Last night at around 8.45pm the room I was sitting in shook.
‘Weird’ I thought, and went on reading my book.
30km away a meteorite hit the earth…
Thank God for 30km…
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Monthly Archives: December 2005
A New Sermon!
Its not often I write a new sermon these days. Its easy when you preach around the to shake up a few old ones and get some fizz back in them. But it is also lazy and even I get bored with the after a while, especially when the stories aren’t current.
Today I was preaching at Katanning Baptist and the topic was ‘the power of consistent, compelling, subversive goodness’, a look at mission thru good deeds.
I think it was an average sermon, but it was nice to create something new!
Nguyen Execution
A few thoughts from the last week…
I believe the death penalty is always wrong. I am not in favour of capital punishment.
I believe if you enter a country that still imposes the death penalty on drug traffickers and then try to smuggle drugs then you have to suffer the consequences. You are a fool.
I believe the idea of a minute’s silence for a convicted criminal is absurd. Who thought of it?
I believe Singapore stuffed it up by not allowing real contact between mother and son on the day of his death. That is really poor form.
I believe this is another example of where media attention has caused us to pay attention to one person’s plight when millions of others suffer also. Why Nguyen?… Is he really any more newsworthy than other folks?…
My Sister’s Keeper
This is a great novel by Jodi Picoult.
I was reading Transforming Mission by David Bosch and although I was enjoying it, was going slow. I picked up this novel for a change and read it in a day.
Its an interesting ethical story about a 13 year old girl who was ‘genetically engineered’ by her parents as a bone marrow/kidney donor for her sister with leukemia. She struggles to have a life of her own as a result and ends up suing her parents for rights to her own body. It raises some great questions about how far we go to save life.
Its a great novel for the world we are creating!
I am now onto The First Casualty by Ben Elton – also a novel with ethical implications and it looks like a good one too.
Perfect right handers
Wouldn’t believe it!
Today we left Margaret River after 5 really relaxing days (the kids next door were great) and while I was going for a walk this morning I noticed the river had broken into the ocean and created a magical little sandbank that was throwing up a perfect right hander… and there was no one out.
And I didn’t bring my board… and was left to watch it peel thru unsurfed.
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