Saturday, June 23, 2012

Books for sale

So I've decided to have a bit of a book clean out, if you want any of the below books please let me know with offers of money.



Title
Author
7 Biblical Truths You Won't Hear in Church: But Might Change Your Life
David A. Rich
Against All Odds: My Story
Chuck Norris, Ken Abraham
Bible Study Made Easy
Mark Water
Billy
Pamela Stephenson
Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly
Pamela Stephenson
Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus
Mark Yaconelli
Drama Ministry
Steve Pederson
Dude, Where's My Country?
Michael Moore
Every Young Man's Battle Guide: Weapons for the War Against Sexual Temptation
Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker
Every Young Man's Battle: Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation
Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorkey
Face Down
Matt Redman
Freemasonry Invisible Cult
HARRIS JACK
Fruit That Will Last
Tim Hawkins
How to Live Like a King's Kid: Rollicking and Incisive...the Reflections and Recollections of an Engineerings Executive
Harold Hill, Irene Harrell
I Peed On Fellini
David Stratton
In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?
Charles M. Sheldon
Leaders Who Will Last: How to Become the Effective Youth Leader That God Really Wants
Tim Hawkins
Master Plan of Evangelism, The
Robert E. Coleman
Not Quite Straight
Jeffrey Smart
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Provocative Faith: Walking Away from Ordinary
Matthew Paul Turner
Questions of Life
Nicky Gumbel
Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence for Every Believer
J.Oswald Sanders
Stupid White Men: ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Michael Moore
The Arts in Your Church: A Practical Guide
Fiona Bond
The Barbarian Way: Unleash the Untamed Faith Within
Erwin Raphael McManus
The Case for Christ-Youth Edition: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
Lee Strobel
The Christian Culture Survival Guide: The Misadventures of an Outsider on the Inside
Matthew Paul Turner
The Father Heart of God: Experiencing the Depths of His Love for You
Floyd McClung
The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
Rick Warren
The Way of the Wild Heart Manual: A Personal Map for Your Masculine Journey
John Eldredge
Through Gates of Splendour: The Five Missionary Martyrs of Ecuador
Elisabeth Elliot
Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues : Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings
Mark Eddy Smith
Visions & Voyages: The Story of Celtic Spirituality
Fay Sampson
What You Didn't Learn from Your Parents About Christianity: A Guide to a Spirited Subject
Matthew Paul Turner

Saturday, June 16, 2012

King of beers?

I was thinking about beer the other day, more so about what the brand of beer one chooses to drink says about the drinker.
I drink a lot of european and beers from microbreweries. from this, one can deduce that I am some kind of pretentious hipster twat which of course has some truth in it for if you were to walk into the room at this very moment, you would notice that I am wearing rather tight jeans which is the mark of a hipster.
boutique beers and tight jeans does not a hipster make. I wear tight jeans because i have great legs for it. a fact that i have been told on numerous occasions and if this be the case, why not flaunt it and why not flaunt it in a brunswick street pub drinking German beer.

I drink different beers to experience a wide range of flavours, from the German weissbier to an English Lager. I drink microbrewery beer out of respect for the brewing process. I drink my Dad's homebrew because he offers it to me and I'm to polite to refuse.

My brother in law drinks Budweiser which has been liked by some as making love in a canoe, (I shan't elaborate on this to its proper extent, what is implied is that the beer is "fornicating close to water) he almost exclusively this american variety. I don't mean to judge him based on his choice of brew however I wish to make not of the advertising slogan of the aforesaid beer.
Budweiser markets itself as "the king of beers." I find this odd. To think that the most popular beer in the worlds foremost republic would market itself as "king" seem sat odds with the US system of government. Budweiser should be calling itself "the president of beers," but then I realised, for a beer to  be president, someone has to vote for said president which rather a lot of hassle. there i the whole election thing which could result in Budweiser having to change its marketing every four years.
based on this,  I can see why they went with the king option. they could simply declare it "king" and no one could refute it.

I am looking forward too the day when another beer rises up and declares itself king, there would be a brewing war of the roses. two giants of brewing go up against each other only to have a small micro brewery ride in from afar and usurp the crown creating a mighty kingdom of hipsters in the process.