Breakfast Buffet

Welcome to the breakfast buffet. A selection of links for you to feast on.

• Freshers' week isn't Brideshead Revisited [Telegraph Newspaper]
  I've never read or watched Brideshead Revisited, but this article talks about the drinking culture of Freshers' week. Here's an excerpt:
  

  London is probably not as badly affected by the Freshers' Week phenomenon as some provincial cities: there is a healthy leavening of overseas students, for whom binge-drinking is a badge of shame, not a sign that you are cool and part of the in-crowd. But the scourge of Freshers' Week – that bitter-sweet rite of passage, which is never quite as good as you drunkenly imagine it to be – is everywhere.
  

• Conflict resolution requires Spirit-filling [Adrian Warnock]
  A solution to the problem highlighted above - the Holy Spirit. This post is mainly a quote from Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Here's an excerpt:
  

  The world is characterized by divisions, by clashes, everybody wanting to be first, everybody wanting to be important. That is, of course, the main cause of all the problems and the difficulties that are confronting the world at this present time. Now the Apostle’s statement asserts that there is really only one solution to that problem, and that is, that men and women be filled with the Holy Spirit of God.
  

• Seven reasons we need small groups [Dave Bish]
  I haven't been part of an official small group for a few months now, and life's harder. After church I spent a while chatting to a good (older) friend and it was really encouraging, but here are seven reasons we need small groups to keep going. Here's point three:

  Listeners in a big group can more easily evade redemptive crises. If tears well up in your eyes in a small group, wise friends will gently find out why. But in a large gathering, you can just walk away from it.
  

That was your first breakfast buffet. Tomorrow, more regular breakfast.