I'm Moving

Well I've decided to more from Blogspot to Wordpress. The new address is http://kiwilowdown.wordpress.com/. I'll will be updating from there from now on.

Cheers
Jimmy

It's Been a While

So as seems to be common among many blogs, it loses its novelty. This is certainly what happened here. However I have good intentions, it would be great if I could start contributing to this alot more, my problem is I don't know how. I'm sure people don't want to read about the life of Jimmy - unless it can be made interesting. But right now it's not, I study, sleep, eat, study, spend time with Briar, eat and every now and then catch up with mates. I could talk about the current assignment I'm working on, but that will not see the creation of many posts, not to mention its limited appeal. I have tried recently to post photo's of various things from places I've been recently, but this hasn't proved very productive either.

Maybe I'll spend some time thinking about writing one thing a week, rather than writing several small ones a day like apparently 'true' bloggers such as Scot McKnight (who I like reading).

Anyhows, I guess I'd better stop procrastinating from my assignment, and get back to it. Wonder what I should write about this week....its Tuesday already :s

Cheers

Jimmy

Welcome

Hey...well...we [I] haven't posted anything for a while, but here is the post to represent our alive and kicking existence on this planet earth. We've been out and about over the last few weeks visiting family. Ended it all with a visit to Masterton for Christmas and the Kapiti Coast for the gap in between boxing day and new years.

Hope everyone else had a great christmas and happy new years!

Cheers

Philip

Another Update

This is a mere update in the scheme of things. I'm thinking about changing the layout again, but that all depends on what else is available. Having only one side-bar is proving limiting. I've also added Twitter for family and anyone else interested in what goes on from time to time during our days. The Blogroll has been updated, I've put a couple more on that aren't as emerging(ent) related.

Jimmy

Piha

Well we spent a few hours down at the Piha market this mornin. Was a little disappointed over the size, but there we definitely some interesting stalls there. Maori stuff, stall with cheap second hand tools, trinkets, complex puzzles, food, cool clothin and other stuff. They even had the local Native Indians singing the whole morning.

This is one of the Native Indians trying to sell one of their albums to a passerby.

There was three of four of them with heaps of different instruments. It was quite cool to listen to.

This is a shot down one of the alleys (?). Was quite a busy place. Any how I enjoyed it, I came out with a new wrist thing, puzzle and an Indian bird whistler :).

Hope all are well.

Cheers

Jimmy

Name Change

Hey

Well we (Briar and I) decided on a name change finally.  Same Stuff Different Day was just a temp name inspired by the movie Dreamcatcher.  It is Kiwi's lowdown cause 1) we're Kiwi's 2) this is where we update on what we're getting up to (this is opposed to updating Facebook status every five minutes which sometimes seems a bit silly) 3) Kiwi-land (New Zealand) is pretty geographically low in the world.  In fact I think we should set Stewart Island up for attractive flights and cruises to the antarctic - which may include glass bottom boats to watch the underwater antarctican wildlife. 4) Also it seems that alot of theological discussion and influence comes from other areas of the world e.g. Germany, Switzerland,England, France, America.  I'm not saying there is none from the NZ, but that most of my reading around current ideas come from offshore people.  If only I had $500,000 to study overseas....

On other news, (as I'm relatively new to the blog scene I am discovering alot of stuff still) I have found a good blog by C Michael Patton on 'Will The Real Emerger Please Stand-Up?' Warning, it is quite lengthy, but it is quite informative on topic of emerging church.  It explains a (the?) relationship between fundamentalism, orthodoxy, evangelicism, emerging and emergent.  Perhaps the most useful for me was how he distinguished the difference between emerging and emergent.  There are other blogs on there bout emerging church, but I haven't had enough time to read them yet. I'm sure they're good.

Chairs

Jimmy

The Temple

Hey peeps

Thought I'd post something and show that I havn't forgotten bout the blog.  Been real busy with assignments.  Got 5 due in next week which I'm workin hard to finish off.  Briars got a big one due in next week as well.  Generally we're doing well though.
Hey it's also our friend Luzettes birthday tomorrow as well.  She does some interesting stuff for Scripture Union so if you want go leave her a strangers 'happy birthday' comment on her blog.

This site has a bit of interesting imagery and info on the temple during Jesus' life on earth. Check it out here if your interested.

Catch you guys laters

Chairs

Jimmy

Gone South

Hey Babe

Here are a couple of photo's. It's freezing down here, my fingers were blue and numb doing this! Was rather heavy as well. Lookin forward to talking to you later.




Take Care!

P-Diddy