hungry?
Friday, February 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Jesus’ sermon on the mount is full of meaty stuff. I’m sure many Christians could regurgitate much of it on cue. Check out Matthew 6:2 ‘So when you give to the needy…’, which is echoed in 6:5 ‘And when you ...
the continuing problem with sport…
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »After a weekend of Sportsfesting, Jono Palmer continues... It is only through the Gospel that all people – including sportsmen and sportswomen – can be redeemed. When we understand the Gospel we realise that it is God who gives us our ...
the problem with sport…
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »(Jonathan Palmer, possibly the most sporty guy at Unichurch, explains) … is that referees are biased. And the AFL is not international. And water polo doesn’t get enough coverage. Rico Tice, Associate Minister at All Souls Church in London also had ...
different…but the same
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Last weekend I went on a Missions Interlink Short Term (MIST) training weekend, which included all sorts of stuff about cross-cultural ministry. The main message, I think, was that it's hard! That didn't come as that much of a shock, ...
challenge
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Last weekend a couple of car loads of food, a whole stack of sleeping bags, approximately 60 adult people and two interstate speakers headed an hour North-west and spent a weekend together. It all looked pretty unexciting from the outside, ...
Codex Sinaiticus
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in Books, History, Online resources | No Comments »This is going to make me sound super-nerdy, but I found this cool website the other day. In 1844 a guy called Constatin von Tischendorf found a 4thC copy of the entire Bible in a monastery in Sinai. Since then it ...
One for the ladies
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »As much as I'm embarrassed to admit I know this, Britney, the Pussycat Dolls and Rhianna all have something to say about both being single and not being single. Funnily enough, so do the Kings of Leon, Beyonce and The ...
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 ...
