Angels watching over me…

Firstly, my apologies for getting an Amy Grant song stuck in your head.
I read this news story today with interest.
Pregnant woman uses train toilet, baby slips outAHMEDABAD, IndiaA newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave [...]

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Non-canon-isms Part The Fifth

It’s been a while, but I was just reading the tiny Epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans and I liked its re-affirmation that salvation absolutely must include works.
This is one of the non-canonical books that I do actually accept as part of the Bible. The reason for this is the cross-reference between Laodiceans and [...]

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A word from Bob

What good am I if I’m like all the rest,If I just turned away, when I see how you’re dressed,If I shut myself off so I can’t hear you cry,What good am I?
What good am I if I know and don’t do,If I see and don’t say, if I look right through you,If I turn [...]

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Do Love

I’ve been thinking about this little tiny sentence in light of my recent post about social justice.
It’s one of those profound sentences that says truckloads in two words – a bit like “Jesus wept”.
Do love. It’s an action sentence. You have to do something about it. It speaks of the social justice kind [...]

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My absence

Sorry for my MIA status at the moment. I’m just logged in for a few minutes to let you all know that I’m still alive (barely) .
Actually, I’ve had the flu for five days and I’m just on my way back to recovery now. I quickly skimmed your messages and I can’t [...]

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Sorry

My estimation of our new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is continuing to rise. Today he did what past governments have refused to do. He has said sorry.
It doesn’t sound that difficult, really, to make a simple apology. But the terror struck in the hearts of former leadership comes from the possible monetary [...]

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Our Social Justice God

Deuteronomy 10:17-21
For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords. He is the great God, the mighty and awesome God, who shows no partiality and cannot be bribed. He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice. He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and [...]

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Whew!

Hi, all!
Well, we are back, after a minor delay at the airport because of bad weather.
We all had a fantastic, restful holiday. Well, as restful as a holiday with nine and seven year olds can get. We saw crocodiles up close, went to see caves, went to the beaches, swam daily in a [...]

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Bon Voyage to Us!

This will be my last blog post for a little over a week. Our family is going to board a plane tomorrow afternoon, and between now and then there is packing, followed by more packing, followed by sleeping, followed by breakfast church (I LOVE the idea of brekky at church) followed by lunch – [...]

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