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The problem was a combination of weather (grey skies, low temperatures, a little snow), bad insulation (corrugated metal ceiling with no insulation above) and inadequate heating (electric radiators which we turned on on our arrival). I regretted not wearing my mega-thick coat - I had a thin jumper and my fleece. But a good scarf-thing. When the sun shines in it warms the room well but no sun, no warmth. The chemical toilet is working OK, though we all long for proper sewage. The sewage company is coming to look in Febaruary. Still, we'll get there. We'll get there. In the evening we were cosy and snug crammed into the small room with an electric radiator and fortified by hot drinks. Some new faces again - two Korean girls and a Peruvian chap. Pat counted 18. That's not bad in that small room. .

Ici . You can read Don's article in English here .

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Last night at répé we had a full complement of trombones : François on bass, Théo on 2nd, Me on 3rd and Damien on 1st. The dream team. OK, well a nightmare is a type of dream, isn't it. The saxes were thin on the ground - just Mélanie, Fréd and Olivier. Half force. Two trumpets. Half force. Drum kit, but no guitars or piano. We had resonance ! Below our rehearsal room a space is being renovated to be a Muslim prayer room. We talked a bit about that and the difficulty religious groups have to find a place to meet because of the way Laïcité à la française is interpreted and applied. .

Some people just don't get the idea of Facebook. It's easy. Birthdays ! And keeping in touch with people who move house without telling, and so on. Twitter had me baffled, though. Why send an SMS to everyone in the world ? Then last night I realised. It's an exercise in style. Consider the following examples : Don_Carson   D. A. Carson   Christians must firmly insist that there can be no genuine faith apart from knowledge of what is true (and of Him who is true). Ligonier   Ligonier   The awesome apocalypse of God’s judgment can only be faced with a clear knowledge of God’s goodness to us in Christ. -@ MarkDever ChrisDonato   Chris Donato     by Tabletalk_Mag We ought not separate duty from delight. They're in a reciprocal relationship. Ligonier   Ligonier   The Christian life means to live all of your life in the presence of God. -R.C. Sproul desiringgod   Desiring God   DA Carson: The coming of God's reig...

One of the things I try to do is to meet up with guys to read together. It helps us both tackle books we might not get through otherwise and it gives opportunity for good discussion. Iron and iron and so on. Christian books are NIGHTMARISHLY expensive in France, too, and since we have a little fund called "work expenses" I think using some to buy good books for students is a capital use of that. Sometimes the students don't quite get the idea and they give me the book back afterwards ! So I have a copy of La Foi Chretienne en Libre Accès  to give away, and something else, too, that I've forgotten the title of... Anyway, one guy and I were after a book to read together and I wanted a book on preaching for someone else - either Olyott Prêcher comme Jésus or Chappell Prêcher, l'art et la manière . Oh yes, and Don Carson's Call for Spiritual Reformation in French for a colleague. Oh yes, and a little stock of 1€50 Bibles for giving away on campus. So off we ...

Fed up about administration (could be worse - I could be in Britain filling in my tax return !) Kids badly behaved in the collège chapel (could be worse - I could be trying to teach them maths !) But there were encouragements to counterbalance, thankfully.