http://blog.perret.nu a view on Life from a Northern perspective Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:49:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Been reading about the 24-7 prayer movement in the book "Red Moon Rising". In the book Pete Grieg relates a vision he had. Here's the vision: So this guy comes up to me and says, “What’s the vision? What’s the big idea?” I open up my mouth and the words come out ... http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2007/06/26/the-vision.html I'm on my yearly retreat in Sheffield, at Visitors' Week. Some people have asked me why I keep coming back time after time again. I think the answer to that question has to do with the people and the place. Let's start with the place. To me, St Thomas' Church in ... http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2007/06/14/visitors%e2%80%99-week-sheffield.html Yesterday, we opened up our Figtive Works online t-shirt shop. Go and check it out! Among my favourites, a t-shirt with a cereal bowl and the text:"I eat Clusters for breakfast." http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2007/06/13/i-eat-clusters-for-breakfast.html It's been a busy week. Came home from Copenhagen last night. Going to Sheffield for a week now. Sitting at the airport, waiting for my delayed flight to Manchester. So for the first time in a long time, I've got time to think. And nothing to do but write. Some of ... http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2007/06/11/ode-to-thomas.html I'm involved in a new Podcast, Kingdom Life, that's gone live a week ago. We've got two episodes out now, interviewing Anders Michael Hansen and Steve Cockram. Subscribe on iTunes, or listen to the podcast on www.figtiveworks.com! http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2007/02/01/figtive-works-podcast-launched.html Am testing out MS Word 2007, actually the whole Office suite. Thought I'd check out Word's new integrated "blogging with Word" feature, which automatically publishes to my Wordpress server… Cool if it works…  Christoffer http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2007/01/31/blogging-with-word-2007.html We're a quick fix culture. I wanna learn how to do business in a 2 day intensive course. I wanna learn how to heal people I pray for in a 2 day intensive course. I wanna learn new stuff by reading a 2 page summary. I wanna get rich without ... http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2006/12/15/quick-fix-culture.html When [John Wesley][] was asked what he had done to start a revival, he answered: I set myself on fire and people come to see me burning [John Wesley]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley "John Wesley" http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2006/12/14/how-to-start-a-revival.html Been reading a lot of great books recently. Am currently reading one that will probably change my life. It's called ["The 7 habits of highly effective people"][sevenhabits], and written by Stephen R. Covey. The title sounds just another leadership book. But the book is truly amazing. And btw, did I ... http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2006/12/14/do-you-want-to-change-the-world.html We launched our new Figtive site today; a site that I'm really proud of. [Ben][] has done a really good job on this one. Go check out the new [Figtive Works site][figtive]! [Ben]: http://eot.bof.nu "Ben's blog" [figtive]: http://www.figtiveworks.com/content/view/7/39/ "Figtive Works" http://blog.perret.nu/index.php/2006/11/22/figtive-works-site-launched.html