This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done ( Read more... )

I have spent a large portion of the day working on a report on Spanish-speaking people in Sydney and the Illawarra. Now I am breaking for lunch - a very appropriate meal of leftover paella ( Read more... )

Dr Cox: That was a coincidence ( Read more... )

Shepherd is the Lamb - O.C. Supertones

So what becomes of those
small unwanted souls
Who spend their lives breaking their backs?
Those who dig the gold
for the rich and powerful
Who place their feet upon their necks?

I have owned a copy of this song for many years but only recently took the time to listen carefully to its lyrics.

The Shepherd ( Read more... )

Regarding the multitude of Christian conferences that I attend, I usually try to keep the livejournal record concise, cause I'm concerned about boring people, especially people who have never been on one before. But summer school has been way too awesome to say nothing. So here follows a short series of posts and comments about random things that ( Read more... )

I was off work sick yesterday with a headache exacerbated by allergies. In the morning it was a relief to stay home, but by the afternoon I was missing it and ready to go back ( Read more... )

This post is not very well structured ( Read more... )

Church tonight featured a sermon on something from the start of 1 Corinthians. Check this out:

1 Corinthians 1:22-25 ( Read more... )

"Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
-Peter, quoted in Acts 2:36
I don't know if I have even written this here, but I have been going along to a book club at uni and we have been reading (or skim reading on my part) a fantastic book called "The ( Read more... )

Isaiah 9:1-7
To Us a Child Is BornNevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan ( Read more... )