Inevitable flourishing
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »At Connect (the UWA Christian Union Inter-College Christian group) we're looking at the parables of Jesus in Luke's gospel. Next monday it's Luke 13:18-21, which kind of has two parts to it, both comparing the Kingdom of God to 'everyday' ...
Paul
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Paul, aka. Saul, is an important guy as Christian history goes. His ultra-jewishness, dramatic conversion and subsequent hard-core life of service makes for a pretty interesting biography. The BBC program 'In Our Time' with Melvyn Bragg recently did a program ...
Australians think what…?
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Like a fish surrounded by it's water, sometimes it's hard for us to know what the society around us really thinks about Jesus. The media alone will present various different representations of the Australian public - from surly atheists to ...
from the indo boys
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Hi everyone! Our team just flew to Pontianak yesterday after a ripper of a time in Jakarta and Bundung. As I write we are only a few minutes away from hitting the road to Bodok... which will really be stepping outside ...
much more eloquent than I could hope to be
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me. But each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life. Psalm 42:7-8 photo ...
bamboo bikers
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Who's up for a bit of eco-self-propulsion? Check out this website that suggests you make your own bamboo bike, in the space of one weekend! It's all for a good cause, though - they support the establishment of bamboo bike manufacturing in majority world ...
mean girl
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »The other day I was mean to a check-out chick. I was in a rush and she wasn’t as fast as I wanted her to be. Afterwards I wondered why God had bought that set of circumstances about, and I ...
outside in, inside out
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »It’s often hard to see how ‘theories’ of change expressed the Bible and Christian belief are played out in real life, especially the idea of real, lasting change in our lives and behaviours. Tim Chester, in his book ‘You can ...
a dawdling heart
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I was reading proverbs this morning and it reminded me about how central the condition of my heart is to my rubber-hits-the-road life and future. A peaceful heart gives life to the flesh (leads to a healthy body), but envy makes the ...
my little god
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »‘Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished’ Malachi 1:14 Christians aren’t into Jesus because we’re eager to win his favour, but because we’re thankful for ...
