Thursday, 21 August 2014
Touch and go: Tourists can now pay for Blackpool seaside donkey ride with DEBIT CARD, Daily Express
BLACKPOOL'S
famous donkeys have trotted their way into the 21st century - by allowing
seaside tourists to swipe a DEBIT CARD over their saddles.
Instead
of letting the kids down when the hunt for small change in their pocket fails,
parents can instead scan their bank cards or enter their pin numbers into the
seats to go along the Lancashire seaside resort's Golden Mile.
The
decision to give the long-standing family tradition a makeover was taken by
Mark Ineson, owner of Real Donkeys UK, who has sold donkey rides on the seaside
town's beach for almost 20 years.
After
recognising the boom in 'touch and go' payments he teamed up with Barclaycard
to go contactless.
Hoping
to give his business a "much-needed boost", he said: "Over the
years I've had to turn hundreds of kids away because mums and dads don't have
the cash on them to pay for a ride on Dillon and the beach is often the last
place you want to be carrying lots of change.
"So
I approached Barclaycard to see whether they could help solve the problem.
"The
saddle they've come up with means hundreds more people will be able to
experience one of the Great British seaside traditions and have a donkey ride
along the sands.
"It
also shows that, regardless of how traditional your business might be, there
are always new things to trial that can give it a much-needed boost."
Comment:
While
watching BBC Breakfast news this morning, and it mentioned this story, my immediate thought was to check the calendar to see if today’s
date wasn’t April the 1st,
relieved that it wasn’t April the 1st and somehow I hadn’t missed
the last few months of my life, and then
feeling disappointed that my dream that I
was Dr Who was just a dream!, I thought
that this story was very clever and thought provoking, well done to Real Donkeys of Blackpool and
Barclaycard for introducing, although I
do feel it’s a marketing promotion.
Your Personal Responsibility in Church Discipline
Your Personal Responsibility in Church Discipline

Jesus made it clear that the discipline process should always begin with a one-on-one encounter: “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private” (Matthew 18:15). Discipline is not instituted by a committee. If the offender repents, there is no need to involve others at all.
Discipline, if successful, both suppresses the effects of sin and limits the circle of knowledge. Far from broadcasting knowledge of someone’s sin unnecessarily, the discipline process confines knowledge of the offense as much as possible. In most cases, if repentance occurs early enough in the process, no one but the offender and the person who confronts ever needs to know about the offense.
Why Do We Put ‘Christian Celebrities’ on a Pedestal?, Charisma Magazine
Gungor.
Vicky Beeching. Mark Driscoll. David Yonggi Cho. What do all these names have
in common? Controversy.
Of
course, a blogger like myself could not go silent on these issues.
When
situations like this arise, we are challenged, confused, disillusioned. We
often resort to bashing, freaking out, and being disgusted (or excited) when a
Christian celebrity falls.
When
I think of the aforementioned names, I think of children of God who followed
the call of God, were used mightily by God, and are being honest with their
struggles. Mistakes have been made; power has been abused. But that's no excuse
to write people off.
An
Issue of Worship
Allow
me to issue a challenge—to you, to me. This is about worship. When situations
like this arise, I wonder whom we are worshiping, what we're prioritizing. Our
worship culture so often becomes a consumer game of digesting the latest,
greatest songs and resources, idolizing the people who carry the gifts of God.
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