Nathanael Davison

I'm a Christian, Emmanuel Church Northstowe. Developer turned Product Manager @citrix. I tweet about those things (mostly the first).

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Kate Forbes: Christianity and Politics: Four questions worth wrestling with and some attempted answers 🧵

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@steve_kneale Leveraging a name and reputation is a great way to build engagement. Still dangerous, but not necessarily 'honorific'.

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Struck by the number of strong women in Exodus 1&2, quietly resisting the king of the greatest empire to have ever existed. Midwives Shiphrah & Puah. Moses' mother & sister. Pharaoh's daughter. Zipporah.

Examples of faithfulness in a hostile land.

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@MHLillicrap Your phone connects to their wifi when you arrive... ?

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C.S. Lewis -

"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide."

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The Incredibles has one of my favourite film quotes:

"You always say 'Be true to yourself', but you never say which part of yourself to be true to."

Challenges one of the common cultural messages today. Spoken by one of the most relatable movie villains.

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@K_L_Phillips 😅

I did want to ask you for other examples or thoughts on Jerusalem being personified so explicitly as ps122, and described as being *like* a city where you'd expect it to just say *is* a city closely compacted.

But you were chatting to someone else so I thought I'd save it :)

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@K_L_Phillips Psalm 122? :)

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Demeans actual close friends (particularly those who are single). Puts significant additional responsibility on the partner to be the entire support network while also reducing marriage to something like 'friends-with-benefits.'

Or is it just me?

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Does anyone else cringe when they hear someone describe their spouse as their best friend?

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@mattoliver83 @uk_timwilson @DaveGobbett @andyconstable @algooderham Went through it with colleagues before christmas, did it all using ppt & sharing video over zoom. Balance of sharing screen to see passage/questions & not so we could see each other was tough, would look to get books into people's hands next time. Can send you slides if helpful.

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After hearing @holland_tom suggest it in a podcast, I've found it very useful when UK christians speak on Lockdown/Brexit/Trump/etc. to ask "Could I hear the same things from a local Lib Dem councillor?" In many cases the church misses that it has so much more to offer.

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@euryanthe1 Good points undermined by poor exegesis in my opinion. Also felt like it was written for a different audience/cultural context. Some good takeaways though, including discussion of John 4. Tell me what you think when you get to it!

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Seems like it's fashionable around this time to produce top 10 lists for the past year. Thought I'd do books, but since I've only read about 10 this year decided to just list the ones I remember in no particular order. Keen to discuss any of them.

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From what I can tell, the events which made Spurgeon describe 1866 as "the most gloomy of our lives" included a disease epidemic (Cholera), a global recession ("Panic of 1866"), and political turmoil (vote of no confidence, split in the Liberal party). All sounds very familiar...

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From a Spurgeon Sermon, preached January 6th, 1867

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Can anyone tell me what went on in the year 1866?

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From a Spurgeon Sermon, preached January 6th, 1867

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And probably 1 or 2 more I've already forgotten...

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Non-Fiction:
Paul: A Biography - Tom Wright
Worthy - Fitzpatrick & Schumacher (disappointing)
2084 - John Lennox
Through Gates of Splendour - Elisabeth Elliot (excellent)
Sapiens - Yuval Harari
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy (does this count?)