les Davey de France

I know the title is chock-full of juicy, baffling jargon, but the points made here are rather interesting all the same.

"I work in the grand distribution and so I know", said our neighbour, assuring us that Géant Casino, our usual supermarket, is the dearest. "Apart from the hard discount you should shop at Auchan, Carrefour or LeClerc." Well the nearest Auchan is halfway round the ring-road and our local LeClerc is small and poky, but we're equidistant between Géant Casino Pessac and Carrefour Mérignac. Never let it be said that I won't take advice. We switched to Carrefour, despite their apparently dodgy policies regarding deforestation, of which I was blissfuly unaware and about which even now I remain confused. I reckon we save about 10 euros a week, perhaps more, by shopping at Carrefour. Not only that but they have these natty scanner tills where if you use a self-scan doodah ( scannette ) you can then pay at a self-service till and get out of the store in seconds ! However they don't have toilet paper with aloe vera, which was one of the real highlights o...

on the car - done. Legal for another two years. We have to soon renew the brake discs and pads. We knew that anyway. One fog-light doesn't work. But they're not required ot by law so I don't care. Stuff like that. All OK. So that's me and the car looked over and passed fit to circulate. .

Look ! Just look at this !

1) Contrôle technique of the car (MOT) 2) Visit of Peter Nye from the mission Tues to Thursday to survey possibilities for a work team from Operation Centurion 3) Sort out and clean study and turn it from a troll's den into a desirable guest room by putting a mattress on the floor. (see 2) 4) CNEF meeting this evening, thankfully in Pessac because Catrin has solfège lesson also in Pessac. 5) Normal evening meetings : CNEF Monday, PM Tuesday, Café philo prep and Bible study Wednesday, English Class Thursday. 6) Surveys on campus and in town ? 7) Meeting with Patrick to discuss work teams (see 2) 8) Register gor Geneva Bible Institute conference in May (Don Cobb, Don Carson, John Piper et al) 9) Sunday English service and also visit of Comité d'Evaluation. Let's get on with it !

On Friday Catrin was ill. A kind of undefined cold/flu seasonal illness. On Saturday afternoon Gwilym developed a tummy bug. Catrin bounced back to life on Saturday but Gwilym is not yet restored. Meanwhile Saturday night was the Chinese group at Pessac (in French -> Mandarin), Sunday morning the French service at Anglade and Sunday evening the English service at Cenon. It's great, but you have to keep your wits about you. One weakness of the trombone and the flute is that they are not all that useful for accompaniment. The Chinese have a good keyboard player and two violinists but at Anglade and in Cenon we sang unaccompanied albeit with gusto ! Also we don't yet have heating at the church because the reversible aircon units are to be installed on the walls above the toilets, and we don't yet have walls above the toilets. Not only that but the circuit installed to the wall-sockets isn't tripped enough to run electric heaters. So yesterday morning the...

JESUS TELLS HIS “FRIENDS” not to be afraid “of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him” ( Luke 12:4–5 ). The Gospel demands that we examine not only our loves, but our fears. We are to love God above all others; so also are we to fear him above all others. The reason is the same in both cases: he is God. He deserves our passionate adoration; he is not to be trifled with. His untrammeled holiness evokes our awe; it also evokes our fear. We should love him now, and we will love him without reserve in the new heaven and the new earth; we should fear him, for he has both the power and the right to exclude us from the new heaven and the new earth. Again, how many of our decisions in life are shaped in part by what people think or, more precisely, by what we fear they will think? In short, we are often afraid of people—if not afrai...