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Waiting in quarantine

Waiting in quarantine

I am still stuck within the confines of my apartment. Cases of COVID-19 are still rising in our area and we do not have the required hospital capacity to handle a huge surge in cases. So, like the rest of the world, I am waiting..

  • On our way back to the future again

    As I write this, New Zealand has just shifted from Level 3 down to Level 2, in our 4-Level Alert Plan for combating Covid-19.

  • The perfect timing

    People often say, “The key to success is to be in the right place at the right time.”

  • Birthdays  -  important to us all

    Covid 19 has deemed birthdays more readily acknowledged. When is your birthday? Do you recall the birth dates of your spouse, siblings, grand parents, children, friends – what about your Minister / Pastor.

  • Let it Go

    ‘Let it go!’ – of course, it’s the Frozen movie anthem, but it’s also a great line from the iconic the Vogel’s bread advert ‘New Zealanders overseas’: ‘It was a year ago, okay Michael? Let it go!’

  • Survival of the fittest

    In the avalanche of articles about the Coronavirus, from time to time, an article surfaces regarding the sacrifices of younger people for older more vulnerable people.

  • Sport is theatre as is politics

    Earlier this year there were political spills  -  the National Party Members of Parliament decided to keep their leader and not bring back a previous one. It was all over the news and commentary aplenty.

  • Who are the fattest people – NZ on the top list

    Not that long back the New Zealand Herald revealed New Zealand was named the ‘fourth-fattest’ country in the OECD, behind the United States, Mexico and Hungary.

  • Eyam – the ‘plague village’

    We’ve become familiar with words such as ‘lockdown’, ‘social distancing’, ‘self-isolation’ and ‘quarantine’ in these days of Covid-19.

  • The centrality of the end

    I must confess, this is the first time I have ever looked at end time theology and it is amazing! Apart from being completely blown away by how little I know the Word, the corona virus has brought with it a fresh eschatological wind by which the Spirit of God has allowed the development of a holy curiosity and a deep stirring to understand the times in which we live.

  • Knowing valuable information

    Finding out information that is valuable opens our eyes to many possibilities; new possibilities that we didn't see before. Either, we see a way of attempting something we thought we couldn't do or, we discover something very useful to us that we didn't even know existed.

  • The essence of End Times?

    This is a series I have written previously in various formats. These are important for young Christians. End Times is one of five great theological themes presented squarely in the Scriptures and to explain and display them in such a way that an ordinary person might exclaim, “hey, I understand that”!