on : 27-08-2012 | By : Bozho | In : Opinions
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Going for the Gore
My darling 8 year old twin boys have turned the corner this Halloween. The days of dressing up like super heroes, adorable pumpkins, or puppy dogs are no longer here. Now they have moved on to wanting the scary, gory costumes for Halloween and the creepier the better. Rather than fight this ghoulish interest, I've decided to embrace it--but with a few restrictions. Yes, they can dress in semi-grisly and spooky costumes but where I draw the line is that they can not have costumes with weapons, blood or wear one where they look bludgeoned (they actually wanted a mask with an axe coming out of the guys head--NO WAY!). So this Halloween, I'll bid farewell to the adorable costumes of yesteryear and (gulp) say "hello" to the Grim Reaper and that guy from Scream.
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Tragedy struck yesterday at No. 13, Buraimoh Street, Bariga, in the Lagos metropolis, when a midnight fire claimed the lives of a man, his pregnant wife, and their two children aged five and seven years.
The man and his wife were said to be operators of a local pharmaceutical shop in the affected building.
The fire was said to have started about 2:00a.m. on Wednesday.
The exact cause of the fire tragedy remained controversial as some neighbours told our correspondent that the fire was caused by an upsurge in electricity supply to the area, while others alleged that the victims placed a candle on a wooden surface and slept off.
Our correspondent was told that the couple and their children were sleeping when the candle burnt completely and began to consume a table on which it was placed. It later spread to the clothes beside the table.
Fire fighters from the Lagos State Fire Service, officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and policemen from the Bariga police division responded to distress calls from residents in the area, but the victims had died before help could come their way.
A resident, Kayode Ibrahim, said the fire had spread to other parts of the room before a neighbour became aware and raised the alarm. According to him, the fire later spread to two other neighbouring shops.
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The Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Razaq Fadipe, said that the victims were found dead inside one of the three shops that were badly burnt by the inferno. Fadipe confirmed that the family was living in one of the shops and also running a pharmaceutical business therein.
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What a cute ladyboy maid, just sitting pretty for the photo. I love her long dark hark and those luscious legs are just to die for. Every girl should have a pair of those large black fishnet stockings to add a bit of sexiness to any outfit.
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IUI#2 and I'm Going to Disney World Again!
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Good luck and have a fab time at Disney!ReplyDelete
Glad you guys are going back. Maybe a little relaxation during the 2WW will bring you some good luck!!!ReplyDelete
Wow, looking at your about me section it seems that we have had very similar experiences. I have been married for 3 and a half years, and TTC for 2 years and almost 8 months. :(ReplyDelete
I don't know about you, but in my opinion, Clomid is EVIL! It did nothing but make me extremely, extremely depressed. To the point of not wanting to go on. It was bad.
So I've had better luck emotionally with Femara. Let's just hope it works for a big fat follie tomorrow. It would be awesome if we both got BFP's for Christmas!!!!
MAN I'm Jealous!!!ReplyDelete
I've never been to Disneyworld, but I fricken love Disneyland, so I'm sure it must be great.
Dude BFP's right before Christmas would be awesome. Here's to hoping we both see that long awaited second line.
Wishing luck! Hope you had fun this weekend- I've never been to Disney World, so as I'm sitting here in 19 degree weather, I'm living vicariously through you.ReplyDelete


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The Maze
Written on my bus commute about a busy grandmother getting to know her grandson, this won the 2017 Gloucestershire Writers Network Prize. I joined other commended and winning authors and poets to read our work at Cheltenham Literature Festival. All stories and poems available in pamphlet form through the GWN.
The Apocalypse Alphabet
A short tale of a mum, a boy, and the end of the world, described by the judges as "clever, thoughtful, poignant, and impeccably drafted." I read this aloud for the Stroud Short Stories event in November 2016, which borrowed the title from my story. Watch the video of my reading, and check out the other fantastic writers from the night, too!
Cats and Elephants
Published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology: Volume 4, it tells the story of an unlikely romance struggling on against the odds. The anthology is available from the Bristol Short Story Prize shop, on Amazon, and from other good booksellers.
Reviewer Rob, of RobAroundBooks, reviewed Cats and Elephants and called it "intimate and much more potent than its short length should allow it to be." Read his full review and check out his blog here.
The Meek Inherit
About a brave Haitian girl's experience during the earthquake of 2010, this story appeared in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, Volume 3. It, too, is available from the Bristol Short Story Prize shop, on Amazon , and from other good booksellers.
Henbury School's Gifted and Talented artists selected The Meek Inherit as a source for their art exhibit at the Arnolfini Gallery during Bristol's ShortStoryville festival in 2011. Their incredible work is preserved online on their Flickr page.
A Night at the Armoured Cars Subdivision
My first one-act play, A Night at the Armoured Cars Sub-Division, was selected to be part of the 3 Counties Am Dram TV 2016 mini-fest in Ledbury and in Abergavenny. In this short blend of political thriller and science fiction, some scientists tap into people's subconscious, and solve crime by spying on dreams–but at what cost? You can view a clip from the beginning of the play on YouTube, filmed during opening night.
My first novel was longlisted for Mslexia's novel competition. Artefacts explores the far-reaching effects of our insecurities. A teaching assistant and an English teacher confront their own hopes, regrets, and religious differences while trying to help an antisocial seventh grader.
The Wrong Ten Seconds
Currently under consideration with agents and competitions, The Wrong Ten Seconds follows Charlie, a hard-working older man who commits a single, frustrated act. Lonely teen artist Phoebe records this on her mobile phone, and her video goes viral, forcing Charlie to pay heavily for his misdeed, as Phoebe struggles with her own role in his undoing.
Society of the Spurned
This was my project during last year's NaNoWriMo. Marcie's pastor husband has just committed suicide after being implicated in the Ashley Madison scandal. Fed up with modern life in her small, conservative town, Marcie does her best to take her five children off-grid and, with the help of her twin brother, survive without the outside world.


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LOL, that is funny.On our walk today, Chloe and I were on the edge of the open space up the hill, I was looking at the new home construction going on, and all of a sudden she jerked me to the right and when I looked, she had a prairie dog in her mouth. I yelled at her to "drop it", which she usually does, this time, she did not, the little rodent was screaming and screaming. I grabbed chloe by the nose and tried to pull her mouth apart to get the prairie dog out, and it finally dropped and ran away, REALLY fast. While doing that, Chloe nipped my right hand and got one of my fingers really good, caught between her teeth. Thought I was gonna need stitches, but when I got home and cleaned it all up, turns out to be just a really big scratch, but it hurts like the dickens.


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Daily Watch – Electricity reversal to widen ₦300bn gap, CBN funds $697m in forwards
- The CBN will today fund one-month forward contracts of $697 million on the interbank market, effectively improving dollar liquidity in the market, as the accounts of customers that hedged against the American dollar through their banks, last month will be credited. On the first day of trading under the revised rules for the interbank market on June 20, the CBN had cleared a $4.02 billion backlog by selling $532 million on the spot market and $3.487 billion in the forwards market. This measure is seen as the latest attempt to ease pressure on the naira which fell to its lowest level Thursday since the guidelines were revised last month for trading on the interbank market. The naira closed at ₦310.43 to a dollar, compared to ₦294.24 on Wednesday. While the appreciation in the official rate was significant, the naira did not budge at the parallel market, remaining unchanged at ₦375.
- Finance minister, Kemi Adeosun says the FG saves ₦6 billion monthly through wide-ranging cuts in the recurrent expenditure. While briefing senators on the state of the Nigerian economy, the minister said the Buhari government inherited salaries and wages of ₦169 billion, which it has reduced to ₦159 billion, and added that the government will direct and model economic policies away from oil and towards non-oil revenue flows as global demand for oil decreases and supply increases.
- A reversal in an electricity tariff hike will increase a ₦300 billion funding gap currently hammering Nigeria's power sector, industry operators say. According to the Executive Director of the Association of National Electricity Distributors, Sunday Oduntan, if a court ruling on the reversal of tariff is implemented, the outcome on the sector and the overall economy would be more severe than people imagined. A Lagos Federal High Court recently reversed a 45 percent increase in electricity tariff by NERC in a landmark judgement, declaring it illegal. The Discos and NERC have filed separate appeals against the ruling.
- The CBN has provided a loan to Skye Bank to boost its liquidity after the lender breached requirements on capital and lending. The short-term lending facility will allow new management to "ensure that some withdrawals it suffered in the wake of the undue panic of last week do not adversely affect its operations," said CBN spokesman, Isaac Okorafor. The regulator has also issued guarantees to the bank's depositors and creditors as a demonstration of its health. CBN replaced Skye's executive team earlier this month after it breached required thresholds for liquidity and non-performing loans, plunging its share price to record lows and leading declines among other Nigerian lenders despite assurances that the banks were healthy.


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Day 1
Our spelling words for the week are French, bench, eggnog, quick, join, together, bent, eighteen, jolly, quicksand, toothpaste, heart, mountain, pushes and tipped.
Today we did a series on comprehension to cement in Little Miss 8's knowledge of charts and graphs.
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Today was a big day as we worked on fractions - we looked at equivalent fractions and ordering fractions. We also looked at the size and the location of the Rocky Mountains and delved into the world of Norse mythology.
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We covered food for energy today and talked about healthy versus non-healthy food. We even experimented in the kitchen and Little Miss 8 made a salad for us to eat. We talked a bit about natural resources and did some reading on cause and effect for our Language Arts subject.
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On 5th October, Friday, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it was capping the length of a home loan at 35 years.
MAS is taking this step now to require more prudent lending and to continue to watch the property market carefully.
And Singapore has signalled clearly that it will not lag behind the regulatory curve.
With effect from 6th October, 2012:
Reasons for Fresh Round of Property Cooling Measures:
Impact on Property Market:
MAS is taking this step now to require more prudent lending and to continue to watch the property market carefully. And Singapore has signalled clearly that it will not lag behind the regulatory curve. Hong Kong for example, moved to introduced mortgage curbs immediately after QE3 was announced. In its 5th round of property cooling measures, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced it would limit the maximum term of all new mortgages to 30 years. In addition, mortgage payments for investment properties cannot be more than 40% of buyer's monthly incomes, compared with 50% previously.
There is a debate if this new round of cooling measures will be effective in bringing property prices down to a more sustainable level. As in all previous cooling measures, the market seems to only bite on for a while before continuing its upward climb. Official data showed that HDB resale prices rose 2% in Q3 form Q2, while private home prices gained 0.5% over the same period. Resale home prices of non-landed homes have risen 3.2% in Q3.
The Straits Times reported showflats continue to see good traffic on Saturday, the day the mortgage-tightening measures were implemented. Potential buyers were also sniffing out if developers will offer special perks or discounts to buyers to take the sting out of the new restrictions. None did so far unless demand drops to drastic levels over the next 6 months or so. Therefore, it will still be pre-mature for knee-jerked reaction in the property market.
Impact on Home-Buyers:
Except for much younger buyers who are able to take the full 35 year loan tenure, the older ones especially those in their forties and have been waiting for prices to fall to buy, will be disappointed. A 40-year old will now be only able to take up to 25-year loan tenure to enjoy the usual 20% down payment.
But if he were to take out the shorter 25-year loan of $800,000 for a $1 million property, this would now mean monthly payments of $3,051, at current interest rates of 1.1%. This is $400 more than if he were to take a 30-year loan.
Older home buyers will take the hardest blow while the younger buyers should just get away with just paying a shade more every month.
Impact on Investors:
For Investors like me, the new rules would mean "Total Game Over" for the residential property market.
For an investor who already have an existing mortgage on hand, finds a $1 million property that he wants, he would have to fork out a $600,000 as down payment in cash. (Down from 60% loan to value, on top of an existing 3% Buyer's Stamp Duty, plus a 4-year Seller Stamp Duty) Putting such a hefty sum locked in an illiquid asset with a minimum holding period of more than 4 years (to avoid seller's stamp duty) plus having to pay taxes just to own one, it sure does not justify any savvy investor's potential "Cost of Opportunity" in other more sensible assets to grow his net-worth by another zero.
For an investor who is already 50 years or older, even if he does not have any existing loan on hand, his monthly mortgage payments with only a 15 –year loan will be $4,823, likely more than his monthly rental yield.
Overall Assessment of the Residential Property Market:
Unless much younger home buyers (30 years or younger) with no existing home loan represent the majority of the market (which most likely never due to current affordability issues), we will be looking at the peak and saturation of the residential property market. Lesser buyers would mean lesser sellers, means either a price stabilisation or a fall in near future.
In any case, the steam from these latest mortgage restrictions will dissolve in no time like previous measures:
Unlike commercial property, the residential property market holds the key to wealth and credit of any society and country. When people feel rich through their home prices rising, everyone from consumer to business owners borrow. Credit is created and the 'wealth effect' leaks through the fabrics of any economy, generating economic growth and investment for all countries.
Governments do not want a bubble busting in their own back yards. They only want ignorant consumers to borrow and spend. That's the reason why all property cooling measures are targeted at the residential sector, and not the commercial.
When will the bubble burst or prices fall? Only when that credit which fuel borrowing and spending comes to a complete halt because of fear and mass 'exodus', we will then see "blood" on the streets.
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Cecelia from homeloanexperts.co.za Dec 7 2012 - 5:11 pm
Although you'll have a higher monthly payment, it is always better to take the shortest term possible when it comes to home loans. I'm all for this capping restriction. It will certainly save you thousands of dollars in interest.
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What mission organization or church are you with?
We are sent by, and responsible to, our home churches in the United States but are working in Thailand through OMF International, an inter-denominational missionary organization that includes missionaries from a variety of countries and Protestant churches. Sun's home church is Calvary Church of Santa Ana and Karl is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).
How to Listen to a Bad Sermon
You're at church. Maybe it's your own church, or maybe you're just visiting. But as the preacher gets going, it becomes obvious that his sermon is going nowhere. Maybe it is just dull. Or maybe he is spouting off his own opinion with the Scriptures as a springboard. Or maybe it is moralistic or allegorical. Or maybe the preacher is simply getting the Bible wrong, twisting the meaning of the passage at hand. There are a thousand variations of the bad sermon. But when you are locked in to listening to a bad sermon, how should you respond?The typical way that I respond to a bad sermon is to sit quietly and stew about how bad it is. Then when we get home from church, I complain to my wife about how bad it was, and list all the reasons it was bad. This elicits empathy from my wife, who also had to sit through the bad sermon (though she is sometimes less affected by it when our kids are squirmy). While I admit that getting upset about how bad it was is my gut level reaction, it is not all that helpful. I go to church to encounter God, to worship Him, to listen to His Word, and to be built up. Meditating on all the reasons why the sermon is bad doesn't really accomplish any of those goals. There is, of course, a place for critiquing bad sermons (I wrote a whole blog series about this), but there is also something to be said for redeeming bad sermons, and avoiding bitterness. The reason that I can sometimes get bitter about bad sermons is that I am hoping to hear something good from God's Word and then have my hopes dashed. But it is no fun to live in the gall of bitterness. And it certainly does not honor God.
Book Review "The Creedal Imperative" by Carl Trueman
reviewed by Karl DahlfredThe Creedal Imperative, by Carl Trueman. (Crossway, 2012, 208pp.)Within the world of evangelical Protestantism, creeds have fallen on hard times. They are old, irrelevant, and go into way too much detail about non-essential doctrinal points that just cause conflict. "Doctrine divides, mission unites," as they say. Therefore, it is a massively difficult task that Carl Trueman has taken on in "The Creedal Imperative", making the case that not only are creeds helpful, but also essential to the life of the church. For many people, the whole idea of creeds conjures up words like "dry," "dusty," and "academic" but Trueman does a brilliant job of making his case for creeds readable and understandable for those who are not familiar with them, and are not sure whether they should be.From the very first page, Trueman addresses himself to the popular objections to creeds. His leading example is a pastor who claimed that his church had no creed but the Bible, yet at the same time taught the five points of Calvinism, dispensationalism, and form of church government drawn from the Plymouth Brethren. Trueman points out that while this pastor's church claimed "its only creed was the Bible, it actually connected in terms of the details of its life and teaching to almost no other congregation in the history of the church. Clearly, the church did have a creed, a summary view of what the Bible taught on grace, eschatology, and ecclesiology; it was just that nobody ever wrote it down and set it out in public." (Kindle Locations 119-122)
Book Review "What is the Mission of the Church?" by Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert
Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert, What is the Mission of the Church? Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2011).
Reviewed by James Steer
What is the mission of the Church? That's the question DeYoung and Gilbert seek to answer in this book. Their motivation for writing is to clarify some of the current confusion within evangelicalism, particularly with regard to what individual Christians and what the Church should be doing. They also seek to elucidate what is God's work, and what is our work. In the opening chapter they ask "what do we even mean by mission?" before asking several other pertinent questions: "is the mission of the church discipleship or good deeds or both? ... Is the mission of the church distinct from the responsibilities of other Christians? ... What should be the church's role in pursuing social justice?" (p. 16, italics original).
Book Review "When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself" by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself, New Edition ed. (Chicago, IL.: Moody Publishers, 2009)- reviewed by Karl DahlfredCan you help the poor by just giving more money? Lots of people and churches have tried that route and been burned in the process. In "When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself" authors Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert have provided a helpful guide for churches and individual Christians to think about the best ways to love the poor in ways that help both parties.
Book Review: "Worship and Mission After Christendom" by Alan and Eleanor Kreider
Alan and Eleanor Kreider, Worship and Mission After Christendom. Scottsdale, Ariz.: Herald Press, 2011, 322 pp.
reviewed by Karl DahlfredAre worship and mission doomed to be in never-ending competition for the time and resources of the church? Must we choose between looking inward and looking outward? In "Worship and Mission After Christendom", Alan and Eleanor Kreider give a resounding "NO", pointing readers to a third way of looking at the relationship between worship and mission in light of the demise of Christendom in the West.
Raised on the mission field in Asia, Alan and Eleanor Kreider served as Mennonite missionary teachers in England for thirty years before returning to the United States, where they continue their work teaching, speaking and writing about issues of worship, church history, and peace making. In "Worship and Mission After Christendom", the Kreiders bring together the results of their studies in these areas, together with personal experience to present an alternative vision of the relationship between worship and mission.
When the Power of Positive Thinking Crashes and Burns
In the press today is the story of Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder Robert Schuller being ousted from his own board of directors. And this news comes on the heels of the financial bankruptcy of the Crystal Cathedral itself.Why has it spiraled downward to this point? Because the Crystal Cathedral has been built on a foundation other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Schuller championed a gospel of self-esteem that refuses to address sin as the Bible does. Schuller asserts that man's main problem is that he doesn't believe in himself enough. However, Jesus taught that man thinks too highly of himself and needs to repent (Luke 18:9-14).
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Unbiblical Preaching - Part 7: Solutions
Some people may think that unbiblical preaching is the preacher's problem, not theirs. However, Biblical preaching is more likely to occur in a congregation where not only the pastor, but also the people want solid Biblical teaching. While a pastor has a big role in helping create such an atmosphere, he is only one piece in the puzzle. If a growing number of people in a church are dissatisfied with moralism, allegory, and gnosticism from the pulpit, then it can push the pastor to up the bar. And of course, the corollary is true as well. If the congregation is not interested in hearing from God, but just wants a pick-me-up to help them get through the week, then it will be tempting for the preacher to go light on the Word of God, giving the people what they think they need.So how do we work towards seeing more Biblical preaching in our churches? I've come up with a list of five solutions. The list is not exhaustive, and I am sure there are other solutions that could be added. However, if we are able to put into practice just these five, then it should go a long way in creating healthier Bible reading and preaching in our churches.
Church Discipline Doesn't Work?
Church discipline is not popular and is rarely practiced in Thai churches, and the same can be said for churches in the West. When it is practiced, it is often for those "big" sins like adultery or embezzlement of church funds. Other repeat offenses like slander, gossip and divisiveness are unrightly overlooked. The term conjures up images of judgmental, critical, self-righteous nitpicks who stick their nose in other people's business where it doesn't belong. Many Christians incorrectly see the goal of church discipline as punishment, despite the fact that the Bible says that the goal of church discipline is restoration and reconciliation.
The Forgotten Factor in Church Growth
In recent years there has been a lot of talk about church growth in the evangelical world. Everyone wants to know how to make their church grow and there is no shortage of suggestions for how to do it. What is the key to making your church grow? Is it using a cell church model? house church model? more user-friendly sermons? better music? more skits? candles? bigger parking lot? more exciting youth programs? powerpoint? more lay leadership? something else?Protestant missionaries have been in Thailand for over 180 years yet the number of Christians in the country is still less than 1%. So, the question has been asked, when so much time, money, and effort has been put into evangelization, how come the church has grown so slowly? Again, many suggestions have been put forth. Perhaps we haven't contextualized the Gospel well enough. Or our evangelism has been too Western. Or we have used a poor model of church. Or there is a lack of indigenous worship music. Or we haven't been letting the Spirit lead. Or church buildings don't look Thai enough. Or we haven't emphasized house churches. Or we haven't found the right redemptive analogy. Or whatever.
Nevius on Having a Full-Time Paid Pastor
In planting a new church, how should the missionary provide for the continuing care of the congregation after he is gone? Or, to put it another way, how do you know when you are "done" planting a church? In not a small number of cases, missionaries in Thailand have established churches with a modus operandi something like this: evangelize and disciple until there is a sufficient number of Christian believers such that there are people to lead various elements of Sunday worship service and there are more or less sufficient finances to rent a building and call a full-time Bible school educated Thai pastor to lead the church. If these elements are mostly in place, then the church is considered planted and the missionary feels free to move on to a new location. Often there are some kind of appointed or elected church leaders which may or may not resemble Biblical elders. In many cases, I have seen a church committee which makes decisions about finances and church activities substituted for the Biblical model of elders, namely mature Christian men who govern and shepherd the congregation, bearing spiritual responsibility for the souls of the people. If a missionary gets the number of believers up to level where the church won't dissolve, and then calls a native pastor (whom a small church often times can barely pay), is this really the best model for establishing healthy Biblical churches?
Nevius on Appointing Elders Prematurely
It is always good to know that someone is speaking from experience and not just theory. Therefore, following on from my previous post about Nevius' thoughts on finding local leaders, I wanted to share Nevius' account of how he and his missionary colleagues made the mistake of appointing elders too hastily:"Twenty years ago our mission in considering this subject reasoned on this wise: We are Presbyterians, and our churches should be organized from the first on Presbyterian principles. If we cannot get men for elders as well qualified as we should like, we must take the best men we can find, men who seem sincere and earnest Christians, and who may develop in character and ability to fulfill the duties of elders by having the duties and responsibilities of this office laid upon them. With these views and expectations several churches were formally and constitutionally organized. It was found, however, in not a small proportion of cases that the elders did not, or could not, perform their official duties, and were an obstruction to any one else attempting to do so. They were placed in a false position, injurious to themselves and the churches of which they had the nominal charge. Some were hardly able to sustain the character of an ordinary church member and others were in a course of few years excommunicated. We then took action as a Presbytery, determining that
Nevius on Finding Local Leaders
Every missionary wants to develop indigenous local leaders so that an indigenous church may be established. When there are not many local Christians to choose from, it can be difficult to find the right people, especially those that are Biblically qualified. With many years of experience under his belt as a missionary in China, John Nevius had that following to say on the subject:
"It is only natural that missionaries should at first seek and employ many native agents. They are anxious for immediate results, and home societies and the home churches are as impatient to hear of results as the missionaries are to report them. No communications from the field seem so indicative of progress, and are so calculated to call forth commendation and generous contributions as the announcement that native laborers have been obtained, and are preaching the gospel. While the missionary himself is for months or years debarred from evangelistic work by his ignorance of the language, a native agency stands waiting his employ. His circumstances and his wishes add stong emphasis to the oft-repeated truism, "China must be evangelized by the Chinese." So urgent seems the necessity to obtain native assistants that if such as he would like are not forthcoming, he is glad to avail himself of such as he can get. How many of us have thought in connection with some specially interesting inquirer, even before he is baptized, "What a capital assistant that man might make." (John Nevius, The Planting and Development of Missionary Churches, Monadnock Press, Hancock New Hampshire, 2003, p.21)
There is a church that my wife and I know well where almost none of the people on the church leadership committee are qualified to be there (this church uses a leadership committee instead of an elder board, deacon board, or some other form of church government). Sure they are aware of passages like 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 that lay out the Biblical qualifications for elders but those requirements don't seem to be very important to them. As in the time of Nevius,
Are Long Term Missionaries Obsolete?
I was recently talking with a pastor whose church does not send any long-term missionaries.It is a vibrant church with many members and a vision for missions, and they could probably send and support their own long-term missionaries if they wanted to.But it seems that they don't want to.Why not?This pastor told me about what he believes to be more strategic, more effective, and most cost-efficient way to do missions outreach than sending long-term missionaries.
This pastor and his church conduct many short-term training events and seminars throughout the world, gathering together a large group of local leaders and teaching them in an intensive course.When the course is done, the pastor and his team go back to the USA and the local leaders go back to their homes and churches, presumably to put into practice what they have learned.Besides live teaching from short-term missionaries, this pastor is also committed to getting a video training course called ISOM into the hands of groups of leaders in various countries, to be used in place of live teachers but administered by a local coordinator/facilitator who leads discussions about the video course material.It is his belief that Western churches can have a much bigger global impact for the Gospel by doing missions through this type of short-term leadership training rather than paying for long-term foreign missionaries (I am defining "missionary" as one who intentionally crosses barriers of language and culture to share the Gospel with those who would normally not have the opportunity to hear the Gospel within their cultural and/or linguistic context).
Valuing our Elderly
The following two stories from the lives of believers at the PhraBaht church (with whom we work) have reminded me of the special care that we need to take to value the elderly among us. "Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows." 1 Timothy 5:1-3 Pim's mother was discouraged. Weak and bedridden because of diabetes, she often had thoughts of death and recently she had been having dreams about her late older sister who was calling her to come join her. 'What's the point of living?' she thought to herself. 'It would be better if I were to die.' She would often vent her frustrations to her daughter and teenage grandson. One Sunday morning before church her grandson got tired of listening to her complain. Rather coldly, he said to her 'If you want to die, then die already' Those words cut her deeply and she refused to be taken to church that day. While Pim's mother lay at home with thoughts of death and worthlessness, the believers at church had different thoughts. They missed her. After church, Sun and Muay visited her to talk, pray, and read the Bible. A few days later, Arui came to encourage her. By the time Sunday came around again, her spirits had perked up a bit and she was glad to see us when we came to pick her up and bring her to church. I don't think that the preacher that day knew what had
True Repentance
What is true repentance? This morning I read Matthew 26 and as I reflected on it, I was struck by Matthew Henry's commentary on Peter's denial of Christ. Henry writes, "Peter wept bitterly. Sorrow for sin must not be slight, but great and deep. Peter, who wept so bitterly for denying Christ, never denied him again, but confessed him often in the face of danger. True repentance for any sin will be shown by the contrary grace and duty; that is a sign of our sorrowing not only bitterly, but sincerely."In Thailand, I have seen far too many professions of faith that bear no fruit. I have also heard too many Christians misdiagnose the problem of people who profess faith in Christ but don't follow through. One suggestion is that these backsliders need more encouragement. Another suggestion is that they need more follow-up and discipling. Both of these may be true to a degree depending upon how we understand the terms but neither seem to get at the heart of the matter that genuine repentance has likely not occurred. Repentance is not only stopping doing something bad but is also the beginning of doing something new. As Henry points out, Peter not only ceased denying Christ, but he also did the exact opposite - stood up and boldly proclaimed him from that point onward. Repentance does not consist of merely admitting to, or confessing ones sins either to God or to others. Repentance is a decisive turning from evil and self, and towards God. Granted, some new believers exhibit more obvious repentance earlier on because of the gross nature of their former life while others seem to grow or change more slowly as it is less obvious elements, like attitudes of the heart, which need the most change. But in either case,
Evangelical Unity in Thailand
How do very different denominations work together to do church planting? This is the big question that remains to be answered as the 7th Thailand Congress on Evangelism in Bangkok came to an end this past week. The conference brought together three of the largest Protestant church groups in Thailand - the Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT), the Thailand Baptist Convention, and the Evangelical Fellowship of Thailand (EFT). In the past, these large denominations didn't get along very well so it is encouraging to see leaders and members of these different groups coming together in order to pursue the goal of proclaiming Christ throughout Thailand. A few years back, the involved denominations had formed the Thailand Evangelism Coordinating Committee (TEC) and came up with Vision 2010 which aims to see a church planted in every provincial district (อำเภอ), a Christian group in every sub-district (ตำบล), and a Christian presence in every neighborhood/village (หมู่บ้าน).Throughout the conference pastors, Bible college professors, and other church leaders from the various groups preached on the themes of Obedience, Faithfulness, Unity, and Cooperation. Listening to the preachers, worship leaders, and other speakers up on stage, I got the sense that the goal of the week was not so much as to spell out how to work together in unity, but rather to rally the troops and encourage the people in attendance that unity is important and the God will work as we work together in obedience and faithfulness to the Great Commission.
Thai Church Denominations
The church landscape in every country looks a bit different, depending on local conditions and the missions history of that nation. Here in Thailand, Catholics have been in the country since the 1600s, and Protestants since the early 1800s. The Christian groups recognized by the Thai government, registered through the Department of Religion are the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Christ in Thailand (CCT), the Thailand Baptist Convention, the Evangelical Fellowship of Thailand (EFT), and the Seventh Day Adventists. Pentecostal groups with a significant presence in the country include the Hope of Bangkok church association, the Rom Glao (ร่มเกล้า) and Rom Yen (ร่มเย็น) church associations, Jai Saman church (large Bangkok church), the Full Gospel Church association, and the Assemblies of God (Christian Samphan). There are other church associations, I am sure, but the ones mentioned above are the biggies. It should also be noted that the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and other cult groups are in Thailand as well although I am not sure how they are recognized by the government or how they get their visas.CCT was started by American Presbyterians in the 19th century and currently maintains fraternal ties with the Presbyterian Church (USA), although it now includes Baptists, Lutherans and Pentecostals and is overall probably more evangelical than the PCUSA. The Church of Christ in Thailand is not associated with the Church of Christ denomination in the United States.
The Thailand Baptist Convention is associated with the Southern Baptist Convention in the USA, and the EFT is really more of an umbrella organization that includes many different smaller church groups, including the Associated Churches of Thailand (ACT), a broadly evangelical church association which is connected to OMF, the mission organization that we are part of.Generally speaking, Pentecostal churches make up a significant section of Thai Protestant churches thought I don't think that they constitute a majority. That said, Pentecostal theology and worship style extends far beyond churches that would identify themselves as Pentecostal. It seems that a majority of Thai churches are egalitarian to a large degree although most pastors are still men. However, the few explicitly Reformed churches that exist (and some Baptist churches) retain more a traditional complementarian view (only men as pastors).This past week I attended the 7th Thailand Congress on Evangelism in Bangkok which brought together three of the largest Protestant church groups (CCT, Baptists, & EFT). In my next post, I'll share some thoughts on the conference and take a look at the state of evangelical Protestant unity in Thailand.
In Defense of the Sermon - Part 2
In the previous post, we looked at the Biblical precedent for preaching and saw that sermons are not merely a Western cultural tradition but have their foundation in the pages of Scripture. In this post, I would like to wrap up by responding to some objections to maintaining the sermon as a central part of the life of the Christian church.Objection#1 "Sermons are ineffective" Perhaps you will grant to me the fact that preaching is important in Scripture but would go on to add that times have changed and sermons just don't "work". In some ways, I agree. I have heard lots of sermons that just don't work. But it is not because the idea of preaching a sermon is a bad one but rather because the sermon that someone decided to preach was a bad sermon. It was boring. It was irrelevant. It was mostly the preacher's own ideas and hobby horses with little reference to Scripture. It explained the meaning of the passage for ancient Israelites but failed to show how it applies to modern listeners. It was all puffed up emotion or moralistic platitudes with little reference to Scripture. It did nothing to address the misunderstandings and objections of the listeners, failing to make people see what God is saying and how it intersects with their life. It is just a collection of observations about the passage that the preacher thought were interesting but there is no overall coherent message. The preacher, fearing that he will lose people, fills his sermon with too many irrelevant funny stories that at the end of the day make people laugh but fails to feed them with the Word of God. There are lots of examples of bad sermons but that is not any justification for


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Monday, 27 October 2014
With love from the Isles of Scilly 1926
I felt at home as soon as I had set foot back on the Isles of Scilly. This is perhaps the secret of the islands, people return year after year because it has the ability to make you 'feel at home'. Home is where the heart is....
On my rapid return to the mainland I quite unwittingly unearthed a postcard from my Great Grandfather William Earnshaw of Solihull, Warwickshire who would have roamed and cycled the same simple and stunning countryside made famous by the authoress and nature lover Edith Holden. She wrote the charming depiction of the beauty of Warwickshire in the 1920's 'Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady' which was an instant best seller.
The small postcard was of Peninnis Head, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, the very spot that I had recently returned from. I had no idea he had even been there and I had never seen the postcard before. He wrote:
Scilly Isles August 23rd 1926
'Dearest Evelyn, I am having a day here staying at Penzance, glorious sunny weather and magical islands to explore on my bike. Lands End tomorrow and then off to St Ives, North Cornwall. Never saw such beautiful country. All well and do wished you could have joined me. The enclosed sprig of heather is from the island which is a good luck charm. I believe the islands are owned by the Prince of Wales. I will call at Ilfracombe Post Office if you drop me a card there'.
He would have travelled on the first Scillonian vessel which set sail in 1926 providing a regular passage from the mainland to the islands.
It is rather touching to find that four generations of my family have now been visiting the islands which perhaps explains the irresistible pull as anyone who has had the pleasure of visiting will fully understand.
It all feels like a rather jumbled puzzle which is finally falling very nicely into place !!
Posted by Sally Townsend-Perry at 17:28
Labels: 1920's, Country Diary, Great Grandfather, history, Scillonian, Solihull, Warwickshire
1 comment:
- Canadian Chickadee said...
What a wonderful story! It's such a treat to find out a fact, however small, about one's ancestors. I've been doing some genealogical research about my family, and find that I had a great-great-great-grandmother from Norway whose name was Ingeborg. Who knew?
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