Posted in productivity, thoughts on Mar 14th, 2008
I’ve often wondered about the relationship between the secular study of behaviour and conditioning on the one hand, and the work of the Spirit in shaping us on the other.
Self-control is an example of something that it seems you can train yourself into, using certain techniques. We know that God uses all kinds of [...]
I’m talking about Tech Lust. It’s insidious.
Phillip Jensen spoke this week at KYLC on various -isms, one of which was materialism (I’m missing tomorrow’s talk on consumerism, which is a real shame). He pointed out how thoroughly materialist (in both the philosophical and economic senses) our society is. It’s so much a part of [...]
… going to a shopping centre, around this time of year, and striking out on everything you were hoping to get. Borders doesn’t have this, Myer doesn’t have that, Howard’s Storage World is still a royal rip. I wonder whether a good part of one’s day, in hell, consists of long, fruitless pacing of a [...]
Posted in christianity, thoughts on Nov 26th, 2007
Okay, I realise I’m a week late on this, but it’s good stuff, and many may have missed Mark’s thinking.
Mark is a former student and lecturer of Moore College, currently studying for his Ph D. at Oxford. He’s a smart cookie and he learned me some good doctrine and church history before he [...]
TED is an annual conference in California for leading industry people in tech and design (mainly).* It’s a fascinating look into the lives of people who are using their skills (sometimes very esoteric ones) to contribute to humanity.
Sometimes the contribution is profound and global. One of the contributors this year was Hans Rosling (blog), who [...]
Posted in thoughts on May 22nd, 2007
Dawkins’ documentary The Root of All Evil is screening in Australia at the moment, and this short article from Alistair McGrath popped up the other day.
McGrath is evangelical Christianity’s point man in dealing with Dawkins and I’m glad he’s on it, because he can see through Dawkin’s dogma in a way that many of [...]
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless”. So writes the author of Ecclesiastes. It’s a sombre book, and pretty sobering - to put it mildly. If this was the only revelation of God’s I’d be most depressed. Maybe that’s because I live in a time where there’s so much effort made to [...]
Some interesting things I’ve stumbled upon in the last few days…
Eins: Apparently Evel Knievel has become a follower of Jesus Christ. After he told everyone at Crystal Cathedral, Orange Country, California, that he’d turned to the Lord, there were mass baptisms - five pastors were baptising as fast as they could and it took them [...]
Posted in thoughts on Mar 19th, 2007
Any one of my family members can testify to the fact that I am a pretty forgetful person (except Cordelia, since she can’t speak yet). I don’t have a fabulous memory. I have an ability to forget big things (birthdays - sorry mum), and small (to buy toilet paper - sorry Ben). Luckily, there’s [...]
Posted in thoughts on Dec 11th, 2006
It’s not surprising that in my new role as mum I am drawn to notice all things about motherhood and mothering. From kids clothes to books to other mothers in the supermarket. Recently, a book review from the Spectrum section of the Sydney Morning Herald, 2nd December 2006, caught my eye.
The review of Arlington [...]
Posted in thoughts on Dec 21st, 2005
It really is.
We’ve been pretty flat chat at church with all our Christmas stuff happening. It’s just the easiest time to invite people to church - people know they should be thinking about Jesus for at least 10 seconds.
We bought a wedding present for some friends at the new Mansours shop in Gladesville the [...]
