Cropper ... Recadrage

     

C'est impressionant la différence un petit recadage peut apporter à une photo.

Amazing the difference a little crop can make.

40 days ... 40 jours

Suite des textes 40 jours
Ps. 33.3 "Chantez pour Lui un chant nouveau! Jouez bien de vos instruments pour l'acclamation"

More from the 40 days
Psalm 145:9 "The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works"

Ovronnaz

 

Encore quelques photos d'éclaircis du week-end d'église.

A few more photos from the church weekend away.

 

J'aurais dû faire une panoramique avec ces deux.

I guess I should have stitched these two together to make a panorama.

 

J'ai pris celle-ci dans la voiture, à cause des bouts de nuage qui s'entrelaçaient autour des pics de montagnes, mais on ne voit pas très bien.

I took this one while driving home in the car - mainly for the wisps of cloud which were wrapping themselves round the mountain peaks. You can't see it very well here though.

 

Ici avec un peu de zoom on voit mieux, mais en vrai c'était magnifique.

Zoomed and cropped you can see a bit better.

Photo vertige

 

Il y a quelques semaines nous avons été en studio pour faire des photos de famille, profitant d'un bon prix trouvé sur le site topdeal.ch, à travers la femme de mon collègue (merci Séverine!).

On a été super bien accueilli, c'était un bon moment agréable, et il y a quelques jours on a reçu un CD dans la poste avec le résultat.

Si vous habitez par là, voilà donc une bonne adresse: http://www.photovertige.ch/.

A few weeks ago we spent an hour-and-a-bit in a photo studio, having our photo taken. We got a good price via a Groupon-style website (topdeal.ch), discovered via the wife of my colleague (blog here).

It was a suprisingly pleasant experience (compared to a wedding, in any case), and it seems to show in the results, which we received by post on a CD this last week.

So, worth checking out if you live round here: http://www.photovertige.ch/.

Church weekend ... Week-end d'église

 

Le week-end passé, on été à trois au week-end d'église, à Ovronnaz. C'était très beau, mais on été 'la tête dans les nuages'.

Last weekend, me and the girls went to the church weekend away in Ovronnaz. Very beautiful, but literally "head in the clouds".

 

Ca n'a pas empêché les enfants de profiter des quelques "éclaircis" (sans pluie)

Which didn't stop the kids getting outside to play whenever it stopped raining.

 

Au dernier repas, Rebecca s'est assis parmi les grand, comme une grande.

For the last meal, Rebecca went off to eat on her own with the grown-ups.

Une photo pour montrer les amateurs de pétanque, au soleil, avec le nuage qui approche dérrière.

This photo of friends watching a game of petanque, just to show that they are in the sun, but the cloud is creeping up on them from behind.

Church music

It's Church Music Month on iMonk, which is leading to lots of interesting discussions. Here are a few snippets:

I’m somewhat angry about having this avalanche of industrially produced music forced on me for a dozen insufficient reasons. The way the church’s canon of singable, theologically meaningful music has been detonated in the name of anything that creates what growth oriented churches demand is stunning. We’ve been brutal in this process and we’re going to be sorry in the long run.

   (Singing in the Evangelical Liturgy)

There is such a thing as too much music, even when all the music is good music, in the same sense that there is such a thing as too much food even when all of it is nutritious. Musical gluttony is not uncommon either in general culture or in Christian music making. In fact, it is virtually beyond argument that music is so nearly omnipresent in our lives that it has become absent, not in the acoustical sense, but in the sense of having true significance.

    (Harold Best on Sound and Silence)

... it is my opinion that ... this kind of music and many other practices in evangelicalism are used in corporate “worship” — because people are seeking an emotional connection to God.

The historic traditions look at it differently — we are already connected to God through Christ in the Gospel. Worship is primarily objective not subjective: it involves reenacting and announcing and celebrating what God has already done to reconcile us rather than trying to have an “experience” of becoming or feeling connected. He is already present, we don’t need to “make” him present. We are already in the closest possible union with him because of Christ, we don’t need anything else to “connect” us.

We come together to meet with a Savior who is already present and who blesses through Word and Table, regardless of my emotional condition at any given moment. And, I might add, even if I felt nothing or failed to “experience God’s presence” after a worship service, I can still truthfully say, “I worshipped this morning.”

    (Three worship songs now in the top 25 - in the comments)

40 days ... 40 jours

Pour mon anniversaire, Madame a demandé aux amis de fournir (environ) 40 cadeaux, et 40 cartes pour ouvrir pendant le mois qui suivait. Pour ne pas oublier, je pense mettre les textes ici, un peu à la fois.

Esaie 40.31 "Ceux qui comptent sur le Seigneur renouvellent leurs forces"

(Note: les photos pour cette série sont piquées sur internet, pas made in Benjol)

For my birthday, Madame organised my friends into giving me 40 little presents and 40 cards with verses or inspirational bits on. Posting them here will be a good way to not forget!

Peter 5:7 "Casting all your care on upon Him, for He careth for you"

(Note: the photos for this series are filched off the Internet, not mine)