Speech

Yesterday at Christmas dinner, my dad gave me a copy of the speech he made at my wedding. Lots of people have told me since we got married that dad’s speech was one of the best they’d ever heard. Unfortunately, because the day was a bit of a blur, I don’t remember much of what [...]

a favour

While cleaning out our study yesterday, I started to get a bit nostalgic. Our study is where we keep things that don’t really have a home in other parts of the house - dairies, notebooks, old cards and letters, sermon outlines, etc. It made me realise that Sam and I have hardly any photos of our [...]

100 Thing Challenge

I read this article on smh.com today about a guy who has set himself a challenge to live with only 100 things next year. From his website: The 100 Thing Challenge is a personal project, a way for me to fight consumerism. What’s behind it? My belief that material possessions can be good when they serve [...]

Holidays

College has been on holidays now for a few weeks, and I’ve realised that I haven’t posted once! I’ve been working almost full time these holidays, which has been strangely refreshing. I’ve got a gig behind the machine at Pablo and Rusty’s Olympic Park espresso bar - which has been a real treat. It means working [...]

on children and gifts

Child psychologist Gregory Ramey says buying children lots of toys at Christmas may not be the best thing for them. an excerpt from the SMH story which I found interesting: Here’s what will happen in many families. Children will develop elaborate lists of toys they niether need nor will use beyond a few days. Parents will go further [...]

Asides

• Major hat-tip goes out to Reuben for his tidy html work on these changes to our blog. Thanks mate. Now you can see a few more posts on the front page. Let us know how you like the changes.

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• Phillip makes some comments on Mark Driscoll’s visit and ‘18 Points’. I think he’s right on the money. We are blessed to have him as our Dean.

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• Note to the sales guys who work near me: if you have a love of death metal/punk/gansta rap music, please do not share that love with the entire floor of the building. Everyone is annoyed, but no one wants to be the geek who says, “can you please turn it down?” Just waiting until someone cracks…

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• Gianna Jessen survived a saline abortion which happened when she was seven months in-utereo. Here she tells her story. It’s an amazing one, as is her faith in Jesus.

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• Finally bought All Mankind’s album ‘Puzzles’ on-line today. I really enjoyed their gig a few months back - hopefully the album is as good.

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